Editing Tommy Lapid (section)

== Media career ==
Lapid started out as a journalist for the Israeli Hungarian-language newspaper ''[[Új Kelet]]''.<ref name="Haaretz-obit">{{cite news |author=Asaf Carmel |date=1 June 2008 |url=http://www.haaretz.com/news/olmert-pays-tribute-to-yosef-lapid-calling-him-a-jew-through-and-through-1.246992 |title=Olmert pays tribute to Yosef Lapid calling him a 'Jew through and through' |newspaper=Haaretz |access-date=8 January 2014}}</ref> Later, he was hired by the mainstream daily ''[[Maariv (newspaper)|Maariv]],'' where he became an influential publicist, and went on to become director-general of the [[Israel Broadcasting Authority]] and chairman of the Cable TV Union. He was also the founding editor of Israeli women's magazine ''At'', as well as a successful playwright.

In the 1990s Lapid was a regular guest on the political talk show ''Popolitika'' aired on [[Channel 1 (Israel)|Channel 1]] which often turned into a shouting match; later on he moved to the [[Channel 2 (Israel)|Channel 2]] talk show, ''Politika''.

In October 1994, on a [[Canada AM]] TV show interview with ex-Mossad agent [[Victor Ostrovsky]], journalist [[Valerie Pringle]] spoke by phone with Lapid regarding recent inflammatory comments he had made on Popolitika regarding Ostrovsky and his latest book, "[[The Other Side of Deception]]." Lapid reiterated his earlier comments that he felt Ostrovsky was a traitor to Israel and hoped that "there will be a decent Jew in Canada who can assassinate him for us."<ref>{{Cite book|last=Atzmon|first=Gilad|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rTbtBAAAQBAJ&dq=valerie+pringle+Yosef+Lapid&pg=PT19|access-date=2023-11-22|title=The Wandering Who: A Study of Jewish Identity Politics|date=Sep 30, 2011|publisher=John Hunt Publishing|isbn=9781846948763 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.wrmea.org/1995-january-february/the-contrasting-media-treatment-of-israeli-and-islamic-death-threats.html|title=The Contrasting Media Treatment of Israeli and Islamic Death Threats|date=January 1995|publisher=Washington Report on Middle East Affairs}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.jta.org/archive/ex-mossad-agent-files-suit-claiming-on-air-death-plea|title=Ex-mossad Agent Files Suit, Claiming On-air Death Plea|date=February 12, 1995|publisher=Jewish Telegraphic Agency}}</ref>　

Lapid was awarded the [[Sokolov Award]], Israel's top award in journalism, in 1998, for his weekly radio show.<ref name="Haaretz-obit" />