Finance Minister Yair Lapid was named one of the 100 most influential people in the world by Time magazine on Thursday. The Yesh Atid chairman is the only Israeli on the list for 2013. Time wrote that Lapid "was carried into public office on the frustrations quietly accumulating in the living rooms where he was a fixture for two decades." "If the world at large views Israel through its conflict with the Palestinians, Lapid personifies the nation's determinedly inward focus," the magazine wrote. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who had already been featured in the list in previous years, was absent from this year's listing. No other leaders from the Middle East were on the list.
Yair Lapid featured in Time 100 most influential people
"If the world at large views Israel through its conflict with the Palestinians, Lapid personifies the nation's determinedly inward focus," Time magazine writes • Finance Minister Yair Lapid is the only Israeli on the list for 2013.
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