Is Yair Lapid a young thruster who changed the face of Israeli politics by challenging the old order, or is he a hopeless dreamer whose utopian agenda will come a cropper in the harsher realities of defending the nation state?
As the wrangling goes on this weekend to create a workable coalition government, the dapper 49-year-old from Tel Aviv is the object of some heavy-duty courting from his main rivals who need the seats and a dose of Lapid's undoubted charisma to reinforce their own ambitions.
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