Video: Netanyahu Campaign Ad, “The Bibi-Sitter,” Goes Viral

by Shifra on February 2, 2015

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Very cute campaign ad for Netanyahu and his Likud (pronounced Lee-KOOD) Party.

Via Israel National News: Netanyahu Offers ‘Bibi-Sitter’ Services

….The video features a young couple that is about to leave for a night out when the baby-sitter knocks at the door. “You asked for a babysitter? You got a Bibi-sitter,” says Netanyahu.

“Look, it’s either me or Tzipi [Livni] and Buji [Herzog],” he explains to the bewildered couple. The couple immediately protests that their children would need to babysit Herzog, and not the other way around. In addition, “by the time we return we’d have no house… he’d even hand over the carpets” – a play on the Hebrew words “shtichim” (carpets) and “shtachim” (territories).

As for “Tzipi” – the woman says she doubts that she would stay in the same place for two hours, and Netanyahu agrees she would probably have gone over to the neighbors’ by the time they returned. This, of course, is a swipe at Livni’s frequent migration from one political party to another….

When the couple returns and greets him with the word “Shalom” – hello – but also the word for “peace”, Netanyahu responds “but not at any price.”

Major h/t to Maynard for finding the ad *with* English subtitles

Video via New English Review

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  1. Chuck says:
    February 2, 2015 at 15:01

    This is very good! I like it.

  2. ancientwrrior says:
    February 2, 2015 at 16:00

    Very good, I like it. Unlike the present W.H. occupant who would have stolen everything in the house. 🙂

  3. AlThumbs says:
    February 2, 2015 at 21:09

    Smart ad. Good natured fun..

  4. Kitten says:
    February 2, 2015 at 21:40

    Nicely done. Seems OBummer’s attempts at hurting Bibi’s re-election bid is backfiring. Let’s pray Bibi wins with a comfortable margin to continue his work of defending the Jewish State from her enemies all around her, and abroad.

  5. Maynard says:
    February 5, 2015 at 16:21

    Peggy Noonan has posted some interesting comments on her blog.

    Whatever your views on Benjamin Netanyahu, the Likud Party, and the upcoming Israeli elections, put them aside for a moment and appreciate this as sheer political art. It is one of the best political ads I have ever seen—funny, warm, surprising and clever. It seems aimed at what I’d think is one of Netanyahu’s prime problems as a political figure, which is his heavy grimness, his air of aggression and constant warning. Here he is playful, jolly, a father figure. In a quick-moving 1:15, the spot takes acutely aimed yet gentle slaps at his opponents; it suggests everyone knows and so it doesn’t have to be explained that Isaac Herzog is weak and confused and Tzipi Livni unreliable and frenetic. The spot has a sort of French feel, with the comic music and the antic husband. Whoever conceived, wrote and directed it knew something most people, at least over here, do not, or at least I didn’t: Netanyahu is a really good actor.

    An interesting artistic question, on first viewing, was why they chose not to include children in an ad about babysitting. The answer turns out to be Israeli election law, which does not allow the use of children under 15 in political ads. Netanyahu’s campaign was recently stopped from airing a commercial in which his opponents were portrayed as rowdy schoolchildren. In the babysitter ad, Netanyahu is watching a clip of himself on a screen, and chuckling. The clip apparently comes from the banned ad.

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