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[Door creaks]
[Footsteps]
[Indistinct conversation]
[Tense, moody music]
[Nimrod Novik, in English]Nothing concentrates the mind
like the prospect of being hanged.
With Netanyahu, nothing concentrates his mind
more than the sound
of the prison gate
slammed behind his back.
[In Hebrew]
[In English] So, everything that he has done
over the last five years
was so focused
on that sound of the gate
potentially slammed behind his back.
[Music continues; Yelling, clamour]
[Rapid gunfire]
[Novik] To fully understand the chaos in the region,
one has to look back at the Prime Minister's legal predicament.
The corruption trial became a dominant factor
in his decision-making.
The engine is the corruption cases.
And it all started with the fact that the Prime Minister
does not respect the law.
Anyone that dared to touch Mr Netanyahu
is doomed.
[Explosive boom reverberates]
[Clamour]
[Raviv Drucker] And after the catastrophe of the 7th of October,
the war became another instrument to stay in power.
[Music continues; Clamour]
[Ami Ayalon]He survive in a state of war.
He survive in a state of instability.
He survive when we fight each other.
He survive when our enemies fight each other.
[Gili Schwartz] A forever war is beneficial to Netanyahu.
This make people feel like they are always in danger,
like they always need him.
There's always some huge threat.
[Man prays in Arabic]
[Schwartz, in English] I think that that helps him remain Prime Minister.
[Music continues]
[She shouts in Arabic]
[In English] It's not a cover-up. It's not that he tried to kill evidence.
He tried to kill the system!
He took all of us hostage in this trial.
[Explosive boom reverberates, music continues]
[Music concludes, flames crackle]
[Soft chatter]
[Drucker] I am a political analyst for Channel 13.
In the news company...
we did hundreds of investigative reports over the years,
on everybody.
Stories about Prime Minister Sharon,
stories about Prime Minister Barak,
and I did a lot of the stories of Prime Minister Netanyahu.
[Film-maker] Do the Netanyahus know who you are?
"Do the Netanyahus...?" Yes, they know.
The Netanyahus family and Mr Netanyahu
single me out as one of their worst enemies
for the last 15 years or so.
He sued me three times.
But he received zero.
There was no case.
It got to the point that they demanded for my channel to fire me,
or at least get me out to a long, long vacation...
if they want to get something from the government.
It was me or the channel.
[Tense, curious music]
[Drucker] Netanyahu, over the years, had many corruption cases.
In 1997,
he was investigated for appointing the attorney general
in some corrupt deal.
Later, he was interrogated for getting gifts.
Also, one case that starts from investigative reports that I made,
it's about the submarines deal that Israel has with Germany.
But he was never prosecuted.
[Music continues]
When you do something wrong and you get away with it,
once, and twice, and three times, and 10 times, and 20 times,
you are beginning to think you are immune,
that nothing will touch you.
So, it wasn't long before Netanyahu was into trouble, again.
[Music continues]
[In Hebrew]
[In English] The police, because it was a Prime Minister investigation
and they knew that it will be very high-profile,
they investigated everybody.
I mean hundreds of people.
Some of the witnesses were interrogated twice,
three times, four times.
You have a rare opportunity
to see the most powerful people in Israel
in interrogation rooms,
dealing with questions that were never being asked.
"What did you give? What did you get?
"How many times you met him?"
And you see people in the most tense part of their life.
[In Hebrew]
[In English]
[In Hebrew]
[Music continues]
[Drucker, in English]Netanyahu, he keeps around him,
almost in every part in the world,
someone like a sugar daddy.
Everything you need that was not supported by the country,
he will do it for you.
But when those guys has interest in Israel...
business interests or some other interest...
then it became very, very problematic.
[In Hebrew]
[Mellow, curious music]
[Reporter, in English]If you wanted to make a movie
about a fabulously wealthy Israeli entrepreneur
who strikes it rich in Hollywood
after a successful career as an international arms dealer
and undercover operative for his government,
well, there's only one person to produce it - Arnon Milchan.
It's his life story.
[Drucker] Arnon Milchan, it's a...
it's extraordinary story.
Arnon Milchan is an Israeli guy
who rise to fame by becoming a Hollywood producer.
Congratulations.
[Music continues]
[Drucker] He produced some of the biggest hits,
and even won Oscars.
And he became a tycoon.
[Music continues]
[Drucker] He's based in the US,
but he always kept a really good contacts in Israel.
Mostly and especially with the Prime Minister.
Everybody knows that if you want to speak with the Prime Minister,
go to Arnon.
If you need something from the Prime Minister, go to Arnon.
This relationship, it's worth a lot.
[Tense, curious music]
[Indistinct conversation]
[In Hebrew]
This case, the facts are really... kind of simple.
[Tense, uneasy music]
[Drucker] The Prime Minister and his wife, Sara,
were getting gifts worth a quarter of a million dollars.
They really liked the good life.
And on the other side,
Netanyahu did so many favours for Arnon Milchan.
Some people think what Arnon Milchan really did was bribe.
He was bribing the Prime Minister,
and this was the allegation.
[Music continues]
Government officials are not allowed to take gifts, period.
Period!
This is corruption.
And we sent a president,
a minister of finance,
we sent them all to prison for violating that principle,
that nobody is above the law.
