1st Edition

Netanyahu and Likud’s Leaders The Israeli Princes

By Gil Samsonov Copyright 2020
408 Pages 33 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

408 Pages 33 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

408 Pages 33 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This research discusses the second-generation Likud leaders, known as the Princes, who have dominated Israeli politics for most of the last three decades: their relations with their parents and the extent to which they have followed in (or diverged from) their footsteps. The main theme seeks to explore the unique, perhaps unprecedented, socio-political phenomenon of generational... Read more

Introduction  Part I – Pain and Pride  Part II – The Diadochi Wars  Part III – From Princes to Kings  Part IV - Likud Breakaway Becomes the Party of Sharon, Olmert and Livni  Part V - The Father, the Son, and the Iranian Nuclear Threat  Postscript

Biography

Gil Samsonov is a managing partner in one of the top advertising firms in Israel, graduated from Tel-Aviv University, and got a PhD from King’s College London. Samsonov has led numerous national and local election and general campaigns in Israel, and he is a senior political and marketing commentator in the Israeli television, radio and press.