Media Career
Lapid started out as a journalist for the Hungarian-language newspaper Új Kelet. Later, he was hired by Maariv, where he became an influential publicist, and went on to become director-general of the Israel Broadcasting Authority and chairman of the Cable TV Union. He was also the founding editor of Israeli women's magazine At, as well as a successful playwright.
In the 1990s was a regular guest on the political talk show Popolitika aired on Channel 1 which often turned into a shouting match, and later moved to a Channel 2 talk show, Politika. Lapid was awarded the Sokolow Prize, Israel's top award in journalism, in 1998, for his weekly radio show.
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