All language subtitles for King.Bibi.2018

NARRATOR: In May 2015,
U.S. President Barack Obama

leads the world's superpowers
in signing a historic agreement with Iran,

lifting economic sanctions

in exchange for
a commitment to restrict
its nuclear program.

The agreement's main opponent
is Israeli prime minister
Benjamin Netanyahu.

(CAMERA SHUTTER CLICKING)

MAN 1: Excuse me, miss.

MAN 2: The Assembly will hear
a statement

by His Excellency
Benjamin Netanyahu,

prime minister,
minister for foreign affairs,

minister for health
and minister for communications

of the state of Israel.

(MEMBERS APPLAUDING)

NETANYAHU: 70 years
after the murder
of six million Jews,

Iran's rulers

promised to destroy
my country,

murder my people.

And the response
from this body

has been...

...absolutely nothing!

Utter silence!

Deafening silence!

Iran lied.

Big time.

After signing the nuclear
deal in 2015,

Iran intensified
its efforts

to hide its secret
nuclear files.

55,000 pages.

Another 55,000 files

on 183 CDs.

DONALD TRUMP: Last week,
Israel published intelligence documents

conclusively showing

the Iranian's regime
and its history

of pursuing nuclear weapons.

Therefore, I am
announcing today

that the United States
will withdraw

from the Iran
nuclear deal.

NARRATOR: America's withdrawal
from the nuclear deal

is the highlight of
Benjamin Netanyahu's long career.

The leader of a small country

had convinced the world's
greatest superpower

to defy the other parties.

How did Netanyahu
become so indispensable

that his supporters
and opponents alike

can't imagine Israel
without him?

(INTENSE MUSIC PLAYING)

(INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC PLAYING)

Netanyahu spends much of his
adolescence in America.

The right-wing views
of his father,

historian
Benzion Netanyahu,

are deemed objectionable under the
ruling left-wing government in Israel.

So he takes his family
to the United States.

There, Bibi encounters
new ideas.

JOHN F. KENNEDY:
The kind of country
we have here,

the kind
of society we have,

the kind of strength
we build in the United States,

will be the defense
of freedom.

NARRATOR: Bibi is shaped
by these two worlds,

Israel and America.

Upon finishing high school
in Philadelphia,

Bibi enlists in
the Israeli army.

He serves five years
in an elite unit,

alongside his beloved
brother, Yoni.

After his release,
he returns to school in Boston,

together with his wife, Miki.

Their daughter, Noa,
is born there.

MAN: Mr. Nitay
is a graduate of MIT.

He's an Israeli.

NETANYAHU: I wanted
to be self-sufficient.

I wanted to be at least
possessing the knowledge

that I could earn my living
and not be dependent on, on politics

to feed my family.

-(HONKING)
-(INDISTINCT CHATTER)

NARRATOR: As he
completes his MBA,

Bibi plans to take
corporate America by storm.

But on Fourth of July, 1976,

he discovers that fate
has other plans for him.

(FIRECRACKERS EXPLODING)

(BAND MUSIC PLAYING)

(CHEERING)

ANCHOR: As America
celebrates its 200th birthday,

Israelis are rejoicing
at a commando raid

that freed 102 hostages.

NARRATOR: While Netanyahu is celebrating
with his friends in Boston,

his brother, Yoni, is leading
an Israeli commando force

in a raid on
Entebbe Airport, Uganda.

Air France Flight 139

had been hijacked by Palestinian
and German terrorists

who demanded the release
of hundreds of terrorists

held in Israeli prisons.

Rather than surrender
to their demands,

Israel's leaders decided
on a bold rescue mission.

ANCHOR: In 36 minutes,
they killed seven hijackers
and 20 Ugandan soldiers.

And they helped the hostages to the
waiting planes and took off again

for the long flight
back to Israel.

104 hostages were rescued.

However, three hostages died
and the raid commander lost his life.

ANCHOR: Israel paid
its dead a final honor today,

to Lieutenant Colonel
Yonatan Netanyahu,

in a state funeral
on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem.

Practically all of Israel's present and
past leaders were there,

along with Netanyahu's
comrades at arms,

and thousands of Israelis
who had never met the commander.

(INDISTINCT CHATTER)

NARRATOR:
The whole world watches as Yoni
Netanyahu is laid to rest.

Bibi is still unknown.

It is the first time he appears
on American prime time.

ANCHOR: Professor Benzion
Netanyahu, his father,

-teaches at Cornell University,
in Ithaca, New York.

The father came here
for the funeral.

(INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC PLAYING)

(AUDIENCE APPLAUDING)

EVA MARIE SAINT:
We would like to present
the Foreign Film award

from Israel,
Operation Thunderbolt.

(THRILLING INSTRUMENTAL
MUSIC PLAYING)

NARRATOR: In less than a year,
the Netanyahu family's tragedy

becomes an
international blockbuster.

NARRATOR: Yoni
becomes a legendary figure.

The family establishes
the Jonathan Institute to study terrorism.

