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    Israel's Netanyahu, consummate political survivor, faces voter test and legal peril

    by Noga Tarnopolsky and Laura King, Los Angeles Times Apr 05, 2019 5 minutes

    JERUSALEM –– In Israeli politics, Benjamin Netanyahu has long been known as the ultimate survivor. But now, a leader who has so often seemed invincible faces grave legal and political peril.

    With parliamentary elections scheduled Tuesday, the smooth-talking, American-educated prime minister faces a vote that is widely seen as a referendum on him.

    If the election keeps him in power, Netanyahu, 69, will hit a political milestone this year –– becoming Israel's longest-serving prime minister, a distinction now held by David Ben Gurion, a founding father of Israel. But with a criminal indictment on corruption charges hanging over his head, that historic marker might carry a very large asterisk.

    A polarizing, paradoxical figure, Netanyahu is the sort of politician who's sometimes down but never out -

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