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Wide of Israeli politician and head of Yesh Atid party, Yair Lapid 2. SOUNDBITE: (English) Yair Lapid, Israeli politician and head of Yesh Atid party:\"I think it is crucial that we take the path of being part of the...\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='full-description hide'\u003e16 January 2013 \u003cbr/\u003e1. Wide of Israeli politician and head of Yesh Atid party, Yair Lapid \u003cbr/\u003e2. SOUNDBITE: (English) Yair Lapid, Israeli politician and head of Yesh Atid party:\u003cbr/\u003e\"I think it is crucial that we take the path of being part of the Western, civilised world and the international part of the international community.\"\u003cbr/\u003e(Question: How would you define the other path?) \u003cbr/\u003e\"Well, I don't want a country that is defined by religion. I don't want a country that is defined by the separation to groups and sectors.\"\u003cbr/\u003e3. Wide of Lapid \u003cbr/\u003e4. SOUNDBITE: (English) Yair Lapid, Israeli politician and head of Yesh Atid party:\u003cbr/\u003e\"I will not sit as a fig leaf of ultra-Orthodox extreme rightists government, this should be a more moderate government in order for me to join it.\"\u003cbr/\u003e5. Cutaway of hands\u003cbr/\u003e6. SOUNDBITE: (English) Yair Lapid, Israeli politician and head of Yesh Atid party: \u003cbr/\u003e\"We need to make sure the ultra-Orthodox will be drafted to the army like everybody else and then go into the employment market and work for a living. There was for a long time mathematics that made it possible for the Israeli society to support them while they were sitting in the yeshivas and study Torah, which is a beautiful thing, but we cannot support this anymore, they need to go to work.\"\u003cbr/\u003e7. Mid of Lapid \u003cbr/\u003e8. SOUNDBITE: (English) Yair Lapid, Israeli politician and head of Yesh Atid party: \u003cbr/\u003e\"I think if the prime minister really wanted to negotiate and felt that there was people to negotiate with, he would have. If an Israeli Prime Minister wants to go to the negotiating table, he will sit at the negotiating table. I think this is part of what I'm going to do is make, or try at least, try and make the next government do this because it's so essential to my mind.\"\u003cbr/\u003e9. Close of Lapid\u003cbr/\u003e10. SOUNDBITE: (English) Yair Lapid, Israeli politician and head of Yesh Atid party:\u003cbr/\u003e\"Jerusalem is not a place, Jerusalem is an idea, Jerusalem is the ethos this country was established by, and you don't, I don't think Americans would for any kind of agreement, give up Capitol Hill and I don't think Israeli should give up their own capital because this is the reason why we are here and if we have to fight for it we will fight for it. I think we can have an agreement and they will understand eventually that Jerusalem should stay Israeli because this is the foundation of our existence here.\"\u003cbr/\u003e15 January 2013 \u003cbr/\u003e11. Mid of Lapid walking up stage during rally\u003cbr/\u003e12. Wide reverse of Lapid on stage \u003cbr/\u003eLittle known outside Israel, political newcomer Yair Lapid could soon become the moderate face to the world of an otherwise hard-line government after next week's parliamentary election. \u003cbr/\u003eGamely predicting he will one day be prime minister, the cosmopolitan Lapid stands out in a political landscape crowded with ex-officers, lawyers and apparatchiks: perpetually dressed in black and coiffed in high style, he is a former TV news anchor, movie star, talk show host, novelist, newspaper columnist and amateur boxer.\u003cbr/\u003eLapid said he would not be a \"fig leaf\" in an extremist government and will make firm demands in exchange for joining, including an end to the country's preferential treatment of ultra-Orthodox Jews and the resumption of peace talks with the Palestinians.\u003cbr/\u003e\"I think it is crucial that we take the path of being part of the Western, civilised world and the international community,\" Lapid told The Associated Press. \"I don't want a country that is defined by religion. I don't want a country that is defined by the separation of groups and sectors.\"\u003cbr/\u003eThe 49-year-old Lapid was one of Israel's best-known faces, writing a popular newspaper column, in which he often discussed his wife and children and various personal matters, and hosting a top-rated weekend news program when he abruptly declared a year ago that he was entering politics.\u003cbr/\u003eDespite being the son of a former Cabinet minister and living in an exclusive Tel Aviv neighbourhood, he billed himself as an average Israeli, representing the interests of middle class people struggling to get by in a country torn by conflict and a high cost of living.\u003cbr/\u003eHis Yesh Atid party, which means 'There is a Future' in Hebrew, has grown into a formidable movement. \u003cbr/\u003eOpinion polls predict the party will win perhaps a tenth of the seats in the 120-member parliament, which could make it the fourth-largest faction. \u003cbr/\u003eBut thanks to Israel's coalition system, Lapid could end up wielding influence far beyond his party's size.\u003cbr/\u003ePrime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's faction, a union of his Likud with the even more nationalist Israel Beitenu, is poised to emerge as the largest, with over 30 seats, according to the polls. \u003cbr/\u003eTogether with his traditional allies, hard-line nationalist and religious parties, he is expected to manage a majority of at least 61 seats.