[Music continues; Bustling chatter]
[Drucker] The previous prime minister, Mr Olmert,
he was investigated for corrupt deals
that were much, much less than the State indicted Netanyahu for...
...and was sent to jail.
So, it's not something vague for Netanyahu.
I'm sure he has a real fear that in the end,
he will send to jail.
He might be 80 years old when it will happen,
- but it still can happen. - [Music stops]
[In Hebrew]
[Gentle, contemplative music; Netanyahu's voices fades]
[Novik] It starts with a flawed character.
It's his mindset.
"I deserve it, and I can get away with it."
And it seemed to escalate with the years.
It mushroomed into something much more comprehensive.
[In Hebrew]
[Arnon Milchan]
[Tense, curious music]
[Music continues; Indistinct conversation]
[Hadas Klein, in English]I was Arnon's personal assistant,
and this includes everything.
So, in the bottom of my heart, I knew that police will come one day.
And I got a phone call...
which... from a number that I didn't know.
It was a police from Special Unit.
They said, "I can't tell you anything,
"and you are not allowed to talk to anybody about it,
"just come."
The first question was about champagne and cigars and gifts.
[In Hebrew]
[In English] Hadas Klein, her formal status is
"assistant to Mr Arnon Milchan."
Arnon Milchan didn't make one call,
almost no call to anyone,
without putting Hadas Klein on the line.
She works with the most powerful people.
And she was very efficient, very effective.
Very good in her job.
[In Hebrew]
[Film-maker, in English] Is it volunteered, or is it demanded?
It's demanded.
Its was... It was a supplyment line.
[Tense, drone-like music]
[Music continues]
[Klein] In the other room, I heard that there is somebody else.
It was Shani. Shani was part of our team.
The circle was very small...
like, the circle of people who knows.
It was a secret!
[In Hebrew]
[Curious, off-kilter music; Koskas' voice fades]
[Uzi Beller, in English] Bibi's lawyer, at the beginning of this scandal,
told him to resign and get out of politics.
But I think that he's worried more details will come out
if he's not in power.
[Indistinct conversation]
One thing I want to say at some point...
is that I'm dividing the person into two persons.
It's Bibi on the one... My kind of Bibi,
not the crowd kind of Bibi, and then there's Netanyahu.
Otherwise, I can't handle the situation.
Is that okay?
He didn't have that many friends...
and I was...
Why is it that always people approach me,
"You're Bibi's friend?" And everybody says the same,
but it's because he didn't have that many close friends ever.
So...
...I'm the one.
[Mellow, delicate music]
[Beller] We grew up in Jerusalem.
There's one photo that somebody took when we were, like,
I don't know, 10 or 11, and it's on the entrance to his home.
He was very much stronger than I am, and much bigger.
Yoni was his older brother.
I think he was three years apart.
They looked very much alike.
Same body structure, very similar.
They had a strong friendship, admiration from Bibi to Yoni.
- Yoni was like the star of the family. - [Tense, curious music]
The father and the mother didn't ignore it.
They were very much into admiration of strength and power.
I don't think I was a macho, but Bibi was a macho,
in many ways.
[Reporter] Good evening. Pro-Palestinian extremists
have hijacked an Air France jet to Uganda's Entebbe Airport.
[Reporter 2] Israeli government ministers worked into the Jewish Sabbath tonight
on negotiations for the release of about 100 Israelis
and other Jews from Palestinian hijackers.
[Benjamin Netanyahu]On July 4th, 1976,
my brother Yoni, lieutenant colonel and commander,
led his men to rescue hostages
from Entebbe, Uganda, in the heart of Africa.
[Stirring, dramatic music]
[Netanyahu]The terrorists were now certain
that they were beyond Israel's reach.
[Music continues]
This operation was something that was never done at this magnitude,
to save so many people, so far away.
The whole thing is fantastic.
So much was written, and there's a movie about it.
[Music continues]
[Rapid gunfire]
[Netanyahu] Landing in the dead of night at Entebbe Airport,
Yoni's force killed the terrorists, and they liberated 102 hostages.
[Rapid gunfire]
[Music continues]
[Beller] You had only one person killed there,
who was the commander of the unit -
Yoni Netanyahu.
- He was a very young man. - [Soft, sombre music]
So, for Bibi it was a...
...you know, major, major loss.
[Netanyahu] Yoni, my extraordinary older brother,
instantly emerged from anonymity to fame.
A person of exceptional intelligence and dedication to Israel,
he served as a model to be emulated.
Yoni's sacrifice and example helped me overcome inconsolable grief,
and thrust me into the public battle against terrorism.
[Beller] Bibi sort of took over the first son's role,
and with the death of Yoni, it was like a platform.
Yoni's death... was definitely the making of Bibi.
There's no question about it.
It opened the door for something new to start.
- And that's how it drove him to politics. - [Gentle, ruminative music]
[Reporter] Benjamin Netanyahu, like the country he represents,
believes in attacking his attackers.
His job is to be an ambassador, but his passion is a personal crusade
against international terrorism and the states that sponsor it.
The US Embassy in Beirut tonight is a floodlit scene of death and devastation.
A car apparently packed with more than 300lbs of explosives
blew up in the narrow drive at the entrance to the embassy.
I think that this attack was meant to serve
as a symbolic, psychological blow,
a defeat for the United States.
In the question of terrorism, there is no neutrality.
