Yair Netanyahu's book calls his father's opponents 'saboteurs'

Yair Netanyahu, the son of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, has written a book that describes his father's opponents inside Israel as saboteurs, and the major American publishing house Simon & Schuster will handle its distribution, The Jerusalem Post reported. The title is Two-Front War, and its subtitle casts the country's struggle as one waged against enemies abroad and saboteurs at home.

According to a Jewish Telegraphic Agency (JTA) report carried by The Times of Israel, the book argues that enemies of the prime minister, both abroad and at home, acted in coordination to try to bring him down. The book is scheduled to come out in March 2027 under the imprint of RatPac Press, with Simon & Schuster as distributor. The report described the author as a controversial political activist, aged 35.

What the publisher's description says

The promotional text on Simon & Schuster's website, as quoted by JTA, presents the author as "a proud Jew and a devoted Zionist" who came to believe that the country's institutions had conspired against his father. The description lists those institutions: prosecutors, judges, the intelligence bureaucracy, the military command, media networks and non-governmental organisations (NGOs) that it says are funded from abroad.

In the blurb's telling, once these bodies set out to remove the elder Netanyahu from office, his son found himself caught up in what it calls "a Kafkaesque system that few citizens ever see". The word refers to the novelist Franz Kafka, whose fiction depicts individuals trapped in opaque and hostile bureaucracies.

These are the claims of the book and its marketing copy. The reports do not present evidence for them, and the institutions named are described in general terms rather than by specific officials or organisations.

Who is publishing it

Two companies are involved. RatPac Press is named as the publisher releasing the title, while Simon & Schuster, one of the largest book publishers in the United States, is named as the distributor. In the book trade, a distributor typically handles getting a smaller publisher's titles into bookshops and online retailers, which can give a book far wider reach than its imprint alone might. The reports do not describe the commercial arrangement between the two companies in any further detail.

Yair Netanyahu's public profile

Yair Netanyahu is not a government official and holds no elected office, but he has long been a visible and polarising figure in Israeli public life, largely through his commentary on politics and the media. Both reports illustrated their stories with a photograph of him arriving at a court hearing in Jerusalem on July 15, 2026. That hearing concerned his request for a restraining order against Uri Misgav, a journalist at Haaretz, a left-leaning Israeli daily newspaper that has been sharply critical of the prime minister.

The two outlets identify the venue differently. The Jerusalem Post's photo caption names the Jerusalem Magistrate's Court, while The Times of Israel's caption names the Jerusalem District Court. In Israel's court system, magistrate's courts are the lower first-instance courts and district courts sit above them, so the two descriptions refer to different bodies. Neither report says how that request was decided.

Why the language matters

The book's framing echoes a theme that has run through Israeli politics in recent years: the argument from the prime minister's supporters that unelected parts of the state, including the legal system, security establishment and press, have acted against an elected leader. Opponents of that view regard those same institutions as independent checks on government power. A book from a member of the prime minister's family, distributed by a major international house and aimed in part at readers abroad, carries that argument to an audience well beyond Israel.

The reports do not quote the prime minister on his son's book. The Times of Israel text supplied to us breaks off partway through a sentence that begins with a reference to the prime minister, so any comment from him or his office that may follow is not part of the material available.

What the reports do not say

• Whether Benjamin Netanyahu or the Prime Minister's Office has responded to the book.
• Whether Simon & Schuster or RatPac Press has commented beyond the online description.
• Whether any of the institutions described in the blurb, such as the prosecution, the courts or the military, has responded.
• What evidence the book offers for its claim of coordination between foreign and domestic opponents.
• The outcome of Yair Netanyahu's request for a restraining order against Uri Misgav, and which court heard it.