From the New York Times, I'm Michael Barbaro.

This is The Daily.

Today, Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu

faces indictments over an alleged scheme

involving brazen acts of bribery and fraud.

So why are so many Israelis ready to re-elect him?

It's Wednesday, March 27th.

I think the only way people would vote for someone under indictment

is if they can't live without him, if they think he's indispensable.

David Helfinger is the Jerusalem bureau chief for the times.

And if you really want to understand how Benjamin Netanyahu

developed this idea that he's the indispensable Israeli leader,

you've got to go all the way back to the early 1990s

when he first arrived on the scene.

Ladies and gentlemen, Mr. Arafat, chairman of the Executive Council

of the Palestine Liberation Organization,

his excellency Yitzah Rabin, Prime Minister of Israel,

the President of the United States.

When the peace process between Israel and the Palestinians

is getting going for the first time really ever.

Prime Minister Rabin, Chairman Arafat, Foreign Minister of Paris,

there's this breakthrough moment of the Oslo Accords.

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