There is no position of magisterial objectivity
between good and evil.
You have to choose.
You are either with the terrorists, or you're against them.
[Beller]Once he became a politician,
he was a major, major expert on terrorism,
and a protector of Israel.
Flight 847, the TWA flight hijacked to Beirut,
now under control of two armed hijackers.
They want the prisoners you're holding, the Lebanese Shi'ites.
Will you release them?
They have not made a concrete demand, and I...our policy, as far as possible,
is not to concede to terrorist demands,
and certainly I believe, based on what I've heard from Washington,
that that is your policy as well.
His performance on television used to be masterpieces.
You don't surrender.
Whatever you do, you don't surrender to these killers.
- [Explosive boom reverberates] - Does the West have the will...
and the guts to fight back?
He knew exactly what to say, how to say it.
He has this pleasant baritone, his gestures...
You slap them on the wrist.
You make them stop and pause. They try again.
You have to hit them again, until they know that you are serious.
He became really... perfected it.
If they are going to be unpunished,
they'll come back again, there'll be other killings, other murders.
- And they're testing us. - [Moody, contemplative music]
[Ehud Olmert] He was a great performer,
and it made him a very popular person.
He was the hero of the Jews,
and he was the hero of the state of Israel,
standing against all those who hate the Jewish people
and the state of Israel.
This was a great... a great campaign without campaigning.
[In Hebrew]
[Netanyahu]
[Reporter, in English]Benjamin "Bibi" Netanyahu,
46, thrice-married father of three,
right-wing politician, and now Israeli Prime Minister.
[Beller] He became Prime Minister, I think, he was 46 years old.
Very young. And he had confidence.
It's an amazing success when you think about it.
Enormous!
[In Hebrew]
[Applause, cheering]
[Applause, cheering; Moody, sombre music]
[In English] His ambition brought him to the heights of success.
[In Hebrew]
[Novik, in English] To become Prime Minister at the age that he did,
to exceed the founding father, Ben Gurion,
in the duration of his premiership...
...he reached heights beyond anyone else.
But his moral flaws...
...turned it all upside down.
[Music fades]
[In Hebrew]
[Tense, moody music; Indistinct conversation]
[In English] First of all, Mrs Sara Netanyahu is very important
as a decision-maker...
in everything that goes around Mr Netanyahu.
[In Hebrew]
[Nir Hefetz, in English]Benjamin Netanyhu is extremely skilful
and knowledgeable and smart.
"But can we trust you?"
So, that's Sara's responsibility.
So, once he thinks that someone has the right skills...
still, Sara needs to give her approval...
that we, the Netanyahu family,
can trust this guy or this lady.
[Drucker] She gets to decide who will be the advisors,
she gets to decide his schedule, she gets to decide policy.
She is very, very important.
They are almost like couple that runs the country.
[In Hebrew]
[Drucker] Sara Netanyahu is much more than controversial.
It's been proved in court...
that Sara Netanyahu abused workers,
treated them in the most humiliating way possible.
[Curious, ruminative music]
[In Hebrew]
[Music continues]
[Indistinct chatter; Camera shutters click]
[Music continues]
[Klein]
[In English] Sara Netanyahu, she really feels that she is entitled
to get all these things...
and she scares from nothing.
She's still doing it today!
Just with different people.
[In Hebrew]
[Tense, sombre music]
[Klein]
[Gentle, curious music]
[Meni Naftali]
[Music continues]
[Drucker, in English] 30 years ago, Netanyahu was involved in a sex scandal
that was never been heard of in puritan Israel of those days.
In Israel, this scandal is called the "hot tape" scandal.
[Newsreader, in Hebrew]
[In English] We know the name of the woman that was supposed to be in the hot tape.
- Nobody ever saw the hot tape. - [He chuckles]
No-one.
But his response was panicky.
[In Hebrew]
[Tense, curious music; Netanyahu inaudible]
[Drucker, in English] It made Sara furious that you tell all Israeli public
that you had a romance with somebody else.
Behind my back.
[Applause]
[In Hebrew]
[Drucker, in English] That was the moment that everything changed.
This shape the relationship between Benjamin and Sara Netanyahu.
[Tense, ruminative music]
[Music fades]
[In Hebrew]
[Milchan]
[Tense, curious music]
[Drucker, in English]He's a great actor.
He knows how to look relaxed.
But he's not relaxed at all.
He's very, very stressed because of it.
Any one of us would be stressful if the police would come to us
with such an allegation.
But he knows how to play the game,
and he knows that he's being filmed all the time,
and he doesn't want to look bad.
[In Hebrew]
[In English] I mean, he doesn't remember the diamond that Sara received?
He was personally involved with it.
He doesn't know anything about champagne bottles that she received.
Come on! I mean, it was in his house, in his car.
He doesn't know about it. It's ridiculous!
I mean this is $250,000.
[Tense, uneasy music; Indistinct conversation]
If you want to lie, you know, you need a great memory.
You need a great memory to lie. He has a great memory.
[In Hebrew]
[Beller] He lies left and right.
Bibi lies left and right.
He uses... I mean, lying, for him, is not something bad.
Seriously!
And it doesn't... it doesn't give him...
He doesn't feel any... problem with it.
[In Hebrew]
[In English] The felony that Netanyahu is indicted in
is called "breach of trust,"
which means that you put yourself
in a very high risk of conflicts of interest.
