1. There‘s the rise from his humble working–class roots in Wimbledon, his early days at EMI, handling the Beatles before they got famous, and, later, Sinatra, and then there‘s his transformation into the country‘s scandalmonger–in–chief.

2. Who gave Netanyahu the nickname "male model," and said mockingly that he didn‘t know whether to help "your right hand or your left?" Who, a decade earlier, waved his hands and grabbed the microphone from then–prime minister Yitzhak Shamir, shouting, "Who is in favor of eradicating terror?" This is the same scandalmonger who told then–deputy prime minister Yigal Yadin of the Dash Party, when he still had lively hormones, "I‘ll strip you naked on the cabinet table." And to his competitor for leadership of the Likud party at the time of the "hot cassette" affair, did he not say÷ "There are people who quite literally get caught with their pants down." Advertisement In a reversal of roles, this week looked like a repeat broadcast of the threat of then–prime minister Shimon Peres to dismiss Sharon, the industry and trade minister, because of his unbridled attack against him.