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Benjamin Netanyahu will be 77 on election day. He has a pacemaker, had radiotherapy for cancer last year, and confuses names and places more often. Why doesn't anyone in Israel seem to care?

arieh.substack.comWhy isn’t Netanyahu’s age an issue?Benjamin Netanyahu will be 77 on election day. He has a pacemaker, secretly had cancer and confuses names and places. Nobody seems to care.

Arieh Kovler

@ariehkovler.com

Maybe partly because Israel has a tradition of old prime ministers? Of the 14 people who’ve served as prime minister of the state of Israel, eight of them were elected or re-elected at 70 or older.

Arieh Kovler

@ariehkovler.com

But this is against the grain in Israel. It's not like the US, where Congress is full of people in their 70s and a fair crop are 80+.

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Arieh Kovler

@ariehkovler.com

More thoughts on age in politics in the article, here:

arieh.substack.comWhy isn’t Netanyahu’s age an issue?Benjamin Netanyahu will be 77 on election day. He has a pacemaker, secretly had cancer and confuses names and places. Nobody seems to care.

Joshua Murray-Nevill

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It never ceases to amaze me how they know he's a total bastard (even those to his Right who want to take over), but they're totally mystified as to how to get rid of him.