Bibi is now invited to speak
at events honoring Yoni's memory.

He's not bad at it, either.

NETANYAHU: He fought
and died in the war
against terrorism,

and we thought that
the task of the Institute
could be to help

shape the battle

and win the battle against
terrorism, worldwide.

And that was more a political
battle than a military one.

NARRATOR: The legend of Yoni
gives rise to a new hero.

American senators
and top Israeli officials

attend a conference
on terrorism organized by the family.

One of them is Moshe Arens,

Israel's ambassador
to the United States.

He asks Bibi to become
his deputy at the embassy
in Washington.

Bibi accepts the offer
and resigns from his position

as the marketing director
for a large furniture company.

REAGAN: We have held two days
of intensive talks

with Prime Minister Shamir
and his colleagues,

covering a broad
range of subjects

including political,
military cooperation.

NARRATOR:
Bibi positions himself
in center frame.

To his left is an American
president who was once a movie star.

To his right, an Israeli
prime minister with broken English.

Bibi's watching and learning.

These discussions have been
carried out in the spirit

of the conditional friendship

and the common bonds
of mutual understanding

that bind our two countries.

NARRATOR:
Bibi arrives in Washington with his
second wife, Fleur,

a British-American.

When he met her in Boston,
he was still married to Miki,

his childhood sweetheart
from Israel.

Bibi and Fleur fit in easily

in Washington
and New York's high society.

(FIRING)

As anyone who's seen the sights
and listened to the sounds
of war on their television sets

for the last month
knows very well,

the battle of Lebanon
has been ferocious.

NARRATOR: With the Lebanon
war already raging,

Netanyahu is tasked
with defending Israel

from the harsh images
flooding the airwaves,

and sharp criticism
from the U.S. administration.

Which the United States has...

REPORTER: Beirut was a city
of firing squads last night,

of executions against civilians

in their refugee camps
of Sabra and Shatila.

REPORTER:
The Israeli chargee
Benjamin Netanyahu

arrived at
the State Department.

After his meeting
with the acting secretary,

Netanyahu rejected
the U.S. charge

that the Israeli tanks
had attempted to...

NARRATOR:
After an incident between
Israeli and American forces,

and a long night
of discussions,

Bibi makes his first
TV news appearance.

He's tired, disheveled
and unshaven.

It is the last time
his American audience
will ever see him like that.

There was no attempt
whatsoever to cross...

...uh, or to challenge
the American marines

or the territory
that they are holding.

WILDER: Don't talk down.
Don't talk up.

Talk to them,
from your heart.

Bibi takes classes in public speaking
with Lilyan Wilder,

who also coached
Oprah Winfrey and George W. Bush.

WILDER: Of course,
you're not here to learn to act.

But using your own experience

and your own sense of reality
while you're speaking

connects you to your subject
and your audience

as nothing else can.

Acknowledge and believe that you are
a person of intelligence and authority.

Believe you have something
of value to say.

The time to start
saying it is now.

NARRATOR: In the apartment
he shares with Fleur,

Bibi sets up
a makeshift studio

to practice for future
TV appearances.

INTERVIEWER: I'm just gonna
ramble a bit at the start

just so we'll get
a picture of you.

I just... This will be a general discussion
of terrorism which...

Early this morning, you told
an anecdote about the grizzly bear.

I wonder if, in light of your,
your answer just now,

if you could tell that again.

-Let me, let me stop
the camera here for a second.

The attitude of, uh, some governments
in the West reminds me,

uh, of the story
of the grizzly bear,

uh, that appears
in the forest, to...

I'm going to
say it differently.

The attitude of some in the West
regarding terrorism reminds me just of...

(INTERVIEWER LAUGHS)

Shows you the difference
between, uh, politicians
and diplomats and actors.

(LAUGHTER)

(SIGHS)

There is a story
about two people

who walk in the forest

and are suddenly confronted
by a grizzly bear charging at them.

One of them
begins to run away.

The other asks him,
"Why are you running?

"Don't you know
you can't outrun a grizzly bear?"

And the man running
turns around, he says,

"I don't have
to outrun the bear.

"I have to outrun you."

That's the attitude, I think,
of some in the West.

They think that they can run away
from the grizzly bear of terrorism,

and leave a few countries
behind to be gobbled up by it.

But, in fact,
no one can outrun it.

The only thing you can do
with this phenomena

is to turn around, squarely face it,
confront it and defeat it.

And you can only
do that together.

(EXPLOSIONS)

REPORTER: Hijackings, hostages,
bombings, terrorism in all forms.

NARRATOR: In the 1980s,
terrorism spreads around the world,

America's TV audience
is horrified.

REPORTER: Tonight,
they are still counting the dead.

When we return,
we'll talk live,

with Ben Netanyahu,

charge d'affaires at the
Israeli embassy in Washington

and an expert on terrorism.

NARRATOR: Practicing before the
camera helps Netanyahu

express the ideas he absorbed at home
clearly and succinctly.

I think we have to recognize
that the free world is at war.

It's at war with
international terrorism.

