Yesh Atid

Yesh Atid
יש עתיד‎
LeaderYair Lapid
Founded29 April 2012 (2012-04-29)
HeadquartersTel Aviv
Ideology
Political positionCentre[A]
National affiliationBlue & White
(2019–2020)
International affiliationLiberal International
Colours  Blue
  Orange
Sloganבאנו לשנות
('We are here to change')
Knesset[a]
23 / 120
Election symbol
פה‎
ف‌ه‎
[11]
Website
yeshatid.org.il
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^ A: The party has also been evaluated as centre-left[12][13][14][15][16][17] and centre-right.[18][19][20][21]

Yesh Atid (Hebrew: יֵשׁ עָתִיד, lit. 'There Is a Future') is a centrist[22][23][24] political party in Israel. It was founded in 2012 by former TV journalist Yair Lapid, the son of the former Shinui party politician and Israeli Justice Minister Tommy Lapid.

In 2013 the first election it contested in, Yesh Atid placed second, winning 19 seats in the 120-seat Knesset.[25][26] It then entered into a coalition led by the Likud party. In the 2015 election the party refused to back the Likud; after suffering a significant setback and losing seats it joined the opposition.

On 21 February 2019, Yesh Atid united with the Israel Resilience Party to form a centrist alliance named Blue and White for the upcoming election.[27][28] Yesh Atid and Telem left the alliance on 29 March 2020 and formed an independent faction in the Knesset.[29] Yesh Atid ran in the 2021 election alone and won 17 seats, the second-largest party in the Knesset, making up the largest party in Israel's governing coalition at the time, with party leader Yair Lapid serving as Prime Minister in 2022.

In the 2022 elections Yesh Atid won 24 seats, more than in any previous election, but was unable to form a government. Likud, led by Benjamin Netanyahu, formed a government, with Yesh Atid returning to opposition.

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  2. ^ "Theater Review: Israeli Stage's "The Hearing" — Academic Freedom, Under Pressure". The Arts Fuse. 27 November 2017. the centrist liberal-Zionist Yesh Atid Party
  3. ^ Galston, William A. "Yair Lapid on Israel's regional challenges: Thinking beyond the current government". Brookings.
  4. ^ "Israel's Lapid calls for two-state solution with Palestinians in UN speech • FRANCE 24 English". YouTube. France 24 English. 22 September 2022.
  5. ^ "Israeli PM Lapid backs two-state solution with Palestinians". Reuters.
  6. ^ Magid, Jacob. "Knesset votes overwhelmingly against Palestinian statehood, days before PM's US trip". The Times of Israel. ISSN 0040-7909.
  7. ^ "Israel's Knesset votes to reject Palestinian statehood". Al Jazeera.
  8. ^ Halperin, David A. (19 July 2024). "The Knesset just voted against Palestinian statehood. Here's all the ways that's bad for Israel". Jewish Telegraphic Agency.
  9. ^ Bermudez, Krystal (25 February 2025). "'The Egyptian Solution': Israeli Opposition Leader Yair Lapid Unveils Peace Plan for Gaza". FDD.
  10. ^ Tuttnauer, Or; Friedman, Avital (2020). "Unnatural partners: Coalescence in Israeli local government". Journal of Elections, Public Opinion and Parties. 30 (3): 358–378. doi:10.1080/17457289.2020.1727483. S2CID 214067041.
  11. ^ "יש עתיד בראשות יאיר לפיד". Central Election Committee for the Knesset (in Hebrew). Retrieved 14 June 2021.
  12. ^ Colin Shindler, ed. (2017). The Hebrew Republic: Israel's Return to History. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 340. ISBN 9781442265974. On the other hand, the broad centre Left of the Zionist Union, Yesh Atid and Meretz only account for another forty seats, while another thirteen represent the united Arab parties.
  13. ^ Eithan Orkibi, Manfred Gerstenfeld, ed. (2014). Israel at the Polls 2015: A Moment of Transformative Stability. Routledge. p. 86. ISBN 9781351794640. The Centre-Left party Yesh Atid placed a former ISA head at number five, while the Centre-Right Kulanu party awarded number two spot to a Major General in reserves who left the army within the last decade. This was the first time that ...
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  17. ^ Eithan Orkibi, Manfred Gerstenfeld, ed. (2018). Israel at the Polls 2015: A Moment of Transformative Stability. Routledge. p. 86. ISBN 9781351794640. ... The Centre-Left party Yesh Atid placed a former ISA head at number five, while the Centre-Right Kulanu party awarded number two spot to a Major General in reserves who left the army within the last decade. This was the first time that ...
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  23. ^ Sunil K. Choudhary (2018). The Changing Face of Parties and Party Systems: A Study of Israel and India. Springer. p. 193. ISBN 978-981-10-5175-3.
  24. ^ "Israel's fragile coalition faces early survival test". Deutsche Welle. 3 June 2021. Retrieved 18 January 2021. In the last hour before a midnight deadline expired, Yair Lapid, leader of the centrist Yesh Atid party and mandated to form a new coalition, informed Israel's President Reuven Rivlin that he had succeeded in forming a government.
  25. ^ Kershner, Isabel (23 January 2013). "Charismatic Leader Helps Israel Turn Toward the Center". The New York Times. pp. A10. Retrieved 23 January 2013.
  26. ^ "Key parties in Israeli elections". Associated Press. 22 January 2013. Archived from the original on 7 November 2014. Retrieved 14 June 2015.
  27. ^ "After marathon talks Gantz, Lapid agree party merger in challenge to Netanyahu". The Times of Israel. Retrieved 21 February 2019.
  28. ^ Staff writer. "United Gantz-Lapid party to be called 'Blue and White'; no women in top 6". The Times of Israel. Retrieved 21 February 2019.
  29. ^ Raoul Wootliff (29 March 2020). "Knesset panel okays breakup of Blue and White; Gantz keeps name". The Times of Israel. Retrieved 29 March 2020.


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