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Article: Bibi: The New Israeli
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- Jerusalem Post
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- June 5, 1996
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Sever Plocker
Jerusalem Post
06-05-1996
Last week's election results should lead to a dramatic Americanization of our political life, highlighted by a presidential-style election for the premiership on the one hand, and the rise of sectarian parliamentary pressure groups on the other.
Indeed, this Americanization coincides with Binyamin Netanyahu's biography, but it is also part of the prime minister-elect's being the epitome of the New Israeli.
The essence of the New Israeli character is in the MBA schools.
Born in the State of Israel to intellectual parents, having served in a crack IDF unit and studied architecture at Harvard and MIT, Netanyahu might well have been today the CEO of a ...