Incoming prime minister Yair Lapid visits the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial in Jerusalem shortly after the Knesset dispersal vote passes. He says that he visited the memorial to honor his father , who survived the Holocaust . “Immediately after the vote , I went to Yad Vashem to assure my father that I would always keep Israel strong, that it would know how to defend itself and ensure the safety of its children,” Lapid says in a statement. Lapid ’s father , Tommy , was born in Serbia but the family was captured by the Nazis and later sent to...