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== Biography == Lapid was born in [[Novi Sad]], [[Kingdom of Yugoslavia]] (modern-day [[Serbia]]), to a family of [[Hungarian Jews|Hungarian Jewish]] descent. His family was seized by the [[Nazis]] and deported to the [[Budapest Ghetto]]. His father, Dr. Béla (Meir) Lampel, a lawyer and Zionist leader, was deported to [[Mauthausen concentration camp]], where he was murdered. His grandmother Hermina was murdered in [[Auschwitz concentration camp|Auschwitz]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=Lapid |first=Yair |url=https://multesjovo.hu/wp-content/uploads/aitfiles/1/0/10mj_2012_1_87_106_lapid_1.pdf |title=Síron túli emlékeim |pages=90 |language=hu |trans-title=My Memories from Beyond the Grave}}</ref> Lapid and his mother were rescued by [[Raoul Wallenberg]] in [[Budapest]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.pressreader.com/israel/jerusalem-post/20160904/281908772583703|access-date=2021-03-19|title=Straight Talk|website=PressReader}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last=Baruch Tenembaum|title=Tommy Lapid|url=https://www.raoulwallenberg.net/highlights/tommy-lapid/|access-date=2021-03-19|website=The International Raoul Wallenberg Foundation|language=en-US}}</ref> They survived the war and moved to Israel in 1948<ref name="IHT-obit"/> where he worked at the Hungarian-language Israeli paper ''[[Új Kelet]]'' with [[Rudolf Kasztner]]. After serving as a radio operator in the [[Israel Defense Forces]] between 1950 and 1953, Lapid graduated with a law degree from [[Tel Aviv University]] in 1957.<ref name="IHT-obit" /> He married [[Shulamit Lapid]], an acclaimed novelist;<ref name=frommorn>[http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/israel-s-60th-anniversary-a-jew-from-morning-to-night-a-552281.html Israel's 60th Anniversary: 'A Jew from Morning to Night'], ''Der Spiegel'', 8 May 2008</ref> they had three children. Their son, [[Yair Lapid]], is the chairman of the political party [[Yesh Atid]], which became the second-biggest party in the 2013 Israeli elections, and was a columnist and television host. Yair became Prime Minister of Israel on 1 July 2022. Tommy and Shulamit's youngest daughter, Merav, is a clinical psychologist. Their elder daughter, Michal, was killed in a car accident in 1984.<ref name=frommorn/><ref>{{cite news|title=Who is Yair Lapid?|url=https://www.haaretz.com/.premium-yair-lapid-prom-king-politician-1.5269932|access-date=2021-03-19|website=Haaretz}}</ref>
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