[Tense, curious music]
[Drucker] Arnon Milchan has an access to the Prime Minister
where other people don't get this access.
Anytime he needs something...
he can pick up the phone and find Netanyahu.
[In Hebrew]
[Drucker, in English]There is some law in Israel...
that help Arnon Milchan to pay less taxes.
This law has a deadline...
and Milchan wants this deadline
to be... pushing far off.
[In Hebrew]
So, Netanyahu is speaking with his Finance Minister,
telling him, "Maybe we'll help Arnon.
"Maybe we'll do it with this law, extend it for few more years."
Any law that relates to taxes
needs to go through Yair Lapid, the Finance Minister.
[In Hebrew]
[Drucker, in English] He tried to help Arnon Milchan in few other things.
Arnon Milchan helped Israel, in some ways,
to get all kinds of equipment to our nuclear project,
to build nuclear bombs.
[Tense, moody music]
[Drucker]This was 40 or 50 years ago.
Many people thought some of the things that he did
was against the American laws.
Years later, he decided to brag about it,
and to tell it out loud.
[In Hebrew]
[In English] It made someone in the American administration furious.
Not only he did it, but now he said it out loud.
So, they decided to cut his visa.
And all his life is in the US.
[Officer, in Hebrew]
[Drucker, in English] Netanyahu speaks with the American Ambassador in Israel,
he's calling the Secretary of State,
Mr John Kerry, a few times.
His people speak with all kinds of people,
putting pressure to take care of this thing
and get Arnon Milchan his visa back.
Ultimately, it happened.
[In Hebrew]
[In English] When you want to ask a favour from Secretary Kerry...
when you deal with him...
in Iran, Palestinians, all the rest...
you want to ask for a favour,
this needs to be something very dramatic.
You don't want to waste your political capital...
for Arnon Milchan visa!
This is... unheard of.
[In Hebrew]
[Tense, uneasy music; Bustling chatter]
[Crowd chants]
[Chanting continues]
[Chanting] Bibi! Bibi! Bibi! Bibi!
[Rapturous applause, cheering]
[Novik, in English] It came to the point of what the French are saying,
"L'État, c'est moi." "The country is me."
When people serve for too long...
...it gets into their head.
And we saw the breaking point
because the way he won the elections of 2015,
which was single-handedly.
The polls was predicting a loss,
but he won... big-time!
And it did something to the ego.
[Tense, moody music]
[Klein] Around 2015, something changed.
It felt like he doesn't need to give any explanation to anybody at all,
like... like a Caesar.
And we need to obey... the rules
of... of not... not of the kingdom, of His Majesty.
[Music continues; Applause, cheering]
[Hefetz] At that time, there were no police investigations.
There was no threat to his rule.
He was seen, in Israel,
and also by Obama or Putin...
as...
...the most powerful leader that Israel has ever had.
[Crowd chants]
[Music continues]
[Hefetz] I want to remind you that I was the campaign manager.
You see that, on the stage, I was standing with them, too.
It's me.
It's only three of us - Bibi, Sara, and myself.
[He chuckles]
It was a glamorous... wow... night... wow.
[Rhythmic clapping]
[Film-maker] Do you remember Nir Hefetz?
[In Hebrew]
[Film-maker, in English] Who is Nir Hefetz?
[In Hebrew]
[Hefetz, in English]I was the closest aid to Sara Netanyahu,
and one of the closest to Benjamin Netanyahu.
And I was the personal spokesman of the whole family.
[Applause, cheering]
[Hefetz] Many, many people - and especially leaders -
make the mistakes after such a huge success,
when they start to believe...
that they are untouchable, that they are...
...magicians.
Benjamin Netanyahu started believing
what his wife has been telling him for years.
"You're the one!
"If you were not born in Israel, if you were born in Michigan,
"you would be the President of the United States of America, for sure!"
I think this night...
was not only his biggest win,
it was also the day that he started to deteriorate.
And it ended not as I expected.
You know, life takes us to unexpected corners.
[Dark, ruminative music]
[In Hebrew]
[Drucker, in English] Nir Hefetz became a very important witness,
because he is one of the messengers
between the tycoon Shaul Elovitch
and the Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
There is a big difference between Shaul Elovitch and Arnon Milchan.
Shaul Elovitch doesn't like the limelight at all.
He never gave interviews.
He's very concentrating in doing money.
[In Hebrew]
[Drucker, in English]Shaul Elovitch made his fortune
from importing Nokia cellphones.
And in a certain point of time, he took very big loans from the banks
in order to finance his...
upgrading to become such a tycoon.
At the end of 2016,
Elovitch was in a state of panic.
He had a deadline, paying back loans
of billions of dollars to the banks.
[In Hebrew]
[Drucker, in English] And from Netanyahu, Elovitch needs a signature
that will allow him to get a very quick cash,
something around $200 million.
Bibi understood that Elovitch needed the signature very badly.
[In Hebrew]
[In English] Nir Hefetz goes to Netanyahu and give it to him.
Netanyahu reads it.
[In Hebrew]
[In English] Now, the question is what Netanyahu wants
in return for this signature.
[Tense, ruminative music]
[Drucker] It turns out that Shaul Elovitch is also the owner
of a small website called Walla,
a website with a news department.
