Yesh Atid chairman Yair Lapid was offered the position of Finance Minister in the new government but has yet to respond to the offer, an official in the Likud/Yisrael Beytenu said Tuesday.

The official said that in case Lapid rejects the offer, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu will offer him the Interior Ministry instead. In any case, however, Lapid will not be offered the position of Foreign Minister, despite his desire to be appointed to that position, because Netanyahu is saving that portfolio for Yisrael Beytenu chairman Avigdor Lieberman.