Netanyahu's Speech to Congress Makes it to Israeli Campaign Ads
The speech didn't boost him in the polls, but maybe the edited version will.
Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu(C) arrives to address to Congress on March 3, 2015 at the US Capitol in Washington, DC.
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March 3, the day that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gave his third speech to the U.S. Congress, had another significance back home. It was, as Daniel Gordis pointed out, the beginning of campaign ads for Israeli's March 17 election. (Israel, like most democracies that lack a First Amendment and a court that has interpreted it to unleash political money, limits election spots to a window right before the vote.) Up to then, Netanyahu's Likud Party had been bidding for virality with online videos that–among other things–warned against replacing him with opposition co-leader Tzipi Livni.