A visit to Israel by U.S. President Donald Trump was supposed to be the winning card for the Likud party in the fall election. In Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s fantasies, the beloved American leader would give him the kind of “endorsement” that only Trump can – with all the superlatives about Netanyahu being a “wartime prime minister, without whom Israel would have been destroyed, and that there’s no one around who could match his stature. Trump would also declare President Isaac Herzog wretched and evil.
