GRANDEUR ET DECADENCE (RAPIDE) DE YAIR LAPID, MINISTRE DES FINANCES ISRAELIEN.
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Yair Lapid is finished. Wiped out. Done for.
His popular newspaper column was called Lo Sofi ("not final"). Well, this time it is final.
His political downfall will be a protracted one, but the end is certain. Lapid and his party will go down in history as just another meteoric episode in Israel’s political history, like Yitzhak Mordechai and the Center Party, like Rafi Eitan and the Pensioners Party, and yes, of course, like Tommy Lapid (Yair Lapid’s father) and Shinui.
The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree. The fall will be painful. It could also be ugly – falls usually are ugly.
It certainly happened quickly, even compared with meteors and comets — which, as everybody knows, burn out rapidly. Just two weeks ago, after lashing out against the Haredim in his speech from the Knesset podium, Lapid soared in hypothetical polls to 29 seats.
In a poll taken this week, almost half his voters said they regretted having voted for him and would not do so again.
It’s hard to imagine that new people will be joining his party. In rough figures, that puts him at 10 seats. That figure, too, will go down, probably stabilizing at about six seats — the hard core of historic Lapidists, in other words, bourgeois Ashkenazim who abominate anyone who is not like them who they think are spoiling the country (Haredim, Arabs, Mizrahim, settlers, left-wingers, socialists).