Much has been written and will be written about this election campaign. I have underestimated and will underestimate the effectiveness of political rallies and demonstrations. But to be there, in Malki-Israel Square, when Danielle Weiss invites "Israeli Prime Minister Mr. Benjamin Netanyahu" - you know that Likud is going to win this time too.
It's not just the electric tension that built up in the crowd during the long wait in the square; it's not just that.
This is not the fire that lights up in the eyes when Netanyahu rises and waves; that too is only part of it.
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It's the electric explosion you hear as soon as he starts speaking, you imagine the glass around you shattering, you see in your mind's eye the transparent studio of Channel 10 crumbling to pieces, but all that happened was that one man, Benjamin Netanyahu, said: "My brothers and sisters, my friends, the citizens of Israel." That's it.
There was no need for the talk that followed, there was no point in talking about "our capital united forever and ever," and even the mention of the need for an expanded right-wing party was unnecessary. Everyone in the square would have voted for Likud at that moment. For Likud led by Netanyahu.
So it's true that Bennett won back some of the audience afterwards with a kindergarten teacher-style speech (Want to sing? I can't hear!), and it's true that the song "Jerusalem of Gold" gives chills, especially when he can't play it; but the audience still had "Bibi, King of Israel," and "Bibi, Bibi, Bibi.".
By the way, why didn't they tell him that the next verse of the song reads: "We returned to... and to the square.".
Eli Yishai also played it in a terrible speech. No one understood where he was starting from and where it was going, but the very fact that a Sephardi kissing amulets gave a speech in Malki-Israel Square did its job.
So it's true that the 'News' websites competed for the title of "Best Rally Reducer," and tens of thousands of people who were in the square today returned home and lit up the neighborhoods.
""Bibi, King of Israel.".
