A former Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, in his new autobiography, lifts the lid on aspects of his life and various interactions with world leaders — including President Obama, who, he claims, had toward the State of Israel “not just bad policy, but malice.”

The book, titled “Bibi: My Story,” will be released in English on Tuesday. It makes  for some riveting, if at times unsettling, reading, shedding light as it does on arguably the most fraught personal relationship in modern American-Israeli history.