Benjamin Netanyahu cut an imperial figure when he appeared before thousands of supporters in Tel Aviv last week. Having just achieved a fourth election victory against all the odds, the Israeli Prime Minister was in no mood for modesty or magnanimity. “I’m proud of the Israeli people because at the moment of truth they knew how to distinguish between nonsense and a challenge – and they took up the challenge,“ he declared. A rapturous crowd of Likudniks, as supporters of Netanyahu’s Likud party are popularly known, responded by heaping praise on the man they know as Bibi. “Hail, hail Bibi,” they chanted throughout the victory speech. So Netanyahu is back, and he wields more power than ever before. In a polity as fractured as Israel, achieving first