Thursday evening, late November, 2019. On TV screens in convenience stores, bars and cafés in Tel Aviv the attorney general, Avichai Mendelblit, announced that he had decided to bring the prime minister to trial. It was a day on which you could smell history in the air. An axe was hovering over Benjamin Netanyahu’s government. There was broad, if not full, agreement that the man was done for. The prime minister would not be able to run the country and also be in the dock.