[Music continues]
[In Hebrew]
[Music continues]
[Drucker, in English]So, they had a secret meeting,
and in the end, Netanyahu received full control of Walla,
and Shaul Elovitch got the signature.
[In Hebrew]
[Avi Alcalay]
[Tense, uneasy music]
[Indistinct conversation]
[Drucker, in English]Yair Netanyahu, his son,
became very important in this case.
Both of them, Yair and Sara,
present a very brutal approach...
to politics.
A lot of power.
Never surrender, never compromise.
[In Hebrew]
[In English] The obsession of Yair with the media
is similar a little bit to his father.
The Israeli media is a completely North Korean-style
socialist, communist propaganda.
I was blocked several times from Facebook for "hate speech."
There are many examples to the influence of Yair over Bibi.
You can see it.
[In Hebrew]
[Yair Netanyahu]That's what the Israeli media is doing -
pretending to be objective but actually echoing the most
radical... Marxist... agenda.
[In Hebrew]
[In English] The common theme between the left in Israel, America, and Europe
is pushing forward illegal immigration and illegal immigrants,
because they want to change the identity of the country,
and make national identity obsolete.
[In Hebrew]
[Beller, in English]Bibi told me one day, I remember,
that Yair can replace him.
[Tense, unnerving music]
I did this with my eyes.
I didn't say a word, I just...
My eyebrows went up.
"Yair can replace you? First of all..."
- [Beller chuckles] - "..you can't appoint your son.
"Why can he be considered?"
He said, "Well, he has the capability."
He really thinks that it's like...
a kingdom.
[Music continues]
[In Hebrew]
[Tense, disquieting music]
[Music continues]
[Music fades]
[Drucker in English] This is a very conventional procedure to confront people.
You have a witness who is saying A,
and the other guy is saying B,
and all of the sudden, one of them understands
that the other one spoke against him.
Maybe he will sit in jail because of this guy.
[In Hebrew]
[Drucker, in English]It's a crime to destroy your phone
when you know that it might contain evidence.
Elovitch's phones carried nothing.
They destroyed them, and they erased everything.
[In Hebrew]
[Drucker] But then, Ilan Yeshua,
General Manager of Walla,
goes to the police with his cellphone,
gives all the text messages...
[Notifications chime]
[Drucker] ..all the recordings that Ilan Yeshua did with them.
Shaul Elovitch and Mr Netanyahu, they knew nothing about it.
They were caught by surprise.
[In Hebrew]
[Music continues]
[Drucker, in English]The police sometimes attacked him
with all kinds of things, and he's, like, banging on the table.
"To what kind of low level you will get to try to catch me?!"
I'm sure he has a real fear that in the end,
he will send to jail.
And this is very scary,
to his legacy, to his freedom, to everything.
[In Hebrew]
[Tense, drone-like music]
[Bustling chatter; Camera shutters click]
[Music fades]
[Beller, in English] When they published the criminal charges against him,
I called him up and I said, "Bibi, what's gonna happen?
"This is serious business.
"They would not bring these up without good evidence."
I said to him, "Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu,
"you're in trouble.
"And, uh...
- "..it could end up with jail." - [Tense, unnerving music]
And he gave his usual story, "It's terrible.
"There's no democracy in the world that would do this."
[Netanyahu, in Hebrew]
[Music continues, camera shutters click]
[Reporter, in English] Benjamin Netanyahu was before a judge a short time ago,
saying he's not guilty of bribery, fraud,
and breach-of-trust charges.
[Drucker]There was, like, a precedence -
no prime minister will serve when, at the same time,
he has a criminal case going on
just 5km from his Prime Minister office.
It's absurd!
You're supposed to resign. Everybody did it.
He is the only one who didn't.
[In Hebrew]
[Music continues]
Unnecessary. Unnecessary.
It was a result of arrogance. Arrogance.
He was challenging the system.
He said, "No, I'm above, I'm beyond,
"no-one can touch me.
"You dare not do it. And if you do it, this is manipulation."
[In Hebrew]
[Drucker, in English]After the indictment,
the centre-left parties in Israel,
they all decided to ban him.
It made him more right-wing in his position,
and it made him dependent on the extreme right in Israel.
[In Hebrew]
[Reporter, in English]Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu,
he's nurtured the extreme right to boost coalition numbers.
Netanyahu needs the far right's backing
as he tries to swerve corruption charges, which he denies.
[Reporter 2] He has officially formed the country's most-far-right-ever government.
[Reporter 3]With some of the most fringe,
vile figures in all of Israeli politics.
- [Reporter 4] Itamar Ben-Gvir. - [Reporter 5] Bezalel Smotrich.
[Reporter]Their opponents call them "pyromaniacs,"
as they portray themselves as patriots.
[Sami Abu Shehadeh] Without Netanyahu, the fascist extreme right
were considered not legitimate players within the Israeli political system.
They were considered very extreme,
and nobody wanted to touch them or deal with them.
[In Hebrew]
[Indistinct yelling]
You just have to listen to Smotrich and to Ben-Gvir.
Smotrich is a Jewish terrorist.
[Interviewer, in Hebrew]
[Officer]
[Ayalon, in English]He had all the instruments
in order to use it for a terror action,
but he kept silence,
and because we do not interrogate Jewish terrorists
the way we interrogate Palestinian terrorists,
he did not confess.
And this is why he was not in jail.
