Salmagundi, Spring-Summer 2025
On Monday, December 9, 2024 — on the evening before he took the witness stand in a trial accusing him of fraud, breach of trust, and accepting bribes in three separate cases — Benjamin Netanyahu stood before the nation for a press conference on prime time television. Ostensibly, he’d convened the press to discuss the historic fall of Bashar al-Assad in Syria. But his true motive was soon revealed.