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Lapid Lost, Obama Distracts

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Gershom Gorenberg on how the Obama visit distracts from the real story in Israel: how rising political star Yair Lapid lost.

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If anyone is updating the White House's in-house guide to world etiquette, he might add that showing up in Israel during the Jews' annual Pesah-preparation madness—bollixing traffic, insisting on big important meetings—is just not done.

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