The magician. The wizard. The master. These are just some of the nicknames that Benjamin Netanyahu or 'Bibi' — Israel's longest-serving Prime Minister and chairman of the country's right-wing Likud party — had grown accustomed to over recent years. “Bibi, King of Israel," his diehard supporters liked to chant.
Longer in office than the country’s founder, David Ben-Gurion, and luckier in power when it came to terrorists, the economy and signing peace deals with Arab states than his great storied rivals Ariel Sharon, Shimon Peres or Yitzhak Rabin, there were those in Israel who felt — or feared — that the Bibi era might never end. That is until the morning of October 7, when it all came crashing down.
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