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The 2024 Israeli Yesh Atid leadership election was held on 28 March 2024. Yair Lapid was elected as leader of Yesh Atid.
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The 2024 Israeli Yesh Atid leadership election was held on 28 March 2024. Yair Lapid was elected as leader of Yesh Atid.
A leadership election was announced in 2022, though it was cancelled after Lapid was the only candidate. [1]
In October 2023, Lapid announced that the party's first leadership primary would be held that coming December. [2] It was postponed later that month due to the Israel–Hamas war. [3]
The vote took place at the party's convention, and its electorate were the members of the party conference. [4]
Lapid won the election and retained leadership of the party by 52.5% of the vote, [8] beating Ben-Barak by 308 votes to 279, a margin of 29 votes. [8] [9]
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