Bibi the boss man makes a comeback
Illustration: Menachem Weinreb
AS opposition MKs tried to drown out his sixth swearing in speech with chants of “Weak, weak,” Netanyahu shot back, “Who are you to preach to us?”
He went on, “An election defeat is not the end of democracy — it’s the essence of democracy.”
If Israeli democracy could be distilled into one moment, it would be when a defeated government’s ministers vacate their seats in the plenum hall — one floor above the prime minister’s office — for their successors.
Ever since the 1995 assassination of Yitzchak Rabin, the prime minister of Israel has been one of the most well-protected people on the planet, surrounded by a screen of bodyguards and escorted by a convoy of Audi armored cars, and even a private ambulance in case of a medical emergency — a precaution adopted after the late Arik Sharon’s on-the-job stroke in 2006.
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