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The Finance Ministry does not have to be Yesh Atid leader Yair Lapid’s political burial ground. As opposed to his predecessor Yuval Steinitz, Lapid assumes his post with significant independent political power.
The 19 mandates Lapid received in the elections allow the “rising star of the middle class" to assume his post from a position of strength and conduct himself confidently with the Treasury officials and the prime minister — who in effect was the one who ran the Finance Ministry over the past four years.
