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Yair Lapid

February 2023

  • People shout slogans during a protest against the government's judicial reform bill near the Knesset in Jerusalem.

    Israel: Benjamin Netanyahu accuses protesters of ‘trampling democracy’

    PM vows to press ahead with legislation to restrict judicial powers as upwards of 100,000 protesters take to streets

January 2023

  • Crowds of protesters wave Israeli flags during a demonstration in Tel Aviv

    Huge protest in Israel over rightwing government’s judicial changes

    Estimated 100,000 people took to streets in Tel Aviv in what protesters described as ‘fight for Israel’s destiny’

November 2022

  • Yair Lapid with Naftali Bennett

    Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu comeback brings despair for leftwing parties

  • Yair Lapid says he wishes ‘Netanyahu success, for the sake of the people of Israel and the state of Israel’.

    Israel’s Yair Lapid congratulates Benjamin Netanyahu on election victory

  • Benjamin Netanyahu thanks his supporters after exit polls put him ahead

    Netanyahu thanks voters as rightwing bloc extends Israeli election lead

  • Benjamin Netanyahu, chairman of the Likud Party, and his wife, Sara, vote in Jerusalem.

    Israel election: Netanyahu may be able to build coalition with far-right allies, exit polls suggest

September 2022

  • TOPSHOT-ISRAEL-US-PALESTINIAN-CONFLICT<br>TOPSHOT - Arab demonstrators protest in front the new United States embassy in Jerusalem on May 14, 2018. The banner reads in Arabic " Jerusalem is Arab, Palestinian, Moslem, Christian". The United States moved its embassy in Israel to Jerusalem after months of global outcry, Palestinian anger and exuberant praise from Israelis over President Donald Trump's decision tossing aside decades of precedent. / AFP PHOTO / AHMAD GHARABLIAHMAD GHARABLI/AFP/Getty Images

    The Guardian view on moving the British embassy to Jerusalem: don’t do it

    Editorial: Liz Truss has promised a review, but relocating it would be shameful and stupid. That might not put off the prime minister – but it should
  • Liz Truss meets Israel’s prime minister, Yair Lapid, at the UN building in New York, on 21 September.

    Moving the British embassy to Jerusalem would be an outrage

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    Liz Truss’s pledge to Israel’s Yair Lapid to review the location has appalled the Palestinians and breaks international consensus
  • The British prime minister, Liz Truss, meets Israel’s caretaker leader, Yair Lapid

    Liz Truss could follow Trump and move UK embassy to Jerusalem

    PM considering breaking with decades of British foreign policy by relocating UK embassy in Israel

June 2022

  • Naftali Bennett

    Israel set for general election after collapse of weakened government

    Country faces fifth vote in three years after Naftali Bennett’s unruly anti-Netanyahu grouping gradually fell apart

May 2022

  • Naftali Bennett

    Putin apologises for foreign minister’s Hitler remarks, Israel says

    Naftali Bennett, says he accepted apology in phone call after Russian foreign minister claimed Hitler had Jewish origins
  • Sergei Lavrov

    Russia accuses Israel of backing ‘neo-Nazis’ in Kyiv as diplomatic row grows

    Moscow hits back at Israeli criticism of Sergei Lavrov’s claim that Adolf Hitler ‘had Jewish blood’
  • Sergei Lavrov and Yair Lapid

    Israel summons Russia envoy over minister’s Hitler comments

    Israel condemns comments by Sergei Lavrov, who said Hitler ‘had Jewish blood’ and the ‘most rabid antisemites tend to be Jews’

November 2021

  • Blonde woman smirking in front of some black railings

    Britain and Israel to sign trade and defence deal

    Pact covers Iran as well as cybersecurity, despite controversy over use of Israeli firm NSO Group’s Pegasus spyware in UK

October 2021

  • The US secretary of state, Antony Blinken, in discussions with the Israeli foreign minister, Yair Lapid.

    US and Israel exploring ‘plan B’ for if Iran does not resume nuclear talks

    Tehran is warned that the window is closing to return to negotiations and salvage 2015 nuclear deal

July 2021

  • A 2016 image of the Liberian-flagged oil tanker Mercer Street

    Israel blames Iran for attack on tanker that killed Briton and Romanian

    Israeli foreign minister contacts Dominic Raab and says ‘Iran is not just an Israeli problem’

June 2021

  • Israel’s alternate prime minister and foreign minister, Yair Lapid,

    Israeli foreign minister Yair Lapid opens embassy in Abu Dhabi

  • People wave flags and balloons

    Israeli coalition ousts Netanyahu as prime minister after 12 years

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