Everyone knows that the coming Israel election, to be held March 17, is a referendum on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

“It becomes clear that the election on 17 March is increasingly seen as a referendum on Netanyahu’s time in office,” wrote London’s Guardian. The Economist quoted Israel’s Channel 2 saying, “At the end of the day, these elections are all about a referendum on Bibi.” The Associated Press proclaimed, “The coming Israeli election amounts to a referendum on Benjamin Netanyahu.” And the Washington Post told readers that “political analysts and journalists were calling this election the ‘Bibi referendum.’”