The game-changing rise of Itamar Ben-Gvir
Over the past three years, Israeli voters have wearied of the endlessly repeated ritual of election campaigns. The players barely change, the messaging is identical, and the campaign strategists — who have made a fortune over the past few years — have taken to recycling campaign slogans.
But occasional developments still show that the political world hasn’t remained static, as happened last week, with Otzma Yehudit chair Itamar Ben-Gvir — once considered a marginal figure on the right — announcing an independent run for the Knesset.
Ben-Gvir has shadowed the political world since he was a teenager. In the ’90s, he was interviewed holding a Cadillac emblem stolen from Prime Minister Yitzchak Rabin’s car.
“If we can get to this emblem, we can get to Rabin,” he said then.
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