during The election campaign staged by Israel’s Prime Minister Netanyahu as a successful statesman. He is but at the same time in the most difficult crisis of his career.

At the wailing wall in Jerusalem, the President of Brazil Jair Bolsonaro stretches out his hands. He holds you to the wall. Then he lowers his head. The photographers wait for the perfect Moment.

in addition to Bolsonaro Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. He looks in the direction of the cameras. He smiles. Then he stretches out his hands and lowers his head. The cameras click – the scene takes place in the middle of the Israeli election campaign. to call

Netanyahu, a media professional, would perhaps be an understatement. In the weeks before the election, he met with remarkable frequency, with statesmen such as Bolsonaro, Russian President Vladimir Putin and US President Donald Trump.

“I would like to thank my friend Donald Trump,” Netanyahu said recently in a speech. “This special connection I have to the state of men in the world, is not a matter of course. For years, I’m working on it, and my contacts help me to secure our safety and future. The policy, which I head, together with my talented party friends of Likud, has brought Israel the best decade in its history.”

In the election campaign, shows Netanyahu often with other statesmen, such as Jair Bolsonaro…

…or US President Donald Trump. So he wants to make his good contacts to the largest in the world.

His followers speak of “dark forces”

In some homes in Israel election posters showing Netanyahu with Trump hanging. With Netanyahu, on the posters, games, Israel in the first League. It is Netanyahu’s line of defense is in the biggest crisis of his political career. The attorney General wants to indict the Prime Minister in several possible cases of corruption.

In Germany, had come to the Chancellor in such a case, probably long back. In Israel, but many voters to keep the man his followers call the “king of Israel”. “For us, only Bibi Netanyahu in the elections in question,” says an older man in the center of Tel Aviv. “The attorney General is a lawyer, was mobilized by dark forces. Bibi reaches for Israel things that no politician before him: in the economy, foreign policy and security.”