Yair Lapid reveals his positions, and stakes out a place in the political center

To the religious he acts like religion is important to him and he has even got a rabbi running as his number two. To seculars he says he wants the haredi to serve in the army and all the other anti haredi things the seculars like to hear. To voters he is trying to poach from Likud he is a tough talker and for the left the peace process is top priority and he won't join any coalition that doesn't make the peace process its priority. The man has no ideology he care only about his own career and he will join any government no matter what their policies are so long as the government pays the price he demands. With any luck Lapid and his party which is based on his celebrity will be a here today gone tomorrow one and provided he stays out the media give it 4-5 years when Lapid is no longer a household name because he is on tv and he is just another politician I imagine he will. The man cares nothing for the country, he doesn't believe in anything but himself and so is just not the kind of person who should be in the Knesset if we want serious government of the people.

He says he demands serious negotiations with the Palestinians and in the next sentence he demands "Jerusalem won't be divided" - which is guaranteed to torpedo all hypothetical negotiations. Seems to me, as an outside observer, that you're overanalyzing this. In Lapid, I see someone who wants to capitalize on his existing popularity and tells everybody what they want to hear. Little to no actual substance.

He learnt from Shai Agassi. Going into something he has no experience and curriculum in. Wants to start his political carrier as PM!!! To do it right, he would have to join an established party. Maybe succesaful in getting into the Knesseth for a couple terms and THEN go and build a party and try to get some voters to make a change. As it is he looks just like the majority of our fortysomething, just a lot of "chutzpah" and opportunism.