On my 30th birthday, about six years ago, Benjamin Netanyahu and Yair Lapid sat next to each other in my living room and argued. The rest of my friends were listening attentively.
It was a fascinating ideological discussion, and after it ended Lapid jokingly asked me who I thought my friends would vote for – him or Netanyahu.

Back then it was a funny question: Netanyahu was a politician facing what seemed like a lost cause;