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Lihi Lapid
ליהיא לפיד
Lapid in 2022
Spouse of the Prime Minister of Israel
Assumed role
1 July 2022
Prime MinisterYair Lapid
Preceded byGilat Bennett
Personal details
Born (1968-05-12) 12 May 1968 (age 56)
Arad, Israel
SpouseYair Lapid
Children2
EducationCamera Obscura School of Art [he]
Tel Aviv University
OccupationAuthor, photojournalist, columnist[citation needed]
Websitelihilapid.com

Lihi Lapid (Hebrew: ליהיא לפיד; born 1968) is an Israeli author, photojournalist, and newspaper columnist. She is an activist for people with disabilities. Her husband is the Prime Minister of Israel, Yair Lapid.

Early life and education

Born as Lihi Mann (ליהיא מן) and raised in Arad, Israel.[1] Her family is of Ashkenazi Jewish descent who hails from Poland, Germany, and Austria.[1][2] She attended Thelma Yellin High School of Arts [he], the Camera Obscura School of Art [he] and Tel Aviv University.[3][1][2]

Career

During her service in the Israel Defense Forces, Lapid was a photographer for Bamahane.[3] She was a columnist at Yedioth Ahronoth for 15 years.[4] In April 2019, after taking time off to campaign for her spouse, the newspaper would not hire her back.[5] In 2008, she authored a novel and memoir titled Women of Valor.[4][6]

Lapid is a feminist[1] and an advocate for people with disabilities. She has an autistic daughter. Lapid is president of SHEKEL, a community organization for people with special needs.[7]

Personal life

Lapid met her future spouse, Yair Lapid, while she was in the Israeli military.[1] They have a son and daughter and reside in Ramat Aviv Gimel, Tel Aviv, Israel.[3] She had two miscarriages and was on bed rest for six months before giving birth to her son.[4]

Her religious affiliation was put into question by a Messianic Judaism missionary preacher Chaim Malespin, subsequently confirmed by the anti-missionary organization Outreach Judaism, led by Rabbi Tovia Singer, who exposed that Lihi Lapid is secretly a member of the Jews for Jesus missionary cult, though Chaim Malespin later retracted his claim, at the behest of her husband, the former Prime Minister Yair Lapid, in fear of creating a political scandal and in the hope of averting an ensuing public uproar.[8] In October 2022 an empty page appeared on her website titled "Jesus is definitely on the other side" which was immediately pulled and her website disabled by her team.[9][4][10][11][12][13] A similar incident occurred in January 2022 when a web-defacement attack created a page containing Jesus in the title and gibberish in the article contents.[14]

Selected works

  • Lapid, Lihi; Tovia, Miriam; Muzeʼon le-omanut Yiśreʼelit, Ramat Gan (1994). ha-Ḳesharim. Ramat Gan: Muzeʼon le-omanut Yiśreʼelit. OCLC 34447094.
  • Lihi, Lapid (2013). Woman of Valor. Gefen. ISBN 978-965-229-640-5. OCLC 857371638.

References

  1. ^ a b c d e Sommer, Allison Kaplan (14 August 2013). "Lihi Lapid: She's no Sara Netanyahu (or Hillary Clinton, for that matter)". Haaretz. Retrieved 27 August 2021.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  2. ^ a b "Information Center for Israeli Art | The Israel Museum, Jerusalem". museum.imj.org.il. Retrieved 27 August 2021.
  3. ^ a b c "Woman of Valor: A Novel, by Lihi Lapid". Times of Israel. 18 August 2013. Retrieved 27 August 2021.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  4. ^ a b c d Kamin, Debra (18 August 2013). "America, meet the other Lapid". Times of Israel. Retrieved 27 August 2021.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  5. ^ "Yair Lapid's wife says she was fired from newspaper due to husband's career". Times of Israel. 11 May 2019. Retrieved 27 August 2021.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  6. ^ Margalit, Ruth (1 April 2014). "Lihi Lapid Discusses Her Newly-Translated Book, 'Woman of Valor,' in New York City". Tablet Magazine. Retrieved 27 August 2021.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  7. ^ Brown, Hannah (23 November 2016). "Journalist, activist Lihi Lapid named president of SHEKEL". The Jerusalem Post. Retrieved 27 August 2021.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  8. ^ Sacerdoti, Jonathan (30 October 2022). "Messianic preacher apologises for saying Israeli PM's wife is a secret messianic Jew". The Jewish Chronicle.
  9. ^ https://lihilapid.com/jesus-is-definitely-on-the-other-side/
  10. ^ https://www.hakolhayehudi.co.il/item/Jewish_identity/%D7%92%D7%99%D7%A1%D7%AA%D7%95_%D7%A9%D7%9C_%D7%99%D7%90%D7%99%D7%A8_%D7%9C%D7%A4%D7%99%D7%93_%D7%95%D7%94%D7%A7%D7%A9%D7%A8_%D7%9C%D7%99%D7%94%D7%95%D7%93%D7%99%D7%9D_%D7%94%D7%9E%D7%A9%D7%99%D7%97%D7%99%D7%99%D7%9D
  11. ^ https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FgKK3gwVQAAuan4?format=jpg
  12. ^ https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FgKK3gTWIAEqzVm?format=jpg
  13. ^ https://twitter.com/Guy_Baruch/status/1458082121067778057
  14. ^ "four Method Jesus Passes through Your own A sudden – Lihi Lapid". Archived from the original on 23 January 2022.
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