JERUSALEM — It was Sunday, May 30, and Benjamin Netanyahu appeared on television looking flushed, grasping for words and losing his temper.
The Israeli premier’s ex-protege, Naftali Bennett, had just announced he would join the “change” coalition aimed at felling Netanyahu after 12 straight years in power.
In less than half an hour, the political strongman dubbed “King Bibi” by his Likud party supporters would see his kingdom start to crumble.
The change was swift, said Ben Caspit, a political commentator who wrote the biography “The Netanyahu Years”.
“For decades, he’s nurtured his image with a lot of class. He’s really an Ivy League politician, with the language, with …
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