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class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Čeština</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josef_Lapid" title="Josef Lapid – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="Josef Lapid" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Deutsch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yosef_Lapid" title="Yosef Lapid – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="Yosef Lapid" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Español</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomy_Lapid" title="Tomy Lapid – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="Tomy Lapid" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" 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Georgian" lang="ka" hreflang="ka" data-title="იოსეფ ლაპიდი" data-language-autonym="ქართული" data-language-local-name="Georgian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ქართული</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lv mw-list-item"><a href="https://lv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josefs_Lapids" title="Josefs Lapids – Latvian" lang="lv" hreflang="lv" data-title="Josefs Lapids" data-language-autonym="Latviešu" data-language-local-name="Latvian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Latviešu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-arz mw-list-item"><a href="https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%85%D9%89_%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%BE%D9%8A%D8%AF" title="تومى لاپيد – Egyptian Arabic" lang="arz" hreflang="arz" data-title="تومى لاپيد" data-language-autonym="مصرى" data-language-local-name="Egyptian Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>مصرى</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nl mw-list-item"><a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tommy_Lapid" 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.infobox-table{display:table!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table>caption{display:table-caption!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table>tbody{display:table-row-group}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table tr{display:table-row!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table th,body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table td{padding-left:inherit;padding-right:inherit}}</style><table class="infobox vcard"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-above" style="font-size: 100%;"><div class="fn" style="font-size:125%;">Tommy Lapid</div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-subheader" style="font-size:125%; font-weight:bold;"><div class="nickname" lang="he"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r886047488">.mw-parser-output .nobold{font-weight:normal}</style><span class="nobold"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1241449095">.mw-parser-output .script-hebrew,.mw-parser-output .script-Hebr{font-family:"Ezra SIL SR","Ezra SIL","SBL Hebrew","Taamey Frank CLM","SBL BibLit","Taamey Ashkenaz","Frank Ruehl CLM","Keter Aram Tsova","Taamey David CLM","Keter YG","Shofar","David CLM","Hadasim CLM","Simple CLM","Nachlieli",Cardo,Alef,"Noto Serif Hebrew","Noto Sans Hebrew","David Libre",David,"Times New Roman",Gisha,Arial,FreeSerif,FreeSans}</style><span class="script-hebrew" style="font-size: 110%;" dir="rtl">טומי לפיד</span>‎</span></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="/wiki/File:Tommy_Lapid_at_Eichman_trial1961_(cropped).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1e/Tommy_Lapid_at_Eichman_trial1961_%28cropped%29.jpg/220px-Tommy_Lapid_at_Eichman_trial1961_%28cropped%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="314" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1e/Tommy_Lapid_at_Eichman_trial1961_%28cropped%29.jpg/330px-Tommy_Lapid_at_Eichman_trial1961_%28cropped%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1e/Tommy_Lapid_at_Eichman_trial1961_%28cropped%29.jpg/440px-Tommy_Lapid_at_Eichman_trial1961_%28cropped%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1143" data-file-height="1633" /></a></span><div class="infobox-caption" style="line-height:normal;padding-top:0.2em;">Lapid reporting from the <a href="/wiki/Eichmann_trial" title="Eichmann trial">Eichmann trial</a> in 1961</div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;">Ministerial roles</th><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886047488"><span class="nobold">2003–2004</span></span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Deputy_leaders_of_Israel#Deputy_Prime_Minister" class="mw-redirect" title="Deputy leaders of Israel">Deputy Prime Minister</a></td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886047488"><span class="nobold">2003–2004</span></span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Justice_Minister_of_Israel" class="mw-redirect" title="Justice Minister of