While Netanyahu’s ultimate message is always the same, the details vary from person to person
“Half a million dollars for one lecture.” That’s the figure Binyamin Netanyahu cites when he wants to illustrate the sacrifice he’s made for turning “service to the state” into his life mission.
But several American chareidi donors and activists have received more than one free lecture from Netanyahu over the past few days, as he has drafted — or dragged — them into the Israeli election campaign.
“I felt like [Pfizer CEO] Albert Bourla during the vaccine go-round,” one of them told me, speaking of phone calls taken from Netanyahu’s office at 8 p.m. Jerusalem time.
Bourla, readers may remember, recounted how the Israeli prime minister tsheppered him to make Israel the first country to test Pfizer’s vaccine on a nationwide scale.
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