The leader of Otzma Yehudit is aiming to become Defence Minister and to win over even Tel Aviv, which views him with suspicion. But amidst keyring guns, slogans against the ‘deep state’ and kingmaker ambitions, the public remains lukewarm: the city is not allowing itself to be charmed by the Texan from the Israeli right.

Netanyahu’s extremist minister has responded to London’s recent initiative against the settlers by attacking the British “occupation” and, by extension, an Israeli company that extracts oil