This war is arranged
by states...

And the question is, what do you do
against a factory

that produces the modern plague,
the viruses of the modern plague,

-which is terrorism. I think...
-INTERVIEWER: What do we do?

Well, I think what
we have to do is arrest the disease

and strike at the centers
of this, of this cancer.

NARRATOR: Bibi's appearances
on American television

impress
Israel's foreign minister.

At just 35,

he's appointed
Israel's ambassador to the UN.

ANCHOR: Benjamin Netanyahu,
like the country he represents,

believes in attacking
his attackers.

In his recently published book,
Terrorism: How The West Can Win,

Netanyahu presents
a primer for response.

President Reagan read the book
and was so impressed,

he read parts of it aloud
to Secretary of State George Shultz.

Shultz wrote Netanyahu
about that and added,

"The president and Nancy
also saw you on TV,

"and told me they thought
you did a terrific job."

When our citizens are abused
or attacked anywhere in the world,

on the direct orders
of a hostile regime,

we will respond, so long
as I am in this Oval Office.

ANCHOR: When President Reagan
ordered the attack on Libya,

in retaliation for
the West Berlin disco bombing,

he knowingly or unknowingly
subscribed to the Netanyahu Israeli line.

Increasingly, people and governments
are listening to one man

in the fight against terrorism.

Ambassador Netanyahu
is a rising star in world politics.

Some see him as
a future prime minister of Israel.

(TEST SIGNAL BLARING)

(UPBEAT MUSIC PLAYING)

-(AUDIENCE APPLAUDING)
-(IN HEBREW)

(VOCALIZING)

(SINGING IN HEBREW)

NARRATOR: At the time,
Israeli TV had just one channel.

Millions of viewers tuned in
on Friday night to watch its talk show.

They never saw
an Israeli politician

who looked and sounded
like Bibi Netanyahu.

(SINGING CONTINUES)

As ambassador to the United Nations,
Bibi came under considerable criticism.

They said he spent most of his life
in the United States,

and that he was unfamiliar
with Israeli society.

NARRATOR: Though popular
with the American media,

some Israeli journalists
were wary of Netanyahu.

To Bibi, these are
the same people

who held up his
father's academic career.

The family called
them Bolsheviks.

(IN HEBREW)

After you go back to Israel,
you're gonna run for office.

Are you gonna think of us?
Come to the United States?

If you'll invite me, if you,
if you send me the ticket, definitely.

NARRATOR: To Americans,

Netanyahu personifies
Israeli heroism.

Now, if given a chance,
he wants to bring
the American dream to Israel.

(INDISTINCT CHATTER)

Bibi takes off his expensive
suits and loses his tie.

(INDISTINCT CHATTER)

Donors he met in New York
and the crew of eager volunteers

help him run
a new kind of campaign.

But Fleur is not
at home in Israel,

and they soon divorce.

(APPLAUSE)

Netanyahu is appointed
deputy foreign minister

in Yitzhak Shamir's
right-wing government.

(MAN SPEAKING HEBREW)

NARRATOR: His skill
at arguing Israel's case

is needed now,
more than ever.

(SHOUTING)

REPORTER: Scenes from
the occupied territories.

(SIREN BLARING)

The images are brutal.

The blood is flowing,
and the whole world is watching.

NARRATOR: The Palestinians
launch their intifadah,

a revolt against
the Israeli occupation.

The Americans start
pressuring Israel to find
a diplomatic solution.

SOLDIER: When some kid's
throwing stones at me
and I catch him,

and he starts crying
in my hand and he's,
he's a small kid, right?

I feel like I want to, to, to
to pet his head,

and not to want to beat him,
because he's a kid.

I can definitely understand
why they're fighting me, sure.

INTERVIEWER:
For what are their reasons?

What are the reasons?
They're suppressed by us.

Just two hours ago,

Allied air forces
began an attack

on military targets
in Iraq and Kuwait.

ANCHOR: Iraq fired seven
Scud missiles at Tel Aviv this afternoon.

NARRATOR: The first Gulf War restores
Israel's status as victim

and pushes
the Palestinian issue aside.

Netanyahu's ready
for battle.

Five months
before the war,

he instructs
the foreign ministry to set up

TV studios in Jerusalem

to accommodate
hundreds of journalists.

(SIRENS BLARING)

In the midst
of a missile attack,

Bibi offers CNN
an interview like nothing
they've seen before.

(NETANYAHU LAUGHING)

I must say that this is the darnedest
way to conduct an interview,

but, uh, of course,
what it does demonstrate

is the kind of threat
we're facing.

Well, we don't know exactly

what, what the switch was,
to Tel Aviv.

Do we want to go
to Richard Blystone
or, or...

NARRATOR: By night's end,
Netanyahu's performance
would be a major symbol

of the first war
fought live on TV.

Maybe, if you can get with me
on this map...

Look. This is the Arab world.

I'm just going to
put my hands on it

for the benefit of the viewers.

I have a size-10 shoe,
an American size-10 shoe.

