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Benjamin Netanyahu

Prime Minister of Israel, 1996 to 1999 and 2009 to present

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Subject of an ICC arrest warrant for war crimes and crimes against humanity

Israel's longest-serving prime minister has pushed market-oriented economic reforms and a hard line on security. He faces corruption trials, and the International Criminal Court issued an arrest warrant for him in 2024.

Benjamin Netanyahu sits in the right-authoritarian part of the Caucus economy and liberty compass: leaning free market and leaning authoritarian. The clearest positions are strongly strength-first on war and peace, strongly interventionist on interventionism and strongly nationalist on nation.

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Where Benjamin Netanyahu sits on ten dimensions

Each scale runs from one pole to the other, and the dot shows the overall tendency of this person's record and public life. These are simplified estimates and open to debate.

💰EconomyLeaning free market
State-ledFree market
⚖️Liberty and authorityLeaning authoritarian
LibertarianAuthoritarian
🎭CultureStrongly traditional
ProgressiveTraditional
🌍NationStrongly nationalist
GlobalistNationalist
🌱EnvironmentSlightly growth-first
Growth-firstNature-first
🤖TechnologyStrongly tech-optimist
Tech-cautiousTech-optimist
🕊️War and peaceStrongly strength-first
Peace-firstStrength-first
🏛️InstitutionsLeaning anti-establishment
Anti-establishmentInstitutional
🙏ReligionLeaning religious
SecularReligious
🛡️InterventionismStrongly interventionist
Non-interventionistInterventionist

People most like Benjamin Netanyahu

Naftali Bennett Prime Minister of Israel, 2021 to 202297%George W. Bush US President, 2001 to 200997%Ariel Sharon Prime Minister of Israel, 2001 to 200697%Margaret Thatcher UK Prime Minister, 1979 to 199097%Ted Cruz US Senator from Texas, 2013 to present96%Ronald Reagan US President, 1981 to 198996%Douglas Murray British author and commentator96%Recep Tayyip Erdoğan President of Turkey, 2014 to present (Prime Minister 2003 to 2014)96%

People furthest from Benjamin Netanyahu

Emma Goldman Russian-born anarchist and writer, 1869 to 19401%John Lennon British musician and peace activist, 1940 to 19801%Leo Tolstoy Russian novelist and moral thinker, 1828 to 19102%Petra Kelly German Green co-founder, 1947 to 19922%

Political views closest to Benjamin Netanyahu

Thatcherism and ReaganismFree-market economics, tax cuts, deregulation and a firm stance toward the Soviet Union.96%BonapartismAuthoritarian rule by a popular leader who claims to embody the nation, with plebiscites…96%MilitarismTreats military strength and martial values as central to national life.95%NeoconservatismPairs free markets and traditional values with an assertive, democracy-promoting foreign…93%

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Percentages show how close two profiles are across all ten dimensions. Including a person here is for study and comparison, not approval. Portrait: Avi Ohayon, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons; see all photo credits.