He had little time to relax ahead of a busy first week that will already include a trip abroad – a visit with French President Emmanuel Macron on Tuesday.
Lapid is also preparing for a historic visit by U.S. President Joe Biden on July 13. Both of these meetings were already planned, but now they will be with Lapid, not Naftali Bennett, who stepped down at the end of the month when infighting and defections made his government unworkable.