When it comes to Ben-Gvir,
he supported the assassination of Prime Minister Rabin
when he was a youngster.
[Reporter] He was once filmed holding a hood emblem
he claimed was from the car of former Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin,
an architect of the Israeli-Palestinian peace process.
[Interviewer, in Hebrew]
[Gunfire]
[Reporter, in English] A Jewish extremist assassinated Rabin three weeks later.
[Ayalon] Ben-Gvir, he was not recruited to military service
because he was condemned in court
as one who support Jewish terror.
[Applause]
[Reporter] He's the follower of a racist movement,
and wants to expel what he calls "disloyal Arabs."
I love Israel, and I don't want to...
[Clamour]
Just a minute!
They want... They want kill me and kill you,
the Jihadisti!
[Reporter]In occupied East Jerusalem,
he pulled out his gun,
calling for Palestinians who throw stones to be shot.
He see violence as a legitimate action.
These are people that Netanyahu would not agree to take picture with
just two, three years ago.
But now, Smotrich is the Minister of Finance,
and Ben-Gvir is the Minister of National Security.
He is now captive to their whims!
[Reporter] They are pro-expansion of Jewish settlements
in the occupied West Bank,
retaking land they believe belongs to them.
[Novik] These people are messianic annexationists...
[In Hebrew]
[Novik, in English]..Jewish supremacists...
[Reporter] What do you say to those who say you are
inciting violence against Palestinians?
[In Hebrew]
[In English] These people want to settle Gaza and the West Bank.
[Tense, sombre music; Faint clamour]
[Siren buzzes, wails]
[Music continues]
[Bashar Sadik Ma'amar, in Arabic]
[Music continues]
[In Hebrew]
[Tense, pulsing music]
[Abu Shehadeh, in English] I think one of the most unknown issues regarding Israel,
that 20% of the population are Arab-Palestinians.
[Bustling chatter]
For a Palestinian who lives in the state of Israel...
being a member of the Knesset is a very, very complicated issue.
You never go happy to work.
This man is now the minister that is controlling the police,
and he is bringing his racist, violent ideology
in all the policing system inside Israel.
[Tense, sombre music]
[Novik] Smotrich would do ethnic cleansing
based on his published plan.
That's... Bibi's governing coalition.
[Drucker] For them, Ben-Gvir and Smotrich,
they have zero interest in the corruption cases,
because Netanyahu is the messiah's donkey.
He can bring us all our fantasies, all our dreams,
our vision to annex Judea and Samaria,
to kill, one time and for all,
the idea of Palestinian state.
So, what happened in 2023?
What was the difference between 2023 and the 20 years that came before?
Only one thing - the Supreme Court.
[Music continues]
[Olmert] The Supreme Court was perceived by his partners -
the Ben-Gvirs, the Smotriches -
as the rival of what they want to achieve.
Because if you are an annexationist,
the Supreme Court might stop you,
so you need to castrate the Supreme Court from being able to stop you.
[Music continues; Indistinct chatter]
[Novik] At the same time, Netanyahu realised
judicial reform could be a way to legislate his way out...
of his legal predicament.
[Music continues]
[Olmert] Netanyahu looked at the Supreme Court
as an immediate, direct, personal threat to him.
[Drucker] It was a week after the government was formed...
Netanyahu presented a very drastic,
very aggressive reform against the legal system.
And he just... put all Israel in turmoil.
[Clamour]
[Novik] The people said, "Enough is enough."
The legal reform that he wanted
made it so Netanyahu would appoint
the judges that will hear his appeal.
I mean, it was... And it was transparent.
He wanted to avoid any prison time.
[Drucker] He wanted to change the way we elect judges.
"We need to change the power that they have,
"so they will have much less power, the Supreme Court.
"We need to change the police, we need to change the Attorney General,
"we need to choose a different Attorney General."
He wanted to break the bones of the system
before they are coming close
to determine his political and personal fate.
[Clamour]
[George Stephanopoulos] What do you say to your critics that say that this reform
is designed, in part, for you to protect yourself?
I think it's ridiculous. This has nothing to do with my trial...
There is no question in my mind...
that the burden of the investigation, the fear of the investigation,
has led him to take terrible decisions
that were completely affected
by his fears and his agony.
[Ayalon] Jail is a threat,
and he can identify threat
more than any other person whom I met,
because he is always afraid.
What do you say to people who say
you're only trying to override the judiciary
- because of your own interests? - None of the reforms... That's false.
None of the reforms that we're talking about -
these democratic reforms - have anything to do with my trial.
[Clamour, chanting]
[Piers Morgan] All these people protesting just don't get it?
Many of them don't. Many of them...
Isn't that slightly patronising, Prime Minister?
- No, I don't think so. - To tell your own people,
who are protesting in the hundreds of thousands...
I didn't say that all of them don't!
[Clamour]
[Interviewer] Do you accept the premise that the public is upset about this?
Well, some of it is upset.
You wouldn't know about the other side that seeks...
that wants to have the judicial reform
because their demonstrations are not covered.
So, yes, there is a divided country right now.
[Chanting]
[Novik] The public response was the most massive demonstration
that we had seen ever, on any issue.
And it was week after week after week for something like 39 weeks!
[Drucker] It was young and old, and religious people even came,
and, of course, secular and kids.
My kids were in the streets.
