Netanyahu gets political boost in Israel after series of strikes in Lebanon, Yemen [Video]

Two weeks of unprecedented attacks targeting Iranian-backed militias in Lebanon and Yemen have not only restored Israel’s reputation as the most powerful military force in the Middle East, they appear to have refreshed the Israeli public’s confidence in Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Beforehand, Mr. Netanyahu’s political future looked so bleak that one analyst described him as being in a “political hospice.” He was the face of Israel’s controversial war in the Gaza Strip, which has left more than 41,600 Palestinians dead while achieving neither of Israel’s war aims of destroying Hamas – which killed more than 1,100 Israelis in a shocking invasion of southern Israel last Oct. 7 – and returning the more than 100 Israelis and foreigners the militant group still holds hostage.

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