I could walk on this map,
on the Arab world.

Here's Israel.
I can cover it with my thumb.

Now that tells me
the whole story.

Israel is one of the tiniest
countries in the world.

WILDER: Bring
something to show.

Visual aids
enhance presentation

because they are
dialoguing devices.

If you can show
as well as tell,

you will have everyone's undivided
attention immediately.

Imagine you're putting together the
main body of a documentary film

in which the narrator tells us

in logical order
what is happening,

while the camera shows
evidence to our eyes.

NARRATOR:
In the summer of 1991,

photographers are invited
to Bibi's wedding to Sara, his third wife.

Covering the private
lives of politicians

is still new
to Israeli journalists.

Now a family man,

Netanyahu is ready
for the next stage in his career.

(AUDIENCE CHEERING
AND APPLAUDING)

(SINGING IN HEBREW)

NARRATOR: While Netanyahu
is planning his campaign,

Israel experiences
a revolution.

Channel One's monopoly
is broken.

New networks emerge
and start to dominate the small screen.

(SINGING CONTINUES)

(REPORTING CONTINUES IN HEBREW)

(CRUNCHING)

(TICKING)

INTERVIEWER:
Are you prepared
tonight to say

that you've never had
an extra-marital affair?

I'm not prepared
tonight to say

that any married couple

should ever

discuss that with anyone
but themselves.

NARRATOR: That night,

spin becomes an intrinsic
part of Israeli politics.

Netanyahu goes from being
an unfaithful husband

Hundreds of Bibi's supporters
demonstrated their love

to the victim
of an alleged crime.

The sex tape features
in hundreds of headlines.

But the police investigation
leads nowhere.

The tape is never found.

(ALL CHEERING)

(CHEERING AND APPLAUSE)

NARRATOR: The day
after his primary victory,

photographers are invited
to document

the Netanyahu
family on their day off.

The crisis in Bibi
and Sara's relationship

is created on camera
and resolved on camera too.

Five years after
returning from America,

Bibi is ready to run
for prime minister.

Six weeks ago,
Benjamin Netanyahu

was elected the leader
of the opposition Likud
party in Israel,

as the Middle East
peace talks continued in Washington.

Netanyahu stands
as the strongest candidate to replace

Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin
in the next Israeli election.

Netanyahu has
just published

A Place Among Nations:
Israel and the World,

and I'm pleased
to have him here. Welcome.

Ah, Conor Cruise O'Brien wrote a review
in The New York Times,

um, rather
complimentary of this,

and when I read it, I said,
"My God, this must be one of your best friends."

-(CHUCKLING) Well, he is now.
-Yeah. Exactly.

What is the message

that you bring
in this book

to people
who care about

the survival and future
of Israel?

I think in the world,
there are two types of peace.

The peace of democracies
which require no strength

and no deterrence,

and no armies and no territories
and no land barriers,

because democracies,
by their nature, tend to peace.

But there's another kind of peace,
and that's the peace of deterrence.

The peace
opposite dictatorships,

where the only thing
that keeps the peace

is the inability of the dictatorships
or the despotisms to go to war.

I think, in this century,

the greatest
tragedies occurred

when the democracies failed to distinguish one
type of peace from another.

(CHEERS AND APPLAUSE)

We have come to try
and put an end

to the hostilities
so that our children,

our children's children,

will no longer experience

the painful cost of war,
violence and terror.

NARRATOR: Standing in Netanyahu's way
is Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin,

a revered general

who led Israel to historic
reconciliation with
the Palestinians.

Clinton sees Rabin
as a father figure.

The peace process is
one of the most important
projects of his presidency.

(ALL CHEERING)

(SINGING IN HEBREW)

NARRATOR: With Israel in
a state of euphoria,

Netanyahu's gloomy predictions
seemed detached from reality.

(ALL LAUGHING)

NARRATOR: The press
supports the peace process and Rabin.

Bibi, who opposes the process,
finds himself marginalized.

(APPLAUSE)

WILDER: Invite your audience
to relate to how you think and feel,

to understand the truth
in what you have to say.

Ask yourself these
key questions.

"Who am I talking to?
What do I want to say to them?

"Why do I think these people
need to hear this from me now?"

And remember, the essence
of persuasion is,

"What do I want
them to do?"

(CROWD CHEERING)

(HELICOPTER HOVERING)

NARRATOR:
Palestinian terrorists try to stop
the Oslo Accords.

The first suicide bombing
by Hamas in downtown Tel Aviv

leaves Israelis
feeling helpless.

News studios had no time
to censor the images.

Bibi is first to arrive
at the scene.

(INDISTINCT CHATTER)

NETANYAHU: I saw...

Behind the experience of...

Indescribable agony,

that the stench of death
is everywhere.

Um, I think that Mr. Rabin bears

a very grave
responsibility indeed.

I don't shut myself off
in my office.

(CROWD CHANTING)

(CROWD BOOING)

-(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
-(CAMERA SHUTTER CLICKING)

ANCHOR: Truly shocking news
from the Middle East tonight.

