While Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is often portrayed as a political improviser who seizes opportunities and dodges land mines as they occur to preserve his hold on power, he is in fact guided by a clear and consistent mission, Haaretz editor-in-chief Aluf Benn tells the Haaretz Podcast.

The Israeli PM says he seeks full control of Gaza, removing Hamas and then transferring the governance to another party.

The crisis between Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Israel Defense Forces Chief of Staff Eyal Zamir over the next phase of the war in the Gaza Strip is even worse than the…