Israel">Minister of Justice</a></td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;">Faction represented in the <a href="/wiki/Knesset" title="Knesset">Knesset</a></th><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886047488"><span class="nobold">1999–2006</span></span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Shinui" title="Shinui">Shinui</a></td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886047488"><span class="nobold">2006</span></span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Hetz_(political_party)" title="Hetz (political party)">Secular Faction</a></td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;">Other roles</th><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886047488"><span class="nobold">2005</span></span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Leader_of_the_Opposition_(Israel)" title="Leader of the Opposition (Israel)">Leader of the Opposition</a></td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886047488"><span class="nobold">2005</span></span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Shadow_Cabinet_of_Tommy_Lapid" title="Shadow Cabinet of Tommy Lapid">Shadow Prime Minister</a></td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886047488"><span class="nobold">2005</span></span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Shadow_Cabinet_of_Tommy_Lapid" title="Shadow Cabinet of Tommy Lapid">Shadow Vice Prime Minister</a></td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender">Personal details</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Born</th><td class="infobox-data"><div style="display:inline" class="nickname">Tomislav Lampel</div><br /><span style="display:none">(<span class="bday">1931-12-27</span>)</span>27 December 1931<br /><a href="/wiki/Novi_Sad" title="Novi Sad">Novi Sad</a>, <a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_Yugoslavia" title="Kingdom of Yugoslavia">Yugoslavia</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Died</th><td class="infobox-data">1 June 2008<span style="display:none">(2008-06-01)</span> (aged 76)<br /><a href="/wiki/Tel_Aviv" title="Tel Aviv">Tel Aviv</a>, Israel</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Spouse</th><td class="infobox-data"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1151524712">.mw-parser-output .marriage-line-margin2px{line-height:0;margin-bottom:-2px}.mw-parser-output .marriage-line-margin3px{line-height:0;margin-bottom:-3px}.mw-parser-output .marriage-display-ws{display:inline;white-space:nowrap}</style> <div class="marriage-display-ws"><div style="display:inline-block;line-height:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Shulamit_Lapid" title="Shulamit Lapid">Shulamit Giladi</a></div> <div style="display:inline-block;">​</div>(<abbr title="married">m.</abbr> 1959)<wbr />​</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Children</th><td class="infobox-data">3, including <a href="/wiki/Yair_Lapid" title="Yair Lapid">Yair</a></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-below" style="border-top: 1px solid right;"><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Joseph</b> "<b>Tommy</b>" <b>Lapid</b> (<a href="/wiki/Hebrew_language" title="Hebrew language">Hebrew</a>: <span lang="he" dir="rtl">יוסף "טומי" לפיד</span>; born <b>Tomislav Lampel</b> [<a href="/wiki/Serbian_Cyrillic_alphabet" title="Serbian Cyrillic alphabet">Serbian Cyrillic</a>: <span lang="sr-Cyrl">Томислав Лампел</span>]; 27 December 1931 – 1 June 2008) was a <a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_Yugoslavia" title="Kingdom of Yugoslavia">Yugoslav</a>-born Israeli radio and television presenter, playwright, journalist, politician and <a href="/wiki/Cabinet_of_Israel" title="Cabinet of Israel">government minister</a> known for his sharp tongue and acerbic wit.<sup id="cite_ref-IHT-obit_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-IHT-obit-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Lapid headed the secular-liberal <a href="/wiki/Shinui" title="Shinui">Shinui</a> party from 1999 to 2006. He fiercely opposed the <a href="/wiki/Haredi_Judaism" title="Haredi Judaism">ultra-Orthodox</a> political parties and actively sought to exclude any religious observance from the legal structure of the Israeli State.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He was the father of <a href="/wiki/Yair_Lapid" title="Yair Lapid">Yair Lapid</a>, who served as the 14th <a href="/wiki/Prime_Minister_of_Israel" title="Prime Minister of Israel">Prime Minister of Israel</a> in 2022. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Biography">Biography</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Tommy_Lapid&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Biography"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Lapid was born in <a href="/wiki/Novi_Sad" title="Novi Sad">Novi Sad</a>, <a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_Yugoslavia" title="Kingdom of Yugoslavia">Kingdom of Yugoslavia</a> (modern-day <a href="/wiki/Serbia" title="Serbia">Serbia</a>), to a family of <a href="/wiki/Hungarian_Jews" class="mw-redirect" title="Hungarian Jews">Hungarian Jewish</a> descent. His family was seized by the <a href="/wiki/Nazis" class="mw-redirect" title="Nazis">Nazis</a> and deported to the <a href="/wiki/Budapest_Ghetto" title="Budapest Ghetto">Budapest Ghetto</a>. His father, Dr. Bela (Meir) Lampel, a lawyer and Zionist leader, was deported to <a href="/wiki/Mauthausen_concentration_camp" title="Mauthausen concentration camp">Mauthausen concentration camp</a>, where he was murdered. His grandmother Hermione was murdered in <a href="/wiki/Auschwitz_concentration_camp" title="Auschwitz concentration camp">Auschwitz</a>. Lapid and his mother were rescued by <a href="/wiki/Raoul_Wallenberg" title="Raoul Wallenberg">Raoul Wallenberg</a> in <a href="/wiki/Budapest" title="Budapest">Budapest</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> They survived the war and moved to Israel in 1948<sup id="cite_ref-IHT-obit_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-IHT-obit-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> where he worked at the Hungarian-language Israeli paper <i><a href="/wiki/%C3%9Aj_Kelet" title="Új Kelet">Új Kelet</a></i> with <a href="/wiki/Rudolf_Kasztner" class="mw-redirect" title="Rudolf Kasztner">Rudolf Kasztner</a>. After serving as a radio operator in the <a href="/wiki/Israel_Defense_Forces" title="Israel Defense Forces">Israel Defense Forces</a> between 1950 and 1953, Lapid graduated with a law degree from <a href="/wiki/Tel_Aviv_University" title="Tel Aviv University">Tel Aviv University</a> in 1957.<sup id="cite_ref-IHT-obit_1-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-IHT-obit-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He married <a href="/wiki/Shulamit_Lapid" title="Shulamit Lapid">Shulamit Lapid</a>, an acclaimed novelist;<sup id="cite_ref-frommorn_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-frommorn-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> they had three children. Their son, <a href="/wiki/Yair_Lapid" title="Yair Lapid">Yair Lapid</a>, is the chairman of the political party <a href="/wiki/Yesh_Atid" title="Yesh Atid">Yesh Atid</a>, which became the second-biggest party in the 2013 Israeli elections, and was a columnist and television host. Yair became Prime Minister of Israel on 1 July 2022. Tommy and Shulamit's youngest daughter, Merav, is a clinical psychologist. Their elder daughter, Michal, was killed in a car accident in 1984.<sup id="cite_ref-frommorn_5-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-frommorn-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Media_career">Media career</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Tommy_Lapid&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Media career"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Lapid started out as a journalist for the Israeli Hungarian-language newspaper <i><a href="/wiki/%C3%9Aj_Kelet" title="Új Kelet">Új Kelet</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-Haaretz-obit_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Haaretz-obit-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Later, he was hired by the mainstream daily <i><a href="/wiki/Maariv_(newspaper)" title="Maariv (newspaper)">Maariv</a>,</i> where he became an influential publicist, and went on to become director-general of the <a href="/wiki/Israel_Broadcasting_Authority" title="Israel Broadcasting Authority">Israel Broadcasting Authority</a> and chairman of the Cable TV Union. He was also the founding editor of Israeli women's magazine <i>At</i>, as well as a successful playwright. </p><p>In the 1990s Lapid was a regular guest on the political talk show <i>Popolitika</i> aired on <a href="/wiki/Channel_1_(Israel)" title="Channel 1 (Israel)">Channel 1</a> which often turned into a shouting match; later on he moved to the <a href="/wiki/Channel_2_(Israel)" title="Channel 2 (Israel)">Channel 2</a> talk show, <i>Politika</i>. </p><p>In October 1994, on a <a href="/wiki/Canada_AM" title="Canada AM">Canada AM</a> TV show interview with ex-Mossad agent <a href="/wiki/Victor_Ostrovsky" title="Victor Ostrovsky">Victor Ostrovsky</a>, journalist <a href="/wiki/Valerie_Pringle" title="Valerie Pringle">Valerie Pringle</a> spoke by phone with Lapid regarding recent inflammatory comments he had made on Popolitika regarding Ostrovsky and his latest book, "<a href="/wiki/The_Other_Side_of_Deception" title="The Other Side of Deception">The Other Side of Deception</a>." Lapid reiterated his earlier comments that he felt Ostrovsky was a traitor to Israel and hoped that "there will be a decent Jew in Canada who can assassinate him for us."<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Lapid was awarded the <a href="/wiki/Sokolov_Award" title="Sokolov Award">Sokolov Award</a>, Israel's top award in journalism, in 1998, for his weekly radio show.