Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has spent a career defying political gravity.

Now he's facing his biggest challenge yet.

You can hear it in this press conference in October just a few weeks after the Hamas attacks.

We'll go now to ABC America, Matt River.

Thank you, sir.

It seems that the level of support that you have amongst the Israeli public has dropped considerably.

So the question is, how can you continue to lead this country effectively during a very difficult

time and have you at all considered stepping down? The only thing that I intend to have resign is

Hamas. We're going to resign them to the dustbin of history.

Netagnahu had sold himself as a leader who would keep Israelis safe. Instead, one of the world's strongest

militaries failed to protect its citizens from a long-planned Mad Max-style invasion, with

attackers from Gaza coming in on motorcycles, pickup trucks, and hang gliders.

Israeli authorities say 1,200 people were killed October 7th and more than 200 taken hostage.

This failure will be investigated thoroughly.

Everyone will need to provide answers, myself included,

Netanyahu promised in an October address to the nation, but all of this will happen only

after the war, he said.

For a while, it seemed Netanyahu could successfully delay that reckoning, but public outrage has gotten louder

in recent days, with protesters in the streets and relatives of Israeli hostages bursting

into Israel's parliament. You could even hear anger toward Netanyahu at a funeral

Tuesday for an Israeli soldier.

He is the enemy. He is the enemy within us. We have the enemy outside of us and he is the enemy

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