Already under pressure from the international community over an ever-ailing peace process, the Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, found himself facing a fresh challenge on the domestic front: a lawsuit by a former caretaker of his official residence which contains acutely embarrassing allegations about his wife, Sara.
The picture of Mrs Netanyahu that emerges from the 1.1 million shekel (£190,000) case is one of a tyrannical, capricious waster of taxpayers’ money – while the Premier comes across as a husband who indulges her excesses.
“Sara Netanyahu: Israel’s Marie Antoinette’’ proclaimed a headline in the daily newspaper Haaretz, which opposes the Netanyahu government. The Prime Minister’s office dismissed the suit as baseless and aimed at sullying the reputation of the Netanyahus.
“The Prime Minister’s wife woke me at 3am after a gruelling day of work and with loud shouting reprimanded me for buying milk in bags and not cartons,’’ the suit quotes the ex-superintendent, Meni Naftali, who worked for the family for 20 months, as saying. “When I protested about the hour and the tone, the Prime Minister intervened and demanded I do all Mrs Netanyahu requested so that she would ‘calm down’.” Mr Naftali, who said the Prime Minister’s residence reneged on promises to give him a proper staff position, asserted that during his time there 29 other workers finished their service “on a bad note”.
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It is not the first time the personal behaviour of the Netanyahus has come under scrutiny. Last May, it was revealed that the PM ordered a double bed to be installed on the aircraft carrying him and his wife to Baroness Thatcher’s funeral in London, at a cost of £83,000. Months earlier, it was revealed that the Netanyahus had spent £1,750 on ice cream in 2012. Full story...
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The picture of Mrs Netanyahu that emerges from the 1.1 million shekel (£190,000) case is one of a tyrannical, capricious waster of taxpayers’ money – while the Premier comes across as a husband who indulges her excesses.
“Sara Netanyahu: Israel’s Marie Antoinette’’ proclaimed a headline in the daily newspaper Haaretz, which opposes the Netanyahu government. The Prime Minister’s office dismissed the suit as baseless and aimed at sullying the reputation of the Netanyahus.
“The Prime Minister’s wife woke me at 3am after a gruelling day of work and with loud shouting reprimanded me for buying milk in bags and not cartons,’’ the suit quotes the ex-superintendent, Meni Naftali, who worked for the family for 20 months, as saying. “When I protested about the hour and the tone, the Prime Minister intervened and demanded I do all Mrs Netanyahu requested so that she would ‘calm down’.” Mr Naftali, who said the Prime Minister’s residence reneged on promises to give him a proper staff position, asserted that during his time there 29 other workers finished their service “on a bad note”.
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It is not the first time the personal behaviour of the Netanyahus has come under scrutiny. Last May, it was revealed that the PM ordered a double bed to be installed on the aircraft carrying him and his wife to Baroness Thatcher’s funeral in London, at a cost of £83,000. Months earlier, it was revealed that the Netanyahus had spent £1,750 on ice cream in 2012. Full story...
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