Israel’s veteran leader, Benjamin Netanyahu has served as the country’s prime minister longer than anyone else. He’s governed on and off for 15 years and has now made a dramatic return to power for a record third time. This time with the help of Israel’s ultra-nationalists.
He now heads one of the most right-wing governments in Israeli history. What has made King ‘Bibi’ politically invincible and what does his return aided by the religious far right mean for Israel and the Middle East?
Listen to the program with
- Ayala Panievsky, Gates Cambridge scholar, former journalist Haaretz newspaper and research associate at ‘Molad’, The Centre for the Renewal of Israeli Democracy
- Mitchell Barak, former aide to Benjamin Netanyahu and political analyst
- Dave Sharma, Australia’s former Ambassador to Israel
presented by Hamish Macdonald on ABC RN Radio.