Get the latest gossip
‘The Bibi Files’ Review: A Powerful Exposé of How Benjamin Netanyahu Has Prolonged the War in Gaza to Escape His Own Corruption Scandal
Alexis Bloom's riveting film is built around leaked tapes of Netanyahu's interrogation by police. He's as sly an actor as he is ruthless an autocrat.
He’s accused of bribery and fraud, the heart of the charges relating to gifts he’s received — a pattern of sponging off the “generosity” of wealthy and influential friends, tycoons who plied Bibi and his wife, Sara, with Cohiba cigars, rivers of champagne, and very expensive jewelry. ” He is played tape recordings of witnesses detailing his transgressions, the illegal deals he has made (like when he facilitated bank loans of $250 million for the Israeli cell-phone tycoon Shaul Elovitch and, in exchange, gained editorial control of the popular youth political website Walla). '” What happened then was that the center-left parties in the Knesset decided to ban him, and that made Netanyahu — out of the sheer need to survive — gravitate to the far right, allying himself with figures like Bezalel Smotrich, an active supporter of anti-Palestinian terrorism, and Itmar Ben-Gvit, who openly celebrated the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin.
Or read this on Variety
