The news is reporting that an Arab terror cell had planned on assassinating Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat.

Obviously it did not work out so well for them and they've been arrested and indicted.

However, it does work out great for Nir Barkat. Why he was a target of the assassination plan, rather than senior ministers such as Gilad Erdan, Aryeh Deri, Yisrael Katz, Naftali Bennett and others, or the president Reuven Rivlin, I do not know. But his name tied together with that of the PM as the targets puts him in good company as has people thinking of him as being a prime leader of Israel, on par with the prime minister. That can only help him with his political career moving forward.

I guess nobody wants to be a target, but as long as the plot is foiled, he might as well reap the benefits!