Product DescriptionThe first biography that collects the threads of Benjamin Netanyahu's tumultuous personal life, controversial public career and struggle to endure as the Jewish state's leader and the master of its destiny. It is told by a writer who has spent his career explaining the world to Israelis and interpreting Israel for a global readership.Benjamin Netanyahu was born a year after Israel. His story in many ways embodies that of the ideological underdogs of the Zionist enterprise: members of the right-wing Revisionist movement, the religious, the Mizrahi Jews who emigrated from Arab lands, the petit-bourgeoisie of the new towns and cities, who all were supposed to metamorphose into the new Israeli. It hasn't quite worked out that way.Netanyahu is also a child of America. He is in large part the product of the affluent East Coast Jewish community and of the generation that came of age in the Reagan era. He was formed as much by American Cold War conservatism as he was by his historian father's hardline right-wing Zionism.It is impossible to understand today's Israel without understanding this singular person's life. Netanyahu's Israel is a hybrid of ancient phobia and high-tech hope, tribalism and globalism--like the man himself.In the face of animus at home and abroad, Netanyahu has survived political defeat and personal setback. For many in Israel and overseas, Netanyahu is an anathema, an embarrassment, even a precursor of Donald Trump. But he continues to dominate Israeli public life and the Jewish narrative of the twenty-first century. As Israel approaches the seventieth anniversary of its birth, this one man more than any other embodies the nation and directs its fate.ReviewPraise for Bibi: The Turbulent Life and Times of Benjamin Netanyahu:"Superbly timed . . . insightful . . . Pfeffer is one of the smartest and most prolific of Israel's younger generation of journalists...Bibi, obsessed by hostile 'left-wing media,' complained preemptively that this biography would be a cartoon. It is not: it fleshes out a superficially familiar and invariably quotable figure with a wealth of background information and analysis that provide necessary and, of course, often highly critical context. . . . This book is a necessary contribution to understanding a high-profile and internationally contentious figure and the fractured country he has led for so long." ―New York Times"A perceptive history of a beleaguered nation and one deeply flawed leader." ―Kirkus Reviews“Anshel Pfeffer has done something hard to do. He’s given us an understanding, even compassionate, portrait of Benjamin Netanyahu-the family, the formative experiences, the logic of his belligerent ideology-while keeping his distance from Netanyahu’s stances and exposing many of the unpleasant truths that lie beneath the surface Netanyahu works so hard to polish.” -Bernard Avishai, author of The Hebrew Republic“Weaving together stories from Netanyahu’s time in America and Israel, and from his family history, military service, and political career, Anshel Pfeffer’s fascinating and insightful Bibi paints a portrait of the indomitable outsider who became Israel’s four-time prime minister. Pfeffer’s riveting account illuminates the ways in which the man leading Israel today is both a product and a beneficiary of bitter divides that have shaped the nation’s politics from its earliest days.” -Tamara Cofman Wittes, senior fellow in Middle East policy at the Brookings Institution“Certain to elicit both consternation and praise, Anshel Pfeffer’s Bibi is a fascinating exploration of the complex ideological and familial foundations that continue to shape the thinking and governing of the man who may soon become Israel’s longest serving prime minister. This is a book that will lead both Bibi’s friends as well as his foes to see him in a new-and infinitely more nuanced-light.” -Daniel Gordis, author of Israel: A Concise History of a Nation Reborn“In a care

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