Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu became the country’s longest-serving prime minister Saturday, as the clock ticked midnight on his 4,876th (non-consecutive) day in office.
, and has continued to preside over a caretaker government since then.
As a result, Netanyahu’s opponents have tirelessly diminished the longevity record — he has served two stints as prime minister, from 1996-99 and 2009-present -- as no more than a technical feat for a caretaker head of government facing imminent trial. With no imports, no exports, and empty supermarket shelves, he asked, how could the young nation be fed?
In Netanyahu’s telling, the lifesaving solution was found through Israeli ingenuity, or “rice made of wheat,” the popular export now known as Israeli couscous, an “Israeli startup,” Netanyahu says in the fluent English that has burnished his reputation as an international statesman, alluding both to the economic tech boom over which he has presided and the worldwide popularity of Israeli restaurants.
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