Your cameraman was beaten many times,
I believe, and was arrested, or whatever happened to him.
Everybody was in the street.
[Clamour]
[Beller] Bibi made major mistakes.
What he did to my country is terrible.
It's really unforgivable.
And he knows what he's doing.
It's not that he doesn't know.
It was too much.
At that point, I said, "I'm coming out and I'm speaking in public."
[Siren blares]
[In Hebrew]
[Applause; Horns blare]
Netanyahu's legal predicament...
was undermining our security.
The army started to say that, "Look, our enemies...
"are watching us."
[Tense, sombre music]
[Ayalon] We were weak, but not because of the protests...
because of the policy that he led.
And it was clear to me that our resilience... is falling apart.
It create a huge danger - security danger -
because our enemies understand it...
sometimes earlier than we do.
[Music continues]
[Indistinct conversation]
[Gunfire]
[Shouting]
[Explosive boom; Woman shrieks]
[Mournful wailing]
[Explosive boom]
[Reporter, in Hebrew]
[Woman]
[Gunfire, screaming]
[Gunfire, screaming continue]
[Rapid gunfire]
[Clamour]
[Gunfire]
[Tense, sinister music]
[In Arabic]
[Rapid gunfire in distance; Woman sobs]
[Sobbing continues]
[Crying, gunfire continue]
[Screaming, crying]
[Low, sombre music]
[Schwartz] I didn't expect October 7th to happen.
I didn't expect it, but I wish I could say I was surprised.
Things have been heating up for a while.
I'm not very old - I'm 20 years old -
but for my entire life, I have known...
...bombs and war, and now, this situation.
[Rapid gunfire]
[Tense, uneasy music]
[Schwartz] I was raised in Kibbutz Be'eri, in the Negev,
which is in the south of this land.
The kibbutz, it's very based on community.
There's a lot of agriculture and nature.
It's not that big - everybody knows everybody else -
and we are a very tight-knit community in that sense.
On October 7th, people from Hamas entered my kibbutz
in the early morning
and started burning houses...
...and murdering people.
Over 90 people that I used to know are dead now...
...which is a lot to grapple with.
It's a lot to comprehend.
There are people that are still held hostage,
as well as people that...
we don't know where they are.
[Music continues]
Bibi has not been to Be'eri since October 7th,
and I don't want him to come, because...
I would never welcome him in my home.
He was Prime Minister ever since I can remember,
and, living on the border, I always felt...
the effects of that - negative effects of that, always -
of his choices and his policies and how that affected me,
and later, his corruption, as well.
And I don't want to hear his name,
I don't want to see his face.
I am exhausted of him.
[Music continues; Birdsong]
[Netanyahu, in Hebrew]
[Novik, in English] The public blames Netanyahu for October 7th
as the one who fed the beast.
He did not create Hamas, but he fed it.
Netanyahu...
who is against peace...
and who is against having a Palestinian state...
dealt with Hamas for a long time...
as a strategic friend.
[In Hebrew]
It was important for him to keep Gaza under the control of Hamas,
and keeping the West Bank under the control of Fatah,
and preventing them from being united in any way.
In order to do so,
Netanyahu was, all the time, helping Hamas to survive.
[Tense, sombre music]
[Novik] At the same time that he was under investigation,
he arranged for Hamas to receive
$35 million every month from Qatar.
[Drucker] Netanyahu can't give them money by himself.
Israel will not give money to the Hamas.
You cannot even transfer this money through banks,
because even the banks don't want to cooperate.
So, you, the Israeli Prime Minister,
needs to beg this small and very rich country, Qatar,
to give money... to our enemy.
[Abu Shehadeh] These suitcases of money was given to Hamas...
under the request of Benjamin Netanyahu personally!
And because the Qatarians knew him from the beginning...
they were asking him...
to send them his requests in writing...
...because they knew that he was going to lie in the future.
[Ayalon]He allowed more than one billion
to be transferred to the hands of the Hamas
because he believed
that he can control the level of hatred.
It's nonsense. He cannot control the flames.
[Reporter, in Hebrew]
[Clamour]
[In English] Your strategy was... keep Hamas there,
weaken the Palestinian authority on the West Bank,
sustain the extremists, weaken the moderates.
[Gunfire]
[Novik] This exploded in our faces in the most brutal way on October 7th.
[Clamour]
Bibi tells the world, again and again and again,
"I am the expert on terrorism.
"I know how to fight terrorism.
"I am the protector of Israel."
And under his... regime,
we get into this incredible, unbelievable war.
[Tense, sinister music]
[Explosive boom reverberates]
[Music continues]
[Explosive booms reverberate]
[Explosive boom reverberates, she screams]
[In Hebrew]
[Music continues]
[Explosive boom reverberates]
[Newsreader, in English] Chaos, carnage and confusion today in the Middle East.
Four months after the terror attack in Israel,
the fighting continues.
It started with my neighbours in my Kibbutz being killed,
and it continues with my neighbours in Gaza being killed.
[Explosive boom reverberates]
[Newsreader 2] The death toll inside Gaza now surpasses 15,000 Palestinians...
- [Newsreader 3] ..20,000 people... - [Newsreader 4] ..now more than 25,000...
[Newsreader 5] ..more than 30,000 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza
since October 7th.
