Benjamin Netanyahu is nothing if not a fighter. Having been ousted as Israel’s prime minister a year ago by an alliance of political foes and now embroiled in a corruption trial (he denies all charges), one might have thought the 73-year-old’s career was up. But no: after Israel’s fifth election in four years, he is poised to return to power – this time at the head of the most extreme rightwing coalition the country has ever seen.
Jerusalem correspondent Bethan McKernan charts the fall and rise of the man they call “King Bibi” and explores what his Faustian-looking pact with the ultra-religious right may mean, as well as the devastating blow defeat has dealt to Israel’s Arab-supporting and leftwing parties.
