Yair Lapid stepped into the position of the prime minister of Israel at midnight Friday to head a caretaker government after the Knesset voted to dissolve itself Thursday morning.
Lapid is the 14th person to hold that office, taking over from Naftali Bennett, Israel's shortest-serving prime minister with a little over a year at the helm of the government. A snap election, Israel's fifth in just over three years, is scheduled for November 1, Israel is set to hold its fifth election in three and a half years