\u003cbr/\u003eHowever, there is a strong sense among many Israelis that such a nationalist coalition would be disastrous for the country and that sense seems especially strong among the elites who are the natural milieu of both Lapid and Netanyahu.\u003cbr/\u003eThis has led to much speculation that after a stormy four-year tenure characterised by deadlock in Mideast peace efforts and repeated clashes with the US and other allies, Netanyahu will pursue a more centrist coalition.\u003cbr/\u003eThat has left Lapid as a potential coalition partner, putting him in a strong position to demand a high-profile Cabinet post.\u003cbr/\u003eDespite opposing stands on most issues both Netanyahu and Lapid have encouraged the speculation by openly discussing the possibility. \u003cbr/\u003eOften heard is the idea of Lapid as education minister.\u003cbr/\u003eLapid repeatedly declares his deep regret about Netanyahu's strong poll showings but tends to follow that with what has become a stock phrase of sorts: \"Let's be practical.\"\u003cbr/\u003eHe then explains how important it is to pull Netanyahu toward the centre and free him from dependence on the most extreme nationalists.\u003cbr/\u003eA similar logic applied to the other main players on the centre-left. \u003cbr/\u003eBut Labor Party leader Shelly Yachimovich recently declared she would not join Netanyahu under any circumstances, and former Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni, who has founded a new party dedicated to promoting peace with the Palestinians, has a testy relationship with the prime minister.\u003cbr/\u003eLapid could give Netanyahu an attractive new face to present to the world. \u003cbr/\u003eHe is a regular fixture on lists of Israel's sexiest men, dresses stylishly, claims to work out every day and speaks impeccable English.\u003cbr/\u003eDuring the interview in the book-lined basement study of his Tel Aviv home, he quoted Albert Einstein, Aldous Huxley's \"Brave New World\" and 'The Godfather,' and proudly displayed a pair of boxing gloves autographed by Muhammad Ali. \u003cbr/\u003eDiscussing his own crime novels, he professes his admiration for Raymond Chandler.\u003cbr/\u003eFor Lapid, a place inside the government could boost his fledgling party and provide a springboard to his larger ambition: becoming prime minister one day.\u003cbr/\u003eBut he vowed to drive a hard bargain, seeking guarantees that the new government would adopt his agenda. \"I will not sit as a fig leaf for ultra-Orthodox extreme rightists,\" he said.\u003cbr/\u003eAccomplishing this goal will not be easy, since Lapid's targets include well-entrenched interest groups aligned with Netanyahu's party, especially the country's ultra-Orthodox population.\u003cbr/\u003eMaking up roughly 10 percent of the population, the ultra-Orthodox have long used their political influence to win key benefits. \u003cbr/\u003eTens of thousands of ultra-Orthodox men receive exemptions from compulsory military service in order to pursue religious studies.\u003cbr/\u003eThese benefits continue well into adulthood, with a welfare system that allows the men to continue religious studies. \u003cbr/\u003eThese benefits have bred widespread resentment among the secular majority, which pays heavy taxes and generally serves in the military.\u003cbr/\u003eLapid called religious study a \"beautiful thing\" but said the current system is unsustainable. \"We can't support this anymore,\" he said. \"They need to go out to work.\"\u003cbr/\u003eLapid also criticised Netanyahu's failure to hold any substantive negotiations with the Palestinians.\u003cbr/\u003eThe Palestinians claim all of the West Bank and east Jerusalem, captured by Israel in the 1967 Mideast war, as parts of a future state and have refused to negotiate with Netanyahu while he continues to build Jewish settlements in the two areas. \u003cbr/\u003eNetanyahu rejects a full withdrawal from the West Bank and opposes any division of Jerusalem. \u003cbr/\u003eThe Palestinians seek the city's eastern sector, home to sensitive Jewish, Christian and Muslim holy sites, as their capital.\u003cbr/\u003eIsraeli doves like Livni say a Palestinian state is needed not only to end decades of conflict, but also to save Israel. \u003cbr/\u003eContinued control over millions of disenfranchised Palestinians, they say, could turn Israel into an apartheid-like state of a Jewish minority ruling over an Arab majority.\u003cbr/\u003eNetanyahu himself has acknowledged the need to establish a Palestinian state. \u003cbr/\u003eBut critics, 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I think this is part of what I'm going to do, make the government do this because it's so important in my mind,\" he said.\u003cbr/\u003eLapid's vision of a Palestinian state is far more generous than Netanyahu's. \u003cbr/\u003eHe favours a near-total withdrawal from the West Bank, retaining major settlement 'blocs' along the border.\u003cbr/\u003eBut on the emotional issue of Jerusalem, Lapid sides with Netanyahu, opposing any division of the holy city.\u003cbr/\u003eLapid said his late father, the former Cabinet Minister Joseph Lapid, survived the Holocaust and resettled in the holy land because of Jerusalem, saying the city \"is the reason we are here and if we have to fight for it we will fight for it.\"\u003cbr/\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003c/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class='action-container flex justify-between'\u003e\n\u003cbutton aria-expanded='false' aria-label='Read more description' class='rp-full-description' type='button'\u003e\n\u003ci class='fai fa-solid 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