Lapid, Joseph

Lapid, Joseph
▪ 2009
Tomislav Lampel; “Tommy” 
      Israeli journalist and politician

born Dec. 27, 1931, Novi Sad, Yugos. [now in Serbia]

died June 1, 2008, Tel Aviv, Israel
enjoyed a successful career in journalism that spanned print media, radio, and television; he used his reputation as a journalist as a springboard into politics as a member of the secularist Shinui (“Change”) party and served (2003–04) as deputy prime minister and justice minister in a coalition government headed by Prime Minister Ariel Sharon. Joseph (or Yosef) Lapid survived World War II in the Budapest ghetto, although his father was killed in a concentration camp. After the war, he and his mother immigrated (1948) to Israel. Lapid earned a law degree (1955) from Tel Aviv University and went to work as a journalist for the newspaper Maariv, where he spent more than 20 years as a columnist, foreign correspondent, and managing editor. He was also director general (1979–84) of the Israel Broadcasting Authority, hosted My Week, a weekly Hebrew-language broadcast on Israel Radio, and in the 1990s appeared as a panelist on the current affairs television program Popolitika, on which he bluntly shared his controversial opinions. After being elected to the Knesset (parliament) in 1999, Lapid opposed the special treatment—including political, social, and financial advantages—enjoyed by the ultra-Orthodox in Israel. He returned to journalism in 2006. That same year he was appointed chairman of the board of directors of Yad Vashem, Israel's Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance Authority.

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