In an interview with Yair Nitsani on the IDF radio, Guy Yariv shows how Netanyahu manages to present one problem and a solution unrelated to it, without anyone noticing. Click to hear the interview. The "Bait & Switch" exercise (in Hebrew (temptation and exchange)) is an exercise in which you present something very...
Interview following the speech in Congress
Netanyahu's speech to Congress tomorrow is the most important speech of his career - in part because if he fails in it it will be the end of his career. This speech is a gamble on the whole pot, so Netanyahu must be at his best. And he probably knows it.`…
From an article in 'Haaretz' on November 10, 2013 in basketball A 'head trick' is a drill in which a player turns his head in one direction to fool his guard and then dribbles to the other side. Yesterday, Netanyahu demonstrated how to perform a perfect rhetorical 'head trick'. For everyone who didn't follow, Netanyahu gave...
I had two interviews this week on YNET News, and I want to start with the second one (which was not planned in advance), an interview that I wish all my students - including anyone who suffers from fear of crowds - could see. This is the speech that shows that every speaker falters sometimes - a fact...
(Maariv 1.10.2014) The rhetorician in me enjoys watching Netanyahu speak every time. It is simply a pleasure to see a politician who takes seriously all the elements of a good speech: reasoned arguments supported by examples, a structure that leads you from conclusion to conclusion, a speech cut that emphasizes the important things and flows throughout the rest...
Like little children who insulted their aunt and now have to ask for forgiveness even though they really don't feel sorrow, our politicians came forward this month one by one to apologize for the nonsense they said: Economy Minister Naftali Bennett, Defense Minister Yaalon, these Knesset members and others and more. Apologize in front of an audience...
An analysis of Israeli propaganda in the last war shows how excellent Netanyahu's rhetoric is, and yet how much the demands from it are much higher than what it is able to provide. Because in order to understand why the war felt like a failure to us, but from an explanatory point of view it was a success, you have to understand how difficult it is...
In the years to come, the great storm of December 2013 will surely be remembered because of the snow, the 'siege' on Jerusalem and Netanyahu's "knock on every door twice" speech. His performance was so out of place it was embarrassing, and when it happens to a TV magician like Bibi, there's...
From an interview on Channel 10: Naama Kasri: "Many of us know the situation: entering a new place surrounded by people you do not know guns, and if you also have to give a speech then at all, there are those who need to be hospitalized!… Does this happen to everyone?" Guy Yariv: “No. It happens a little more…
Many years ago, I lived in the USA when my father served as a messenger in the Rochester New York congregation. As such, I was exposed to many representatives who came from Israel to do 'hasbarah', and unfortunately I must say that even then I was not impressed. Somehow almost every time when my dad allowed me to join the lecture of…