The New Yorker

The Price of Netanyahu’s Ambition

Amid war with Hamas, a hostage crisis, the devastation of Gaza, and Israel’s splintering identity, the Prime Minister seems unable to distinguish between his own interests and his country’s.

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January 14, 2024

For liberal, secular Israelis, Netanyahu has always been an object of scorn on a range of social and political issues, but now, across the ideological landscape, he stands accused of failing utterly on his promise of vigilance and security.Illustration by Andrea Ventura; Source photograph by Sean Gallup / Getty

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