<sup id="cite_ref-Haaretz-obit_7-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Haaretz-obit-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Political_career">Political career</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Tommy_Lapid&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Political career"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In the late 1990s, Lapid joined <a href="/wiki/Avraham_Poraz" title="Avraham Poraz">Avraham Poraz</a>'s Shinui party, which boosted the party's standing in the Israeli political scene. Lapid became party chairman and Shinui won six seats in the <a href="/wiki/1999_Israeli_legislative_election" class="mw-redirect" title="1999 Israeli legislative election">1999 elections</a>, with Lapid entering the Knesset for the first time. In the <a href="/wiki/2003_Israeli_legislative_election" title="2003 Israeli legislative election">2003 elections</a> the party ran on a secularist platform and won 15 seats, making it the third-largest in the Knesset after <a href="/wiki/Likud" title="Likud">Likud</a> and <a href="/wiki/Labor_Party_(Israel)" class="mw-redirect" title="Labor Party (Israel)">Labour</a>. Shinui was invited to join the government of <a href="/wiki/Ariel_Sharon" title="Ariel Sharon">Ariel Sharon</a> and Lapid was appointed <a href="/wiki/Deputy_leaders_of_Israel#Deputy_Prime_Minister" class="mw-redirect" title="Deputy leaders of Israel">Deputy Prime Minister</a> and <a href="/wiki/Justice_Minister_of_Israel" class="mw-redirect" title="Justice Minister of Israel">Minister of Justice</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-IHT-obit_1-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-IHT-obit-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>It was suggested that Israel's pro-Serbian position in 1999, was a result of the Serbian population's history of saving Jews during the <a href="/wiki/The_Holocaust_in_Serbia" class="mw-redirect" title="The Holocaust in Serbia">Holocaust</a>, personal memories of which were still present among older Israeli politicians, such as Lapid, serving in government at the time.<sup id="cite_ref-haaretz.com_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-haaretz.com-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Between 2001 and 2006, Lapid, via a bill passed by the Knesset, established the commission of "Future Generations", headed by retired judge <a href="/wiki/Shlomo_Shoham" title="Shlomo Shoham">Shlomo Shoham</a>, an office that was later closed down by a bill passed by then Knesset member and Chairman of the Knesset Committee, <a href="/wiki/Yariv_Levin" title="Yariv Levin">Yariv Levin</a>, on the grounds that the commission was a "big malfunction" in which "a commissioner sits above us while we're the elected officials. Apparently, this commissioner was granted the 'prophecy' that he knows what is best for future generations." In a rebuttal, Shoham stated that "the Chairman of the Knesset Committee does not understand the essence of the position of "Commissioner of Future Generations" within the checks and balances of democracy."<sup id="cite_ref-the-marker-december-2010_12-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-the-marker-december-2010-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The tension between Shinui and Likud grew when the ultra-Orthodox party <a href="/wiki/Agudat_Yisrael" title="Agudat Yisrael">Agudat Yisrael</a> was brought into the coalition. Shinui could not implement many of its electoral promises, such as <a href="/wiki/Civil_marriage_in_Israel" class="mw-redirect" title="Civil marriage in Israel">instituting civil marriage</a>, and a dispute erupted over state aid to religious institutions. As a result, Shinui quit the coalition in December 2004. Lapid announced the formation of a <a href="/wiki/Shadow_Cabinet_of_Tommy_Lapid" title="Shadow Cabinet of Tommy Lapid">Shadow Cabinet</a> based on the British model on 3 January 2005, before being appointed <a href="/wiki/Leader_of_the_Opposition_(Israel)" title="Leader of the Opposition (Israel)">Leader of the Opposition</a> a week later. In late March 2005, Lapid voted in favor of the budget in exchange for minor concessions in order to keep the government from falling, which was liable to lead to early elections and impede the implementation of the <a href="/wiki/Israel%27s_unilateral_disengagement_plan" class="mw-redirect" title="Israel's unilateral disengagement plan">disengagement plan</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In Shinui's primary elections held shortly before the <a href="/wiki/2006_Israeli_legislative_election" title="2006 Israeli legislative election">2006 elections</a>, Lapid retained the party leadership. However, his deputy Poraz lost second place on the list.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In the ensuing crisis, Poraz and several other Shinui MKs left the party and founded <a href="/wiki/Hetz_(political_party)" title="Hetz (political party)">Hetz</a>.