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Nava Rozolyo, a 27-year-old Israeli who came to support the relatives of Israeli hostages, as they protest in front of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's house this week. Discontent over the war and the Israeli government's failure to secure the release of the hostages is growing. Turgut Alp Boyraz/Anadolu via Getty Images hide caption
Nava Rozolyo, a 27-year-old Israeli who came to support the relatives of Israeli hostages, as they protest in front of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's house this week. Discontent over the war and the Israeli government's failure to secure the release of the hostages is growing.
Turgut Alp Boyraz/Anadolu via Getty ImagesIsraeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has spent a career defying political gravity. Now he's facing his biggest challenge yet.
For decades, Netanyahu has sold himself as a leader who would keep Israelis safe.
Instead, one of the world's strongest militaries failed to protect its citizens from a long-planned, Mad Max style invasion - with attackers from Gaza coming in on motorcycles, pickup trucks and hang gliders. Israeli authorities say 1,200 people were killed October 7th and more than 200 taken hostage.
Netanyahu promised an investigation after the war with Hamas, but public outrage has grown louder in recent days.
Now as public outrage grows in Israel, Netanyahu's future seems all but certain. And that future is inseparable from the future of Israel's war with Hamas, or an eventual peace in Gaza.
This episode was produced by Connor Donevan. It was edited by Courtney Dorning and Gerry Holmes. Becky Sullivan contributed reporting. Our executive producer is Sami Yenigun.
