![A Day In The Life Of Hamas Leader Khalid Mishal Khaled Mashaal in Doha, Qatar in 2013.](https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/khaled-mashaal.jpg?quality=85&w=2400)
Khaled Mashaal lay dying in a hospital bed as poison flowed through his bloodstream, slowly shutting down his respiratory system. With a machine pumping air into his lungs, he had, at best, a few days to live. An antidote could save the Hamas leader’s life. But the only person who could provide it was the very man who had tried to kill him: Israel’s Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu… Read the full story
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