King Bibi for a day: golden Netanyahu statue is toppled

Tel Aviv residents queue for selfies with work condemned as ‘expression of hatred’, then accept invitation to knock it downThe nickname King Bibi for Israel’s prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu has long been in circulation. It refers to his reputed imperial tendencies, his political gifts and his taste for fine living.Now the conceit has been given a new currency via the sudden – if brief – appearance of a large golden statue of Netanyahu in Tel Aviv’s most fam