Benjamin Netanyahu has friends that are powerful.

Netanyahu was recruited by the Boston Consulting Group after receiving his MIT degree. He spent two years there, working with Mitt Romney. At the Boston Consulting Group, where both had been hired as business advisors, on the 16th floor in 1976, the lives of Mitt Romney and Benjamin Netanyahu briefly but irrevocably intertwined. They assessed one other at the firm's weekly brainstorming meetings, taking in the same thoroughly analytical worldview at the most formative stage of their careers. They became close and are still highly complimentary of one another today. Romney has remarked of Netanyahu, "We share shared experiences and have a worldview which is similar."

Netanyahu met Henry Jackson, George H.W. Bush, and Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson—the man he regarded as the most influential person of our time—while working at the anti-terrorist institute he created.

In the 1980s, while residing in New York City, Netanyahu got to know Fred Trump, a well-known real estate mogul and the father of Donald Trump, the future president. Despite Netanyahu and his friend's kid not having the same degree of regard for one another, the two remained friends for many years.