Netanyahu Warns Violence Similar to Trump Assassination Attempt Could Occur in Israel

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu suggested Monday that he, his family, or other top Israeli officials could become the victim of a Trump-inspired assassination attempt in the midst of the months-long war with Hamas. “There is an incitement to violence and murder of elected officials here. It can happen because there is incitement to violence and murder of elected officials, of ministers, of the prime minister, of his family,” Mr. Netanyahu told an Israeli broadcaster Channel 14 on Monday when he was asked about the Trump assassination attempt on Saturday, according to a translation from Hebrew into English. He added that the calls to violence are “almost on an hourly basis” and “on such a scale that it’s impossible to believe … chants of ‘traitor,’ ‘murderer,’ ‘you should be finished like Ceausescu,’ ‘like Mussolini,’ etc.” are being stated, referring to the Romanian communist dictator Nicolae Ceaușescu, who, along with his wife, were publicly executed during the collapse of his regime in 1989....