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Photographic portrait of Benjamin Netanyahu in a suit, 2023.

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Benjamin Netanyahu

Country
Israel
Era
b. 1949
Tradition
National conservatism, economic liberalism

Israel’s longest-serving Prime Minister, who liberalised the economy as finance minister, expanded settlement building, normalised relations with several Arab states, and pursued a judicial overhaul that drew mass protests.

01

Documented positions

Documented positions come from the sources listed. Similarity is this project’s inference from those positions, and is a much weaker claim.

  • Market liberalisation, privatisation and welfare reduction as finance minister from 2003
  • Support for settlement expansion in the West Bank
  • The Abraham Accords (2020), normalising relations with the UAE, Bahrain and Morocco
  • Nation-State Law (2018), defining Israel as the nation-state of the Jewish people
  • The 2023 judicial overhaul, which would have limited Supreme Court review, and the protests against it
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Where it sits on each dimension

Wealth and inequality

78

Evidence: Well documented

The state in the economy

76

Evidence: Well documented

Personal liberty

38

Evidence: Documented

Tradition and change

22

Evidence: Well documented

Nation and the world

92

Evidence: Well documented

Religion and the state

70

Evidence: Well documented

Power and its limits

24

Evidence: Documented

Crime and punishment

20

Evidence: Documented

Dimensions left unscored, for want of evidence: Environment and growth

Sources

  • Basic Law: Israel as the Nation-State of the Jewish People · Knesset · 2018
  • Abraham Accords Declaration · 2020

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