“I will win, anyway,” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said repeatedly in conveying the key message he brought to the studio of Israel’s most watched television news show Feb. 15.
Greeting her viewers at the start of the show, Channel 12 news anchor Yonit Levi announced that Netanyahu was on his way to the studio for an extensive interview. The interview was a surprise. Not only because it had not been announced in advance, but also because its message deviated from Netanyahu’s usual preelection tactics of crying wolf, warning voters that the Likud is about to lose in order to get them out to vote.
