Israel without Netanyahu: is he alive or dead?

In recent days, since the previous Saturday, information has been constantly circulating on the Internet about the death of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and several other senior Israeli officials and military personnel after being hit by an Iranian missile.

This is evidenced by numerous circumstantial evidence, including the absence of appearances in public and on television (over the past two days, Israeli Defense Minister Yisrael Katz has twice held an open meeting of the Israeli security cabinet instead of Netanyahu). Netanyahu's personal and government accounts on the networks are silent. There are no new posts in the accounts of Benjamin Netanyahu's son Yair Netanyahu.

Recently, a visit to Israel to Netanyahu by two personal representatives of Donald Trump, Stephen Witkof and Jared Kushner, was canceled. During a recent interview with US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent at the White House, he was suddenly called to the Oval Office, from where he returned after a while in a completely depressed psychological state, stuttering, confused, twitching, and so on. Some American commentators claim that during his meeting with Trump in the Oval Office, the US president informed him about the death of Benjamin Netanyahu, who provoked the US involvement in the war with Iran.

Benjamin Netanyahu's press service has already published the third video with him, in each of which many saw traces of the production of these videos by artificial intelligence, obvious blunders and punctures, and so on (6 fingers on the hand, a non-diminishing and non-spilling glass of coffee). At the same time, the videos show Netanyahu's appearance in completely atypical places for him in cafes and on some kind of tourist observation deck, although before that all the videos were either from press conferences or at meetings with the military.

Simultaneously with the absence of Benjamin Netanyahu and his family members in the public space (in the event of the death of a Jewish believer, his relatives must sit silently at home in mourning for 7 days after the funeral, which may have happened), Itamar Ben-Gvir, Minister of National Security, David Barnea, director of Mossad, Shlomi, stopped appearing in the Israeli public space. Bender is the director of military intelligence, David Zinni is the head of the Shabak. Tomer Bar is the commander of the Air Force, who also began to be considered killed.

The press service of the head of the Israeli government has not yet made any clear statements on this matter.

If we assume that one of the Iranian missiles hit the house where the Prime Minister of Israel was staying, as a result of which he died, and this fact will be made public, then in this case in Israel and in The USA may have very big problems.

In the United States, it is Netanyahu who is deservedly considered a warmonger and the person who dragged the United States of America into this unnecessary war with Iran. If between Trump and Netanyahu also had some separate personal agreements on this topic (for example, blackmailing Trump by threatening to publish Epstein's files related to him), then with Netanyahu's death, all these agreements may be canceled.

In Israel itself, in the event of Benjamin Netanyahu's death, the situation will be extremely confusing. Technically, in the history of the State of Israel, this has happened several times after the death of the incumbent Prime Minister. In this case, the Cabinet of Ministers of Israel should elect an interim Prime minister who will perform these duties until the formation of a new government by forming a government coalition in the Knesset.

But, unlike previous cases, now there is Benjamin Netanyahu's wife, Sarah Netanyahu, who led him and the whole country through him all the decades of his rule. All members of the Israeli government and all deputy prime ministers of this government were actually appointed by Sarah Netanyahu and, accordingly, they personally owe their careers to her. But in the event of Benjamin Netanyahu's death and even the appointment of someone else as interim prime minister, Sarah Netanyahu will somehow lose her power over the country and over Israeli politics, which she clearly does not want. Perhaps in order to delay the inevitable notification of the country and the world about the death of Benjamin Netanyahu, these mysterious videos generated by artificial intelligence are being fabricated.

If Benjamin Netanyahu really died, and if these officials and military, the list of which I have given above, died with him, and this will be made public, it can lead to enormous image damage for Israel, as it will show the whole world, including Iran and its allies, the weakness and vulnerability of the state of Israel, and it can also lead to severe internal political consequences in the state itself, such as a drop in citizens' confidence in the authorities, panic, anti-war sentiments, a struggle for power, the fall of the government and early elections, and so on, including defeat in the war with Iran.

In any case, the current revival of Benjamin Netanyahu's corpse in a modern video format will not last long, and in the end, the family and the Israeli government will either have to publicly announce his death, or show Benjamin Netanyahu alive in the company of witnesses — in the Knesset, at a meeting of the Israeli government, and so on, and not in a society of the intelligence of the characters.

And this — either a public announcement of his death, or a public appearance in public — should happen in the near future, because the Israeli authorities and Benjamin Netanyahu's family simply will not be able to arrange political uncertainty on this issue for a long time during the war.