Israel's Prime Minister
Yitzhak Rabin has been assassinated.

The alleged assassin
is in custody,

described as a Jewish law student
active in right-wing causes.

CLINTON: Your prime minister
was a martyr for peace.

But he was
a victim of hate.

NETANYAHU:
He was a man of courage.

A man of vision.

And he was endowed with one
of the greatest virtues

that any man can have.
He was endowed with humility.

(CAMERA SHUTTERS CLICKING)

(INAUDIBLE)

NARRATOR: The whole world
stops to watch Rabin's funeral.

For so many Israelis
and the U.S. president,

Netanyahu emerges as
the villain in this saga.

(SINGING IN HEBREW)

NARRATOR: Shimon Peres
replaces Rabin.

The media embraces him,
and the polls predict a resounding victory.

President Clinton comes to Israel
to show his support.

Top Likud party officials look
into replacing Netanyahu.

MAN: Arthur?

NARRATOR:
But Bibi won't give up.

-(APPLAUSE)
-He recruits Arthur Finkelstein,

a senior American
political consultant

who worked for
Nixon and Reagan.

Finkelstein polls show
that conservative forces in Israel

are much stronger
than portrayed by the press.

Since there are more people who call
themselves conservatives

than call themselves liberals,

our job in race after race
after race

is to make it
conservative versus liberal.

It's just that simple.

NARRATOR:
Finkelstein's guide to victory includes
short, simple messages

and a systematic disparagement of
the rival candidate.

NARRATOR: His studio
outside Jerusalem

simulates the office
of the U.S. president.

NARRATOR:
Despite Finkelstein's efforts,

Peres still leads
in the polls.

But then, the terrorist
attacks return.

-(SIRENS APPROACHING)
-NETANYAHU: (IN HEBREW)

NARRATOR:
One week before the election,

Finkelstein and Bibi
cloister themselves in a hotel room

to prepare for Israel's
first election debate,

aired by the new
commercial Channel Two.

NARRATOR: Peres looks tired.
In the first 10 minutes,

he says just 301 words,

compared to Bibi's 576.

(ALL CHEERING)

NARRATOR: The ultra-Orthodox
parties throw their support

behind Netanyahu.

They use
a controversial slogan

which isolates Israel's
Arab population

and evokes criticism
from the Left.

Its message will get
stronger over the years.

Bibi is good for the Jews.

NARRATOR: Half a year
after Rabin's assassination,

the man whose campaign

was deemed a lost cause
by the press,

ends the night as the winner.

(CHEERS AND APPLAUSE)

I hope he follows through
on the agreement.

But, um... (LAUGHS)
I don't know.

I am worried.
I am scared.

And I'm sad.

(CROWD CHEERING)

(CROWD CHEERING)

(INAUDIBLE)

(CHANTING CONTINUES)

NARRATOR: After his victory,

Bibi's life is like
a dream come true.

He defeated the Left,
the media,

and even
an American president

who campaigned against him.

The journey that began
with his brother's death

came to a happy ending.

(LAUGHING)

Just a minute. Let's get
everyone in first.

This is the most genteel
press of all,

-the Israeli press...
-Yes.

All pussycats here.

Let me,
first of all, say,

I am delighted to have
the prime minister here,

I've looked forward
to having a chance

to have this
conversation.

NARRATOR:
After their first meeting
at the White House,

Clinton tells one
of his advisors

that Bibi acts as if he's the leader
of the world's greatest superpower.

(APPLAUSE)

NARRATOR: At age 46,

the man raised and educated
in the United States

returns to address Congress.

WOMAN: Mr. Speaker,
the prime minister of Israel.

(INDISTINCT)

Do you know
where my wife is, by any chance?

She's up there.

(INDISTINCT)

I don't see her.

MAN: Since his election,

Prime Minister Netanyahu
has expressed his determination

to dismantle
the socialist structure

that dominates Israel's
economic system.

And the time has come
to change Israel,

to move it forward,
to make it, I think,

one of the great successes

of the close
of the 20th century and I think...

NARRATOR: Bibi is planning
an American revolution in Israel.

He promises his donors
rapid privatizations

and unbridled capitalism.

He appoints a chief of staff

and a national
security advisor,

two positions which did
not exist before.

(INDISTINCT)

He holds some
of his meetings in English,

with advisors raised
and educated in the United States like him.

Much of their time
is devoted to handling the media.

(CROWD APPLAUDING)

NARRATOR: Bibi's
American revolution

runs into a wary media.

Journalists won't forgive him
for the events

leading up to Rabin's
assassination.

Publishers are concerned of his plans
for the media market.

NARRATOR: The bickering
gets personal.

Unflattering photos
are chosen intentionally.

Stories about
her abuse of staff

and obsessive meddling
in state affairs

make Sara Netanyahu
an easy target.

An investigative report
in Yedioth Ahronoth,

Israel's most
widely read paper,

reveals embarrassing
information about her.

NARRATOR:
To handle the crisis
surrounding Sara,

the prime minister's office

agrees to a
pre-recorded interview

with an established
journalist.

