This is a video about the recent elections that took place in Israel. Yair Lapid is a political newcomer, he was a former television journalist. He found a new centrist party called "Yesh Atid" (There's a Future). the move was aimed to coincide with the general expectation in Israel for early elections held in the early fall of 2012. He has been working on this party for about a year. Every one thought he would get about 10 or 12 seat in parliament and he ended up with 19, which is the second largest party in the government. While Prime Minister Netenyahu go only 31 seats in parliament. He has a real influence on the agenda, if not the outcome of the policy changes.
His main was to appeal to middle class citizens about housing prices, gas prices, education and so on and the need to incorporate the ultra orthodox in to society and in to the work force, the army and to pay taxes because he knows that that is what the middle class israeli's are most worries about. he spoke directly to those concerns.He is a personable person, popular from television, good looking and a well known celebrity among the Israeli people.
This was the first election that was not all about the concerning external challenges in Israel. The people have become very disillusioned with the prospect of making peace with Palestine and are scared about the changes around them. The are looking more at the domestic issues that are at hand.
Lapid made it clear that he wasn't running for Prime Mister because he new that Netenyahu would be reelected for a third term. People see Israel politics moving in a more "normal" direction as we might call it here in the United States regarding "pocketbook issues". The people of Israel are scared and concerned but Netenyahu has done a good job of keeping people safe in Israel and he is trying to build up a wall between Palestine and Israel's west bank which has basically stopped terrorism. the people are ready to focus on something else right now. Netenyahu says he plans to work closely with Lapid and plans to incorporate most of what Lapid is driving for, however there is still speculation of rouge times ahead due to the split in parliament.
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