Yair Lapid, the leader of Israel's centrist Yesh Atid party, comes out of his house on Jan. 23 in Tel Aviv to speak to the press following his unexpectedly strong showing in the country's elections. The Israeli actor, journalist, and author won 19 of 120 parliamentary seats and is expected to form a coalition government with incumbent Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. For more on the Israeli elections, see Jonathan Schanzer's analysis of why the pundits got the race wrong, Nicolas Pelham's reflection on the rise of right-wing leader Naftali Bennett, and Aaron David Miller's ideas on how Obama can work with Bibi this time around.
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