Yesh Atid Chairman Yair Lapid predicted on Wednesday that his party would achieve 22 seats in the next election.

Speaking during a toast in honor of Rosh Hashanah, Lapid said that in 2001, when his father, Tommy Lapid, headed the Shinui party which had six seats, “I gave him a sealed envelope and said, ‘Open it a day after the election.’ Eighteen months later, there were elections and Shinui won 15 seats. We had a party in Tel Aviv and at two in the morning we went to his house and I told him, ‘Now open the envelope.’ And he opened the envelope and inside it was written '15 seats.’"