He walked among us with a heavy, ponderous step for a generation, and now we understand how much he was a portrait of that generation, its essence and its core.

The Israeli right was marginalized this week.

He proved that it can be done without causing civil strife and he paved the way for his heir to go on with it.

It could really be that the prime minister doesn't know how much he weighs ... because fat people don't like to know how much they weigh.

The weapon of choice is a knife, not a gun. Israelis tend to regard arms as something restricted to waging war and not something that is handy in disputes or any quarrels on the streets.

This will be his last main effort to extract Israel from the mud he pushed us in many years back.