Israel: The Royal Tour
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu leads journalist Peter Greenberg on a personal tour of Israel, the kind of access no other head of state has granted a television crew before. Netanyahu picks the stops himself: the Old City streets of Jerusalem, the market stalls of Tel Aviv, and the shoreline of the Dead Sea, narrating each one as both politician and tour guide. Greenberg asks the travelogue questions, about food, history, and daily life, and Netanyahu answers them while also making his own case for the country, folding in commentary on its technology sector, its archaeology, and its place in the region. The camera follows wherever he leads, which means the itinerary reflects his priorities rather than a neutral survey of the country. That framing is the point of interest here: an hour of Israel shown entirely through the eyes and talking points of the man running it, with the ordinary sights of the trip, cobblestones, markets, mineral-crusted water, doing double duty as backdrop for a leader's pitch for his nation.