WATCH: The Most In-Your-Face Political Ad Ever For the Israeli Left Just Dropped. Here's What It Means.
Entrepreneur-turned-Knesset member Erel Margalit appears to have unofficially launched a bid for the leadership of the center-left Labor party. His announcement came in the form of an unusually aggressive attack ad aimed at both the Israeli Right, for destroying the country, and the Left, for failing to stop this from happening.
In the video, titled “Give Us Our Country Back,” Margalit dabbles in Arabic and Yiddish slang, challenges the manliness of his opponents on the Right, and ruthlessly criticizes the Left for failing to counter what he depicts as a risible and miserable foe. Israeli Channel 2’s political correspondent Amit Segal called the YouTube video the most “scathing” he could recall from an Israeli politician. Walla’s Amir Tibon characterized its Trumpian strategy as “Make Labor Great Again!”