Netanyahu Shares AI Image of Atomic Bomb Over Tel Aviv Days Before Vote

Benjamin Netanyahu dropped a startling image on his Instagram account Sunday: an AI-generated atomic bomb plunging toward Tel Aviv. The post landed two days before Israelis cast ballots on Tuesday, October 27, and it came with a blunt message — Iran's nuclear program makes everything else in Israeli politics irrelevant.

The prime minister paired the picture with words from Yuval Bloomberg, the Israeli writer and commentator behind The Oslo Trap, a book that takes a hard look at the 1993 Oslo Accords. According to the post, Bloomberg wrote that Israel faces a genuine existential threat and that if Iran goes nuclear, nothing else will matter — everything else, he argued, is trivial next to the danger from Iran and the Shiite axis.

Netanyahu's caption piled on. It listed Qatar, the ultra-Orthodox, Urich, military conscription and warnings as one giant smokescreen hiding the issue that towers above the rest, then asked who would care about such controversies if two atomic bombs fell on central Israel. The post also repeated his campaign-season argument that Israel has just two more years under U.S. President Donald Trump's administration to deal with Tehran.

Yair Golan, the Democrats party chairman and a former IDF deputy chief of staff, didn't let it slide. He said the prime minister of Israel had posted an image of an atomic bomb falling on Tel Aviv and asked, half-seriously, that Netanyahu be kept away from social media. The man and those around him have lost it, Golan said, adding that the pressure is mounting, per ynetnews.com.

Golan tied his attack straight to the ballot box, saying Tuesday would bring a replacement for those spreading panic and a return of security and sanity to Israel. Netanyahu has made Iran the spine of his campaign, insisting that confronting Tehran's nuclear ambitions must stay Israel's top national priority. Voters settle the argument in two days.