Benjamin Netanyahu mocks rumours of his death in coffee shop sketch
Benjamin Netanyahu has put unfounded conspiracy theories surrounding his death to bed in a new video.
In a video captioned ‘They say I’m what? Watch this…’ the Israeli leader says, ‘I am dead… for coffee,’ as he makes his order at a coffee shop.
He also tries to joke about his demise using a common Hebrew phrase that roughly translates to loving something to death.
‘I love my nation to death,’ he says, ‘and how they are conducting themselves.’
He holds up his 10 fingers to the camera, dispelling rumours confirmed by Grok, that his latest conference was actually an AI version of him.
In the video, he says that Israelis should leave their homes for a ‘breath of fresh air’, but remain near shelters as Iran ups strikes.
He also promised Israelis that the government restrictions on activity will be lifted as soon as possible.
‘Your support is amazing—it empowers me, the government, the IDF’, he said.
‘We’re doing things I can’t share now, but very strong operations in Iran & Lebanon today too.
‘To everyone: keep following Home Front Command orders at all times.
‘Even heads of state—star always near a protected room. We’ll do our best.’
He jokes: ‘Thanks for the coffee. I don’t know about calories… this looks dangerous for me’.
Iran’s Revolutionary Guard vows to ‘pursue and kill child-killer’ Netanyahu
Tehran on Sunday promised to kill Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as the U.S.-Israel war on Iran continued to threaten oil supplies in the Gulf.
‘IRGC vows to pursue and kill ‘child-killer’ Netanyahu if he is still alive,’ Iran’s IRNA news agency said in a post on X, referring to the country’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.
Israel in return targeted key members of Iran’s leadership over the weekend.
The Israel Defence Forces (IDF) said they had ‘eliminated’ two senior Iranian intelligence officials of the ‘Khatam al-Anbiya’ Emergency Command.
They added that it had struck the primary research center of the Iranian Space Agency and an aerial defence system production factory.
Why did people think Netanyahu might be dead?
A video of Netanyahu giving an update on Israel’s war against Tehran, appearing to show his right hand with six fingers, gave rise to speculation that the clip had been faked as a cover because the Israeli PM had died.
After it emerged that Netanyahu was alive and well, several users quickly dismissed the clip as a poorly made AI deepfake.
Experts have warned that AI often experiences difficulty recreating certain human features, with badly simulated fingers a key telltale sign the video may be faked.
But there was a different explanation for the misleading Netanyahu video.
Analysts explained the widely shared screenshot had been frozen in a way that appeared to show an additional finger at what was actually the edge of Netanyahu’s hand.
A closer look at the leader’s raised hand shows he had just four fingers and a thumb – in line with the vast majority of people.
The clip is just the latest example of how fast misinformation spreads online during times of conflict and uncertainty.
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