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Israelis returned to power a right-leaning coalition, but elevated significantly the stature of a charismatic newcomer to politics, Yair Lapid, who used an American style "optimism" tour to persuade voters that the hellish recent past in Israel is redeemable. The name of his party is Yesh Atid, which means "There Is A Future." He ran on social issues and economic justice. Lapid served in the military like other Israeli politicians but significantly is not a member of the elite Sayaret Matkal, the country's Delta Force/SEAL Team Six equivalent, which has produced many of its prime ministers and political figures and two of the three major candidates in this election. He is instead a television anchor whose experience of the world is quite different. The White House is quite happy with the return of a vibrant center-left party to Israel. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu knew he would be pressured by the right-wing coalition that includes his former chief of staff; he did not expect to be boxed in from the other direction too.

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Marc Ambinder

Marc Ambinder is TheWeek.com's editor-at-large. He is the author, with D.B. Grady, of The Command and Deep State: Inside the Government Secrecy Industry. Marc is also a contributing editor for The Atlantic and GQ. Formerly, he served as White House correspondent for National Journal, chief political consultant for CBS News, and politics editor at The Atlantic. Marc is a 2001 graduate of Harvard. He is married to Michael Park, a corporate strategy consultant, and lives in Los Angeles.