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POLITICIAN

Tommy Lapid

1931 - 2008

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Yosef "Tommy" Lapid (Hebrew: יוסף "טומי" לפיד; born Tomislav Lampel [Serbian Cyrillic: Томислав Лампел]; 27 December 1931 – 1 June 2008) was a Yugoslav-born Israeli radio and television presenter, playwright, journalist, politician and government minister known for his sharp tongue and acerbic wit. Lapid headed the secular-liberal Shinui party from 1999 to 2006. He fiercely opposed the ultra-Orthodox political parties and actively sought to exclude any religious observance from the legal structure of the Israeli State. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Tommy Lapid has received more than 167,987 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Tommy Lapid is the 9,364th most popular politician (up from 10,704th in 2019), the 135th most popular biography from Serbia (up from 152nd in 2019) and the 64th most popular Serbian Politician.

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  • 21

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Tommy Lapid ranks 9,364 out of 15,577Before him are Tassilo I of Bavaria, Iset, David Kimhi, Jaime, Duke of Braganza, Mustafa Akıncı, and Hussain Muhammad Ershad. After him are Leon Panetta, Gaius Antonius, Prince Andrew of Yugoslavia, Commius, Eriba-Adad I, and John II Orsini.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1931, Tommy Lapid ranks 184Before him are Lucian Mureșan, Takashi Ono, E. L. Doctorow, Dan Gurney, Adriana Asti, and Chuck Feeney. After him are Franco Interlenghi, Rubens de Falco, Georgy Grechko, Iajuddin Ahmed, Vizma Belševica, and Dominic Chianese. Among people deceased in 2008, Tommy Lapid ranks 115Before him are Albert Cossery, Anthony Mamo, Joseph Weizenbaum, Boris Shakhlin, Šaban Bajramović, and Lazare Ponticelli. After him are Rubens de Falco, Prince Ferdinand, Duke of Castro, Sofiko Chiaureli, Josef Tal, Andrew Bertie, and Bernie Mac.

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In Serbia

Among people born in Serbia, Tommy Lapid ranks 135 out of 564Before him are Stefan Branković (1417), Vasko Popa (1922), Momčilo Tapavica (1872), Đura Jakšić (1832), Šaban Bajramović (1936), and Lola Novaković (1935). After him are Petar Bojović (1858), Nemanja Vidić (1981), Mirko Cvetković (1950), Mihailo Petrović (1868), Aleksandar Đorđević (1967), and Momir Bulatović (1956).

Among POLITICIANS In Serbia

Among politicians born in Serbia, Tommy Lapid ranks 64Before him are Ilija Garašanin (1812), Maria of Serbia, Queen of Bosnia (1447), Milan Stojadinović (1888), Prince Tomislav of Yugoslavia (1928), Ana Brnabić (1975), and Stefan Branković (1417). After him are Mirko Cvetković (1950), Momir Bulatović (1956), Petar of Serbia (870), Stojan Protić (1857), Petar Živković (1879), and Stojan Novaković (1842).