“Breaking: Latest video released by the israeli government shows that it was ai generated because netanyahu has 6 fingers,” read another March 13 X post<\/a>. “Is Netanyahu dead?”<\/p>\n In the image, Netanyahu is pointing with both hands, and social media users said his right hand appears to have six fingers.\u00a0<\/p>\n But upon closer look at the video<\/a>, Netanyahu\u2019s hands looked normal. A trick of light likely made part of his palm appear to be an extra finger.<\/p>\n (Screenshots from the Israeli Government Press Office YouTube video)<\/p>\n The full press briefing can be found here<\/a>. There are no other indications that it was altered or generated with artificial intelligence. Netanyahu interacted with reporters over video conference. He gestured with his hands a lot and no irregularities appeared.<\/p>\n Several<\/a> news<\/a> outlets<\/a> reported<\/a> on Netanyahu\u2019s press briefing.<\/p>\n A video of Netanyahu\u2019s press conference doesn\u2019t prove he is dead. We rate this claim Pants on Fire!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On March 12, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gave his first press conference since the U.S. and Israel…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":340008,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,166558,85,166556,166561,46,166559,166560,43,166557],"class_list":["post-340007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-benjamin-netanyahu","tag-benjamin-netanyahu-missing","tag-il","tag-is-netanyahu-dead","tag-is-netanyahu-okay","tag-israel","tag-netanyahu-last-seen","tag-netanyahu-speech-today-live","tag-news","tag-when-was-the-last-time-netanyahu-was-seen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=340007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340007\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/340008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=340007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=340007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=340007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Closeup_of_Netanyahus_hands_03-12-2026_press_conference.png\"\/)
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