[Tense, sombre music]
[Sobbing, wailing]
[Drucker] The far right in Israel want a constant war,
never-ending war, because they think, in their fantasy,
that we can eradicate the Hamas from Gaza Strip,
and then we can eliminate Hezbollah from Lebanon,
and maybe we can have a Jewish presence in Gaza Strip
and in South Lebanon.
[Music continues]
The people who are talking about a military solution,
I mean, what's happening right now is not a solution,
it's just a massacre in Gaza.
I don't think that makes anything in our future better
and anything in our present better, it's just horrible.
[Mournful sobbing, wailing]
[Schwartz]This death, this pain, this cruelty
became bigger and bigger and bigger.
[Newsreader] As the Gaza war continues, so, too, does the hostage crisis.
Despite the return of dozens of kidnapped Israelis during the temporary truce,
many more still remain in Gaza.
[Woman] I have been waiting for the government to bring me my son, Matan.
I can't wait any more.
I can't sit at home and wait.
My son should be home yesterday! Now!
The kidnapped must come home. In this minute!
- Everybody should scream about it! - Can't be longer!
- It cannot be longer like this! - [Car horns]
In my judgment, hostages come first and foremost,
above any other objective of the war.
We know that not all of them are surviving.
Destroying Hamas can wait.
But the hostages cannot wait another day.
But Bibi's government,
they are not willing to hear of ending the war.
[Itamar Ben Gvir, in Hebrew]
[Tense, unnerving music]
[Bezalel Smotrich]
[In English] The hostage families, they ask for a meeting with the Prime Minister,
because they are desperate.
In this desperation, when they come to him,
and she's sitting next to him, Sara Netanyahu.
There were some reports about things that she said in those meetings,
trying to encourage them to say good things about the Prime Minister,
"or else why should we help them?"
[Music continues]
[In Hebrew]
[Reporter]
[Drucker] The hostage families, they don't like it,
but if your son or father is in the hands of the Hamas,
you will do everything!
Flatter her.
Say good things about her.
Have a picture with her. Whatever she needs.
Instead of having the Prime Minister say,
"Let me tell you everything I can...
"about your beloved one, about the efforts to release them,"
instead of that, you need to flatter the wife of the Prime Minister
and say, "Oh, Sara, you're so helpful,"
and, "Thank you so much for investing the time and the energy."
The hostage families are in a very delicate situation.
Like, almost every hostage family I know is very, very critical of Netanyahu.
But I know that many of them are very, very scared
to speak their criticism,
that if they do...
the government will try even less for the hostages.
[Presenter] What is the higher priority at this moment -
totally eliminating Hamas,
or saving the lives of those hostages and getting them free?
The reason we succeeded in getting 110 hostages out -
that's half the hostages -
is because we applied military pressure, not because we stopped applying it.
We understand, also, that the one thing that gets Hamas to give them -
to give these hostages to us -
is the continued military pressure.
The only thing that gets Hamas to release the hostages is military pressure.
[Novik] The argument that only military pressure will produce a deal
proved tragically erroneous.
And yet, the war continues aimlessly!
I mean, is the objective the last...
...Hamas soldier with a weapon in a tunnel?
That will take years!
And how many casualties?
[Netanyahu]I think we have to finish the job.
We can finish the job.
Victory is within reach, and that's our goal - total victory.
Our fight is your fight, and our victory is your victory.
Tonight, I want to speak to you about total victory.
Total victory over Hamas.
Unless we have total victory, we can't have peace.
"Total victory" doesn't actually mean anything here,
in actuality.
You know all the casualties and death and suffering,
and that's what it looks like, in reality. That's what it looks like.
That's what those words actually mean.
[Tense, portentous music]
[Netanyahu] My dear friends, the war in Gaza could end tomorrow
if Hamas surrenders, disarms, and returns all the hostages.
[Applause, cheering]
That's what "total victory" means,
and we will settle for nothing less!
[Applause, cheering]
[Drucker]Netanyahu goes to the Congress
because he needs the Americans desperately.
My friends, I came to assure you today of one thing -
we will win!
[Drucker] He wants the Israeli public to be proud
to have their leader speak in front of this very prestigious group...
...and getting applaud so many times.
He's speaking to the American Congress,
but he's really speaking to the Israeli public.
Together, we shall defend our common civilisation.
Together, we shall secure a brilliant future for both our nations!
[Applause]
[Novik] Well, I would say that, tragically,
the Americans don't know how to call him out.
[Applause continues]
[Novik] There was no plan for ending the war of Gaza,
bringing the hostages home, and changing dynamics in the region.
And things only got worse.
[Continuous explosive booms reverberate]
[Novik] Netanyahu is the architect of chaos.
And, as we speak, when all eyes are on the front in Gaza
- and the front in Lebanon... - [Explosive blast]
[Explosive booms reverberate]
[Novik] ..he is implementing his plan in the West Bank
with the extreme right.
[Tense, unnerving music]
He may create a situation where it's irreversible.
[Ayalon] He's the great example...
of a leader that lead his people...
to the wrong place.
[Sirens blare]
[Ayalon] But this is the reality
in which he will preserve his political power.
[Music continues]
[No audible dialogue]
[Ayalon]And he knows how to manipulate.
He needs it, in a way.
[Music builds]
[Tense, uneasy music]
[Shredder whirs]
[In Hebrew]
[Music fades]
[Sombre, ruminative music]
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