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Yair Lapid: Israel's Minister For Facebook Affairs

Israeli Finance Minister Yair Lapid is busy writing amusing feuilletons on his Facebook page, writes Mazal Mualem, revealing his lack of understanding of the true needs of the country's middle class.  
Outgoing Israeli Finance Minister Yuval Steinitz (R) sits next to incoming Finance Minister Yair Lapid during a changeover ceremony in Jerusalem March 19, 2013. Lapid, who once told Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu he didn't "know anything about economics," has a golden opportunity to push through much-needed structural reforms to lower the deficit and boost the economy. REUTERS/Ronen Zvulun (JERUSALEM - Tags: POLITICS BUSINESS) - RTR3F6R5
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“During that dinner, I was photographed again with President Barack Obama, who is 1.90 meters [6 foot, 3 inches] tall. Afterward, with Secretary of State John Kerry, who is about two meters [6 foot, 7 inches] tall. Afterward, I stood on the side with Trade and Industry Minister Naftali Bennett who, like me, doesn’t reach 1.75 meters [5 foot, 9 inches], even when standing on a footstool and wearing heels. At a certain stage, the new beauty queen, Miss Israel Titi Aynaw, approached us with a large, enchanting smile on her face; incidentally, the 1.82-meter [almost 6 foot] beauty was wearing especially high heels. 'Brother,' I whispered to Bennett, “Don’t give in. Even if she asks us, we’re not going to be photographed with her.'” 

This is a section from a Facebook post of Finance Minister Yair Lapid on March 23, including an excellent feuilleton describing his first days as minister. In that same post, Lapid describes the war of the ministers to sit next to the prime minister, in their desperate attempts to be photographed:

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