NARRATOR: Sara cuts
the interview short.

She's furious
about the questions.

Her outburst at the crew
is cut in editing.

(CROWD CHEERING)

(DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING)

NARRATOR:
Bibi and Sara feel like

they live
in a topsy-turvy world.

The people admire them,

but the media
is still critical.

(CROWD CHEERING)

To improve their public image,

they allow a film crew
to follow them for a year.

(PIANO PLAYING INDISTINCTLY)

MAN: Benjamin Netanyahu
is in his third marriage.

His union with Sara
has produced two young sons...

NARRATOR: It's the first
and last glimpse

that viewers get
of day-to-day life

in the prime minister's
residence.

-MAN: Sara has been lampooned...
-(PHONE RINGING)

...by Israel's merciless
columnists and satirists

as a domestic tyrant.

The hostile coverage has left its scars.

(GROANS)

(GUNSHOTS)

(SIREN BLARING)

NARRATOR: The peace
and quiet Bibi promised
is shattered quickly.

(CLAMORING)

He decides to open
the Western Wall Tunnel,

right next to Jerusalem's
Al-Aqsa Mosque.

The Palestinians
rise up in protest.

(SIRENS BLARING)

Dozens of Israelis
and Palestinians

are killed in the riots.

Bibi's image
as a security hawk is challenged.

The generals, who often
become prime ministers,

consider him an outsider.

Clinton forces him
to meet with Arafat

and sign the Hebron protocols,

transferring control of the city
to the Palestinians.

After all his speeches
and demonstrations

against
the Palestinian leader,

Bibi's base sees him
shaking hands

with Arafat again and again.

The need to move ahead
with the peace process

despite his right-wing
government

forces Bibi to attempt
a tangled political maneuver

that ends with his
first criminal investigation.

An expose by Channel One News,

which he detests,

found that he made a deal
with his interior minister, Aryeh Deri.

Bibi will appoint
an attorney general

who will close
the bribery charges

being brought against Deri,

in exchange
for Deri's support

of the Hebron accords.

ANCHOR: Headlines
in Israel's morning papers

screamed of the scandal
that is rocking the country.

For the first time
in the nation's history,

police have called
for the indictment

of a prime minister
on criminal charges.

NARRATOR: The police
launch an investigation

and recommend
indicting Netanyahu.

But the attorney general
closes the case for lack of evidence.

Still, he is very critical

of the prime minister's
behavior.

Many ministers also
expressed their concern
and misgivings.

(CROWD CLAMORING)

Bibi! Bibi!

NARRATOR: Thanks
to his struggle with the media,

Netanyahu,
the son of a professor

and a product of an elite
American education,

comes to represent
the common people.

(TAPE CLICKS)

(WHIRRING)

WILDER: Why is getting
an immediate response

so critically important?

Because when you make
that initial connection. to a listener,

you are no longer isolated

or all alone up there
in the spotlight.

You are inviting them
to come with you

to a destination
you have chosen.

Once the journey begins,

you'll be surprised
and delighted

at how your fear will fade.

NARRATOR: Bibi launches
the first website for the prime minister's office.

A decade before the rise
of social networks,

Netanyahu lays the groundwork

for direct contact with voters.

(INTENSE MUSIC PLAYING)

NARRATOR: Clinton
continues to pressure Bibi

to move forward
with the peace process.

Netanyahu and Arafat
sign the Wye Accords,

which includes more
concessions of territory.

The agreement
is never implemented,

but the far right still
considers Bibi a traitor.

The Haaretz newspaper,

even publishes
a critical interview

with Bibi's own father,

Benzion Netanyahu.

Clinton's advisors

arrive in Israel to help Bibi's
election rival.

Ehud Barak
is a decorated general.

-He was Yoni Netanyahu's
close friend and commander.

(CHEERING)

(CROWD APPLAUDING)

(CROWD APPLAUDING)

NARRATOR: Netanyahu
is behind in the polls,

but his most devoted followers
remain loyal.

They accompany him
from one studio to the next.

(CROWD BOOING)

(CROWD YELLING)

(IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE)

(CHANTING)

(CROWD BOOING)

(WHISTLING)

(CROWD YELLING)

(SOMBER MUSIC)

(INAUDIBLE)

NARRATOR: Bibi's return
to public life,

passes through terrorism,
the media and America.

MAN 1: Today, we're fortunate
to have with us someone

who's been leading
the fight against terrorism

for most of his life.

MAN 2: And there are many of us,
and I'm certainly one of them,

who considers you, frankly,
the Winston Churchill of our times.

The application of power

is the most important thing
in winning the war on terrorism.

If I had to say,
what are the three principles

of winning the war
on terror,

it's like what are
the three principles of real estate,

the three "L"s.
Location, location, location.

The three principles
of winning the war in terror,

are the three "W"s.

Winning, winning and winning.

The more victories you amass,

the easier
the next victory becomes.

And therefore, I think
the choice of Iraq

is a good choice,
it's the right choice.

