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Colette Avital is one of the female pioneers in Israel's foreign service and had a long political career. But she's been tied to one of the ugliest rumors ever spread in Israel: She’s Peres’ lover, it was said; that’s how she rose up the ladder. Nothing could be further from the truth
Translated from Hebrew by Rebecca K. Koenigsberg. Edited by Helaine Schweitzer. Posted on July 20, 2021. A decade ago I asked my readers to imagine an alternative existence in which Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the U.S. Republican leader in Congress change places. In this scenario, Netanyahu becomes the Republican leader, committed to a free market and a hawkish foreign policy, focused on the Israeli-American alliance, and engages in mutual support of the religious right and the populist movements. The Republican leader who would change places with Netanyahu would make Aliyah to Is...