File: Controversial Israeli Politician Tommy Lapid Dead At 77

JERUSALEM, ISRAEL - JANUARY 26: Israeli Shinui Party leader Yosef "Tommy" Lapid campaigns along Jerusalem's pedestrian street Ben Yehuda as part of his build-up to the upcoming elections January 26, 2003 in Jerusalem, Israel. Former Israeli minister and journalist Yosef (Tommy) Lapid died of cancer early Sunday June 1, 2008 in Tel Aviv, at the age of 77. Lapid, a Holocaust survivor, headed the liberal Shinui Party which sought to curb the growing political power of the ultra-Orthodox Jewsih parties and served in the government of Ariel Sharon as justice minister and deputy prime minister. (Photo by Quique Kierszenbaum/Getty Images)