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (April 2010)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> Lapid left Shinui two weeks after the vote and announced his support for Poraz's new party,<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> but chose not to be involved in the new party's leadership, instead of serving as a figurehead. In the elections, he was allocated the symbolic 120th place on the Hetz list, but the party failed to win a seat. <sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (April 2010)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Non-political_activities">Non-political activities</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Tommy_Lapid&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Non-political activities"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:President_George_W._Bush_pauses_to_pay_respects_in_the_Hall_of_Remembrance.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/66/President_George_W._Bush_pauses_to_pay_respects_in_the_Hall_of_Remembrance.jpg/220px-President_George_W._Bush_pauses_to_pay_respects_in_the_Hall_of_Remembrance.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/66/President_George_W._Bush_pauses_to_pay_respects_in_the_Hall_of_Remembrance.jpg/330px-President_George_W._Bush_pauses_to_pay_respects_in_the_Hall_of_Remembrance.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/66/President_George_W._Bush_pauses_to_pay_respects_in_the_Hall_of_Remembrance.jpg/440px-President_George_W._Bush_pauses_to_pay_respects_in_the_Hall_of_Remembrance.jpg 2x" data-file-width="515" data-file-height="387" /></a><figcaption>Tommy Lapid (far-left) at <a href="/wiki/Yad_Vashem" title="Yad Vashem">Yad Vashem</a> during <a href="/wiki/George_W._Bush" title="George W. Bush">George W. Bush</a>'s visit, 2008</figcaption></figure> <p>In July 2006, Lapid was appointed Advisory Board Chairman of <a href="/wiki/Yad_Vashem" title="Yad Vashem">Yad Vashem</a>, the Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance Authority, a role he called "a sacred duty".<sup id="cite_ref-IHT-obit_1-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-IHT-obit-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>He appeared on <i>Council of Wise Men</i>, an Israeli television program on <a href="/wiki/Israel_10" class="mw-redirect" title="Israel 10">Israel 10</a> channel. He hosted his own radio program on <a href="/wiki/Kol_Yisrael" title="Kol Yisrael">Reshet Bet</a>. He also was a chairman of the Israel Chess Society and served as an honorary member of the <a href="/wiki/Raoul_Wallenberg_Foundation" class="mw-redirect" title="Raoul Wallenberg Foundation">Raoul Wallenberg Foundation</a>. </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:%D7%99%D7%95%D7%A1%D7%A3_%D7%9C%D7%A4%D7%99%D7%93_%D7%A0%D7%AA%D7%A0%D7%99%D7%94.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/98/%D7%99%D7%95%D7%A1%D7%A3_%D7%9C%D7%A4%D7%99%D7%93_%D7%A0%D7%AA%D7%A0%D7%99%D7%94.jpg/220px-%D7%99%D7%95%D7%A1%D7%A3_%D7%9C%D7%A4%D7%99%D7%93_%D7%A0%D7%AA%D7%A0%D7%99%D7%94.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/98/%D7%99%D7%95%D7%A1%D7%A3_%D7%9C%D7%A4%D7%99%D7%93_%D7%A0%D7%AA%D7%A0%D7%99%D7%94.jpg/330px-%D7%99%D7%95%D7%A1%D7%A3_%D7%9C%D7%A4%D7%99%D7%93_%D7%A0%D7%AA%D7%A0%D7%99%D7%94.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/98/%D7%99%D7%95%D7%A1%D7%A3_%D7%9C%D7%A4%D7%99%D7%93_%D7%A0%D7%AA%D7%A0%D7%99%D7%94.jpg/440px-%D7%99%D7%95%D7%A1%D7%A3_%D7%9C%D7%A4%D7%99%D7%93_%D7%A0%D7%AA%D7%A0%D7%99%D7%94.jpg 2x" data-file-width="960" data-file-height="720" /></a><figcaption></figcaption></figure> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Death">Death</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Tommy_Lapid&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Death"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Lapid was hospitalized at <a href="/wiki/Tel_Aviv_Sourasky_Medical_Center" title="Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center">Ichilov Hospital</a> in <a href="/wiki/Tel_Aviv" title="Tel Aviv">Tel Aviv</a> in serious condition on 30 May 2008.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He died on 1 June 2008, aged 76, after a battle with cancer.<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Other">Other</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Tommy_Lapid&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Other"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In March 2011, street Nova 30 in <a href="/wiki/Veternik" title="Veternik">Veternik</a>, a suburb of <a href="/wiki/Novi_Sad" title="Novi Sad">Novi Sad</a>, was renamed to <i>ulica Tomija Josefa Lapida</i> (Serbian for "Tommy Joseph Lapid Street").<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Tommy_Lapid&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns 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