The price of Benjamin Netanyahu’s ambition – the Prime Minister seems unable to distinguish between his own interests and his country’s

A biographical piece on incumbent Isreali Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu: his history, his father and brother, his time as Prime Minister, wide spread protests on the streets about the economy, losing the election, "a series of criminal corruption indictments", and then in 2022,

Netanyahu reclaimed the one position that provided refuge from prosecution—his old job

This sounds a little bit familiar:

It wasn’t just the Tel Aviv left that had come to view Netanyahu as a threat to the state. Even old allies on the right could no longer ignore the spectacle of his narcissism and self-dealing. Michael Oren, a former member of the Knesset and Ambassador to the U.S. under Netanyahu, was one of many who trotted out the apocryphal remark of Louis XIV, “L’état, c’est moi”—the state is me—to characterize the Prime Minister’s attitude. Netanyahu, Oren told me, “seems unable to distinguish between personal and political interests.” Ami Ayalon, the former head of Shin Bet, the country’s internal security service, described Netanyahu to me as “a person who will sell out everyone and everything in order to stay in power.” Moshe Ya’alon, the defense minister from 2013 to 2016, told me that Netanyahu’s ideology is now “personal political survival,” adding that his coalition partners “don’t represent the vast majority of the Israeli people” and are “so messianic that they believe in Jewish supremacy—‘Mein Kampf’ in the opposite direction. They’ve taken Netanyahu hostage.”

The second half contains an account from the Oct 7 Hamas attack survivor, Avichai Brodutch, and his wife and kids who were held captive (now safe), that's very much worth reading even if you don't care about the Prime Minister and foreign politics. What does he think of the Netanyahu government and a proposal of ceasefire?