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Secularist Israeli Firebrand Yosef Lapid Dies
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| Contributor | John |
| Last Edited | John Jun 07, 2008 01:59pm |
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| News Date | Saturday, May 31, 2008 07:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Yosef "Tommy" Lapid, a veteran Israeli journalist and politician who campaigned against religious controls in the Jewish state, died of cancer on Sunday. He was 77.
Riding a wave of middle-class ire at the welfare benefits and exemptions from military service enjoyed by ultra-Orthodox Jews as a costly Palestinian revolt raged, Lapid led the secularist Shinui party to major gains in a 2003 election. |
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