- Founded
- 2012
- Current leader
- Yair Lapid
- Founders
- Yair Lapid
Position — compass as of 2026-06-08
First-pass hand-coded estimate; pending second-pass external review. See methodology for the rubric.
Across the dataset
Open full comparison →Nearest
Closest by average Euclidean distance across all axes.
Most divergent
Farthest by the same metric. Useful for "anti-axis" framing.
Position — all axes
Briefs about Yesh Atid
Comparative political-science briefs pairing this party with others. 1 brief on file.
Members & affiliated figures
Politicians currently identified with this party — leaders, ministers, MPs, and other active figures. All affiliated politicians →
- Yair Lapid يائير لابيد Party leader opposition
- Adi Ezuz عيدي عزوز MP opposition
- Debbie Biton ديبي بيتون MP opposition
- Elazar Stern إلعازار شتيرن MP opposition
- Karine Elharrar كارين إلهرار MP opposition
- Matti Sarfatti Harcavi ماتي سرفاتي هركابي MP opposition
- Meir Cohen مئير كوهين MP opposition
- Meirav Cohen ميراف كوهين MP opposition
- Merav Ben Ari ميراف بن آري MP opposition
- Michal Shir Segman ميخال شير سيغمان MP opposition
- Mickey Levy ميكي ليفي MP opposition
- Moshe Turpaz موشيه تورباز MP opposition
- Naor Shiri ناؤور شيري MP opposition
- Oz Haim عوز حاييم MP opposition
- Ram Ben Barak رام بن باراك MP opposition
- Ron Katz رون كاتس MP opposition
- Shelly Tal Meron شيلي تال ميرون MP opposition
- Simon Davidson سيمون ديفيدسون MP opposition
- Tatiana Mazarsky تاتيانا مازارسكي MP opposition
- Vladimir Beliak فلاديمير بلياك MP opposition
- Yaron Levi يارون ليفي MP opposition
- Yasmin Fridman ياسمين فريدمان MP opposition
- Yoav Segalovitz يوآف سيغالوفيتش MP opposition
- Yorai Lahav Hertzanu يوراي لاهاف هرتسانو MP opposition
Recent events
Political events involving this party — formations, mergers, leadership changes, designation shifts. All events at /pulse →
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Bennett-Lapid "change government" formed
An eight-party coalition — the first to include an Arab party (Ra'am) — was sworn in on 2021-06-13, briefly displacing Netanyahu after 12 years. Bennett served as PM until June 2022 when the rotation passed to Lapid; the government fell in November 2022.
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Beyahad: Lapid–Bennett merger discussions
Reports of merger talks between Yair Lapid (Yesh Atid) and Naftali Bennett under a joint banner Beyahad (Hebrew: ביחד, "together"), aimed at consolidating the centrist anti-Netanyahu opposition ahead of the next election. Talks are ongoing and the merger has not been formalized; Bennett has not declared whether he will return to politics formally.
Source documents
Texts the scoring pipeline reads — manifestos, speeches, platforms. Each document's verbatim content backs the position score above; the model cites specific phrases from these texts when scoring. All documents →
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Party platform Hebrew 2022-09-01 מצע יש עתיד — דת ומדינה (Yesh Atid platform — Religion & State chapter)
עיצוב הזהות היהודית של המדינה צריך להיעשות מתוך מחויבות לכלל המרכיבים הקיומיים בחוסנה וביציבותה של מדינת ישראל בהווה ובעתיד – היותה יהודית, דמוקרטית, ליברלית, חזקה, מתקדמת ומשגשגת. יש עתיד מאמינה כי מדינת ישראל היא בית…
Sources
Per-field citations for the verified claims above. Other fields (notably the compass scores) remain hand-coded priors and are marked unverified until they pass the methodology pipeline — see methodology.
- founded_year en.wikipedia.org 2026-06-06 Founded January 2012 by Yair Lapid
- current_leader_text en.wikipedia.org 2026-06-06 Founder and continuous chairman; PM 2022-07-01 to 2022-12-29
- government_role en.wikipedia.org 2026-06-06 Leader of the opposition in the 25th Knesset
How to cite
Each record carries a retrieval date because the dataset is live — individual entries update as verification deepens. Use the per-record citation when referencing this specific profile; use the dataset citation below when referencing the project as a whole.
In-text: (Gara, 2026)
Per-record citation
APA 7Reference list · academic default
Gara, T. (2026). Yesh Atid [Party profile]. Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset. Retrieved June 21, 2026, from https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/p/yesh-atid
Chicago author-dateCommon in political-science journals
Gara, Tarek. 2026. "Yesh Atid." Party profile, Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset. Accessed June 21, 2026. https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/p/yesh-atid.
BibTeXFor LaTeX / Zotero / reference managers
@misc{tayyar-yesh-atid,
title = {{Yesh Atid}},
author = {Gara, Tarek},
year = {2026},
publisher = {Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset},
type = {Party profile},
url = {https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/p/yesh-atid},
urldate = {2026-06-21},
note = {First-pass entry; second-pass external review planned before publication.}
} Dataset / working-paper citation
If you're citing Tayyar as a project rather than this individual record.
APA 7Preprint
Gara, T. (2026). Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset [Preprint]. Retrieved June 21, 2026, from https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/paper
BibTeXPreprint
@unpublished{tayyar-preprint,
title = {{Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset}},
author = {Gara, Tarek},
year = {2026},
type = {Preprint},
url = {https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/paper},
urldate = {2026-06-21},
note = {Living document, regenerated from the live dataset on page load.}
} First-pass entry; second-pass external review planned before publication.