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He joined the right-wing Likud party and gained notoriety by leading an extremely vocal opposition to then-Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin's peace plans, including lengthy talks and an accord with Yasser Arafat and the PLO, and a treaty with Jordan in 1994, all of which Bibi denounced as essentially treasonous. Rabin was assassinated in November 1995, by an Israeli appearing to hold similar views.

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He joined the right-wing Likud party and gained notoriety by leading an extremely vocal opposition to then-Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin's peace plans, including lengthy talks and an accord with Yasser Arafat and the PLO, and a treaty with Jordan in 1994, all of which Bibi denounced as essentially treasonous. Rabin was assassinated in November 1995, by an Israeli appearing to hold similar views.
views. Blaming the assassination on Bibi, however, is tenuous at best - Yigal Amir was noted to be an unstable religious fanatic and loose cannon even ''before'' Oslo.



At home, however, and especially around the end of his fourth and during his fifth term, Bibi is more known for his [[SleazyPolitician corruption]], [[HandsomeLech womanizing]], and [[PermanentElectedOfficial attempts to hold onto power and increase his own prestige]], including things like doing favors for millionaires in exchange for alcohol and cigars, proposing to abolish the ceremonial Presidency just to prevent the front-runner, his ideological rival Reuven Rivlin, from winning, calling a second election in 2019 to prevent the same Rivlin from appointing his 2019 challenger, Benny Gantz, as Prime Minister, and successfully using the COVID-19 pandemic to coax Gantz's bloc into supporting him - which has the welcome (for him) side effect of making Gantz's centrist party crash and burn in the polls in favor of rightist parties. However, he's hardly the most notorious guy in the Government. His own wife, Sara, [[ThePrimaDonna is obsessed with her official titles, bullies the PMO's staff into submission, and involves herself a little too much in her Husband's work]]. His son [[RoyalBrat Yair]] is often compared to [[Series/GameOfThrones Prince Joffrey]]. And then there's people like [[CulturePolice Bezalel Smotrich]], [[{{Jerkass}} Itamar Ben-Gvir]] or [[HeteronormativeCrusader Avi Maoz]]...

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At home, however, and especially around the end of his fourth and during his fifth term, Bibi is more known for his [[SleazyPolitician corruption]], [[HandsomeLech womanizing]], and [[PermanentElectedOfficial attempts to hold onto power and increase his own prestige]], including things like doing favors for millionaires in exchange for alcohol and cigars, proposing to abolish the ceremonial Presidency just to prevent the front-runner, his ideological rival Reuven Rivlin, from winning, calling a second election in 2019 to prevent the same Rivlin from appointing his 2019 challenger, Benny Gantz, as Prime Minister, and successfully using the COVID-19 pandemic to coax Gantz's bloc into supporting him - which has the welcome (for him) side effect of making Gantz's centrist party crash and burn in the polls in favor of rightist parties. However, he's hardly the most notorious guy in the Government. His own wife, Sara, [[ThePrimaDonna is obsessed with her official titles, bullies the PMO's staff into submission, and involves herself a little too much in her Husband's work]]. His son [[RoyalBrat Yair]] is often compared to [[Series/GameOfThrones Prince Joffrey]]. And then there's people like [[CulturePolice Bezalel Smotrich]], [[SleazyPolitician Aryeh Deri]], [[{{Jerkass}} Itamar Ben-Gvir]] or [[HeteronormativeCrusader Avi Maoz]]...
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* Netanyahu is a frequent target of satire on Israeli sketch comedy series ''Series/EretzNehederet''

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* Netanyahu is a frequent target of satire on Israeli sketch comedy series ''Series/EretzNehederet''''Series/EretzNehederet''.

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