Lihya Lapid, the wife of Prime Minister Yair Lapid, was interviewed yesterday by several media outlets, and during an interview with News 13 she was asked about her husband’s military service. Lihya began to reply, stuttering, that her husband served in the anti-aircraft unit and abandoned the interview in front of the cameras. Tonight (Wednesday) an interview with the Prime Minister will be broadcast on News 13, in which he talked about his military service and defended his wife.
“I served in the camp, three years in the IDF. Anyone who wants to know what I did in the army should go to the archives in the camp, look at what I did in the IDF and after that I did the reserves – that’s where I met my wife,” said Lapid.
About Lehia he said: “She is a lioness and a fighter, I’m not sure it’s a great journalistic achievement to make my wife cry.” Regarding the abandonment of the interview on her part, he explained: “She came for an interview about the Paralympics, a topic that is close to her heart, and then she was asked a lot of questions about Sara Netanyahu. Lehya never says a bad word about anyone, she didn’t want to hurt anyone. Sara did nothing wrong Neither for Leah nor for me, so she, tears came to her eyes and left, returned home still with tears in her eyes.”
The interview that Lehya Lapid abandoned:
You also don’t know where your spouse (Lapid) served in the army?pic.twitter.com/VPhHD07tTT
— Gaius (@il7217) October 25, 2022
We note that in Lapid’s Wikipedia entry it is written that the prime minister did most of his military service as a reporter for the newspaper “Bamhana”, between the years 1982 and 1985. “Over the years, Lapid put forward two different versions regarding the beginning of his service and the circumstances of his transfer to the ‘camp.’ In the anti-aircraft formation and the cause of the asthma attack, following which he moved to serve as a military correspondent, was exposure to haze and dust in his training.”