On May 31, Naftali Bennett, the right-wing politician who became Israel’s new prime minister on Sunday, finally broke cover and lambasted his old boss and mentor Benjamin Netanyahu for trying to lead the state of Israel to his own “personal Masada” — a reference to the Jewish zealots who committed mass suicide rather than become Roman slaves in the first century A.D.
On May 31, Naftali Bennett, the right-wing politician who became Israel’s new prime minister on Sunday, finally broke cover and lambasted his old boss and mentor Benjamin Netanyahu for trying to lead the state of Israel to his own “personal Masada” — a reference to the Jewish zealots who committed mass suicide rather than become Roman slaves in the first century A.D.
