Believing that the fate of Israel in the Holy Land now rests with Netanyahu as its leader, Israeli courts are being challenged.

Nay, the system of rule of law is in the limelight.  For Netanyahu and family are saying he is so important that any infraction of law he has committed in the conduct of his office ought to be laid aside.  He is the virtual savior of the Jewish movement among heathens!

Sound familiar?  The cry of another facing the halls of justice were raised by Donald Trump and his coterie of devotees in the United States when he was brought before some court.  And he too appealed to what he was doing on behalf of the country, viz., its voting citizenry.

I detect a similarity in both their cries to override the execution of the law, and to question the ultimacy of the justice's authority.  (See the Economist, December 14th issue, p. 41)

My opinion.

P.S. There's the error in autocracy--it believes that the fate of the country is determined by what the autocrat is able to accomplish. It's stunts the growth of the country in whatever it is its destiny in the future; has no inkling of what the future holds for its people.