NARRATOR: Bibi uses
his break from politics

for business
and the lecture circuit.

He sees how quickly
the world is changing.

(SHRIEKS)

MARK ZUCKERBERG:
When we first launched,
we were hoping for, you know,

maybe, 400, 500 people.

Now, we're at
100,000 people,

so who knows
where we are going next.

TRUMP: We've never had
a team lose so bad.

You're all fired.
All four are fired.

A huge explosion
rocking the office of the U.S...

NARRATOR: Traditional media
is losing traction.

Bibi finds the success
of Fox News,

the popular
conservative outlet,

particularly intriguing.

He starts planning
his return to power.

Netanyahu makes
a list of donors

with whom he should
develop a closer
relationship.

At the bottom of his list
are millionaires.

At the top, billionaires.

Some have been there
for him since the 1980s.

They help Bibi and Sara

maintain the same lifestyle
they were used to.

One donor, Sheldon Adelson,

launches a newspaper
which plays a pivotal role

in Netanyahu's
return to power.

NARRATOR: Adelson
invests a fortune in Israel Today.

It is handed out for free,

and soon has the highest
circulation in the country.

(INDISTINCT CHATTER)

Netanyahu is in constant contact
with the paper's editors.

He's personally involved
in its headlines,

articles and opinion pieces.

The Israeli people
were not getting

a fair and balanced view
of the news and views.

They're attacking, uh,
Bibi all the time.

Just attacking.

Likud Supporters
are called to the ballots

NARRATOR: After a decade
of failed attempts,

Bibi has a real chance
of winning the 2009 election.

NARRATOR: Netanyahu
recruits his father

to rehabilitate his image
with right-wing supporters.

ANCHOR: Benjamin Netanyahu

has been formally tapped
to put together

Israel's next government.

NARRATOR: Bibi
learned his lesson.

He returns to power
stronger and more experienced.

Over the next
three terms at least,

he continues the revolution
he began in the 1990s

that shapes Israel
into a very different place.

This time, he won't be
pushed out so easily.

Mr. Vice President,

do you remember the time

that we were
the new kids in town?

(CROWD LAUGHING)

(CROWD APPLAUDING)

NARRATOR: Bibi spent
decades studying America.

No foreign leader knows
Washington's inner workings

better than
the Israeli prime minister.

They said that Bibi
is an American.

But he really used everything
he learnt about the U.S.

to serve Israel's interests,
as he sees them.

NETANYAHU: I think
for there to be peace,

the Palestinians
will have to accept

some basic realities.

It cannot go back
to the 1967 alliance.

ANCHOR: It was a stone-faced
Barack Obama

and Netanyahu basically
treating him like a schoolboy.

Thank you.

NARRATOR: His clashes
with Obama create tensions

but they also strengthened
Netanyahu's stature

in the Republican Party,

and conservative circles
in Washington.

Bibi becomes
an articulate spokesman
for the new conservatism

in the United States,

and the antithesis of Obama.

OBAMA: Did you know
that Sheldon Adelson

spent $100 million
of his own money last year

on negative ads.

You've got
to really dislike me...

(CROWD LAUGHING)

...to spend that
kinda money.

Sheldon would've been
better off offering me

$100 million
to drop out of the race.

(CROWD LAUGHING, APPLAUSE)

(SIREN WAILING)

NARRATOR: More than ever,
he presents Israel

as standing on the front lines
of a culture war

between Islam and the West.

The battle between
good and evil

is reaching its climax.

NETANYAHU: The medieval
forces of radical Islam,

they want to destroy
Israel, Europe, America.

They want to end
the modern world.

NARRATOR: What
began with lessons

on addressing the cameras
in the 1980s,

becomes a performance
that leaves the world riveted.

Here's the diagram.

This is a bomb.

This is a fuse...

Here's a piece
of the remaining...

That indicates
of Iran's nuclear...

(OVERLAPPING CHATTER)

This bomb has
been filled...

You can see it
for yourself.

...with enough
in rich uranium...

They contain...

And Iran has
to go through

three stages.
Do you recognize this?

NARRATOR: Bibi's performance
becomes part of his policy.

And his status
only grows stronger.

(PULSATING MUSIC)

Fear overruns,
silences all debate.

The Israeli welfare
state is privatized and disappears.

The Palestinians are hidden
behind fences.

The settlements
are thriving.

So far, at least,
Netanyahu has given Israelis

more security and stability
than ever.

He proves to them
that despite terrorism,

the occupation
and the casualties,

they can still live
a good life

in the only democracy
in the Middle East.

My name is Donald Trump
and I am a big fan of Israel.

And frankly,
a strong prime minister

is a strong Israel.

And you truly have a great
prime minister,

in Benjamin Netanyahu.

There's nobody like him.

He's a winner,
he's highly respected,

he's highly thought of by all.

Terrific guy, terrific leader,

great for Israel.

CHARLIE ROSE: You had
a resounding electoral victory in Israel.

Many people didn't
expect it would be

as big as it was.

