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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]

[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.

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]

[Music continues]

[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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