Asked about his age, Netanyahu declines to put an end date on his political career

Asked about his age in an interview at The New York Times’s DealBook Summit, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, 76, declines to say when he’ll retire.

“I don’t measure it by time,” he says. “I measure it by missions, by tasks.”

The prime minister, Israel’s longest-serving leader, has faced a variety of health problems in recent years.

He claims, contrary to many polls that show his coalition struggling to retain a majority in next year’s election, that he has broad support in Israel.

“I’m supported by a great majority of the people in the country,” he says. “You’d never know that by the foreign reporting, but that’s it. That’s why I keep winning these elections.”

He says that his two priorities moving forward are technological innovation, including AI, and what he calls a “broader peace.”

“I think there’s another revolution coming,” he says regarding technology. “I intend to steer it, along with the achievement of a broader peace. These are two enormous tasks that I’d like to take on. And you know, when history is within reach, you don’t step aside. You step forward, and that’s what I’m doing.”