Mmm.

Um...

How many terms as prime minister
do you want to serve?

You're already

either the longest serving,
or the second-longest serving.

-Second.
-Hmm. Who's counting?

(INAUDIBLE)

NARRATOR:
Bibi continues to bask in the spotlight
of the American media.

In Israel,
as his status grows,

he practically
stops giving interviews.

He decides what
he will talk about,

when and with whom.

He picks his makeup,

hair color, and even
the room's temperature.

We no longer see him sweat.

We no longer hear him stutter.

He appoints himself
minister of communications.

NARRATOR: His son, Yair,

starts getting involved
in government, too.

His friends are appointed
new media consultants

for the prime minister.

Bibi's Facebook page
soon has more followers

than any Israeli politician
or media outlet.

NARRATOR: The government
press office releases staged videos

of Netanyahu and his family

in happy, optimistic moments.

The personality cult around
Bibi and Sara soars.

The media still publishes
embarrassing stories

about Bibi and his family.

There is growing evidence
over the lavish lifestyle

on the public's dime.

NARRATOR: The police
also investigate

the Netanyahu family's
efforts to influence the media market.

The people closest to Bibi

are suspected of bribery

in a sensitive defense deal.

Yet despite
all the publicity,

people admire Bibi
and Sara even more.

(INDISTINCT CHATTER)

(CLAMORING)

(CROWD CHANTING)
Bibi! Bibi! Bibi!

VINCENT HARRIS:
We really live in a world

of short attention spans.

NARRATOR:
Arthur Finkelstein

is replaced
by Vincent Harris,

a 26-year-old Texan
media strategist

who specializes in harvesting
Facebook data.

How do you get

a policy discussion going

in a ten-second snap?

How do you talk about

the Israeli-Palestinian crisis

in 140 characters?

NARRATOR: After decades
attacking the media and the Left,

Netanyahu needs
just one sentence

to tell the people
who its real enemies are.

(CROWD CHEERING)

(CROWD CHEERING)

NARRATOR: Netanyahu's
tactics are rejected

by many in Israel
and around the world.

But they are accepted
and admired by others.

So far, Bibi's political gambles
are paying off.

Bibi.

(INDISTINCT CHATTER)

(CAMERAS CLICKING)

(CHUCKLES) Okay.

TRUMP: This is a battle

between barbaric criminals

who seek to obliterate
human life

and decent people.

This is a battle
between good and evil.

-Great.
-We are very glad to be here.

Welcome to our palace. (LAUGHS)

It's very homey, very modest.

But thanks to you,
we could paint the walls.

We got a budget
to paint the walls.

And I want you
first to meet our boy.

Sara, Jared.
Have you seen him?

-Oh, hi there. I know him.
-That's the son-in-law.

Yes, I know you
since you were a kid.

NARRATOR: President Trump's
visit to the prime minister's
residence is aired live.

The excitement of the event

exposes moments
that are usually hidden
from the public.

-This is my son.
-Hello. Hello. Nice to meet you.

I'm a big, big fan
of both of you.

I heard about you so much
from my mother.

She talks about you
all the time.

You know, I can relate a lot
to what Barron is going through,

because I was his age
in my dad's first term.

They were doing satires about me,
when I was 3 years old.

(INDISTINCT CHATTER)

NARRATOR: We don't know
what Bibi and Trump discussed privately.

Maybe they mentioned
Vincent Harris.

After his success
with Netanyahu,

he went on to join
the Trump team.

(INDISTINCT)

After bringing America
to Israel,

Bibi's bringing
Israel to America.

His attacks
on the establishment and the media,

which started in the 1990s,

are now a trademark
of top politicians.

Especially the leader
of the world's greatest superpower.

MAN: Thank you very much.

Thank you
very much.

Thank you.
Thank you.

NARRATOR: Like Trump,

Bibi's actions lead
to a clash with the law.

His endless obsession
with his image and the media

threatened Netanyahu's
very survival.

(CROWD CHEERING)

He's suspected
of attempting

to bribe media tycoons

to improve their coverage
of him and his family.

ANCHOR: Israeli prime minister
Benjamin Netanyahu

is now in the midst
of a major political scandal.

He's under investigation
for bribery, fraud

and breach of trust,

and things may have
just gotten a whole lot worse.

NARRATOR: The police
recommend that he
and Sara be indicted.

But Bibi knows that
regardless of what they find,

he can always
tell his supporters

his version of events.

WILDER: Public speaking
is an art.

Like any art, it requires
dedication and practice.

If you follow
the seven-step program,

you will taste the joys
that fearless speaking can bring.

The magic of
getting a response,

the pleasure of tapping
your own creativity,

the power of persuasion,

the overwhelming rightness
one feels

when speaking
with an objective

and from conviction.

But this is only a beginning.

It is my fervent hope

that the seven steps
to fearless speaking

becomes an ongoing
resource for you.

And that you continue to grow

and to revel in your
newfound voice.

(INDISTINCT
OVERLAPPING CHATTER)