Opinion | Netanyahu has a chance to prove that he is also a "man" Israel today

This will probably not be just Netanyahu's last chance to be re-elected prime minister.

This will also be his last chance to prove he knows how to be a "man" as well.

"Manash", according to the dictionary definition, is "a person, honest, decent, one whose word can be trusted."

But somehow, this popular Yiddish phrase better explains what is meant.

Anyone who has allowed himself for years to scatter an endless trail of idle promises, without cover, and become their "serial violator" - both on a personal level, in front of colleagues and rivals, and in front of the public - will finally, if only a "man", prove To us that he also knows otherwise.

Anyone who has become accustomed to surrounding himself with a bunch of flatterers, pinchers and sayers, who walk around him on their fingertips and straighten a line with him according to a pre-prepared message page, will be able to present us something different this time.

Bibi's list of victims and expelled over the years is long and very disturbing: from the days of Dan Meridor to the days of Kahlon, and Bennett and Shaked, and Saar and Elkin, and in between - dozens, many more good and expensive.

Netanyahu has been surrounded for years by a constant sense of threat.

It is intensified when alongside him grow popular and successful figures who bring with them beyond personal loyalty their own added value and baggage.

The upcoming elections will provide Netanyahu with an opportunity to prove that he is capable of growing alongside him and accommodating big people as well, and not just small and scared people;

Share with them credit and accomplishments, not just failures.

Who knows - maybe even bring back to him some abandoners who formed other parties and actually brought about his overthrow from power last year.

He should try differently here as well.

He may still be surprised.

Netanyahu is a supreme politician who has never publicly admitted his mistakes.

Everyone is wrong.

Netanyahu, too.

Whoever does - is wrong, and Bibi is the first to know it.

But Netanyahu has never publicly admitted to the public his mistakes, his weaknesses, his shortcomings.

It is not only inhuman, it also ensures continued malfunctions and breakdowns.

He should try to be a "man" here too.

He will probably find that here too it is more lucrative.

Oh, yes, there is something else, quite elementary: to tell the truth to the public.

Do not just conduct surveys based on what the public ostensibly wants to hear.

Surveys may not be the only, or even the main, tool that shapes content and substance and message.

The public wants to hear the truth, even when it is not pleasant to his ears.

He asks to be shared in constraints, which lead to unpopular decisions.

The public hates being smeared with spins and lies.

When all this happens, if it happens - naive we are not - Bibi may find that the pathological and morbid hatred towards him from the general public is beginning to dissipate.

His poverty - he will no longer be.

It's too big for Netanyahu, but at least a little less arrogant, and maybe just a little more "punishing"?

Were we wrong?

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