Jerusalem – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu lashed out at the media on Monday after reports emerged Sunday over his wife Sara’s allegedly untoward behavior toward staff at the couple’s official residence in Jerusalem.
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Netanyahu took to his Facebook page, accusing the media of taking its campaign against him to a new, personal level.
“The media attack against my wife Sara is yet another low point for some leading memebrs of the Israeli media that will use any means to hurt me and my political path,” Netanyau charged.
“The ‘Anyone but Bibi’ campaign has become ‘Anyone but Sara’ – anything in order to defame, denounce, attack, to do all in their power to unseat the Likud under my leadership and pave the way for the Left,” he said.
“Those who wish to attack my policies in a proper manner are welcome. Leave my family alone,” Netanyahu added.
New evidence in the lawsuit against Sara Netanyahu filed by Manny Naftali, the former overseer of Netanyahu’s residence, surfaced Sunday.
The new evidence, in the form of two testimonies of former employees that echo Naftali’s accusations, makes harsh claims against the prime minister’s wife’s behavior.
Emmanuel Sela, also a former overseer of the residence, gave one of the statements at Jerusalem Labor Court, saying that he was required to work long hours for which he was not remunerated.
“Sara’s treatment of the household workers was unbearable,” he said. Sela described a household in which “screaming, tongue lashing, non-stop pressure, and contradicting orders given by the prime minister and his wife simultaneously,” were typical.
The constant physical and emotional pressure took a toll on Sela who retired from the position following a heart attack which he attributes to the job’s high demands.
An additional worker at the residence, Guy Eliahu, said in his testimony that Sara Netanyahu would “ask me to bring her food, and when I would return with the requested food she would accuse me of trying to make her fat.”
Eliyahu said that on one occasion, he was called back to the residence after he had already gone home, “after midnight, just so I could heat up a bowl of soup for Mrs. Netanyahu.” He said that upon returning to the residence he was reprimanded by Mrs. Netanyahu and told that he must come back to the residence no matter the hour if she wanted food.
Eliyahu also claimed that he was called back to the residence on one occasion because he had not wished Mrs. Netanyahu goodnight when he left work.
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Typical Israeli altiitude!
“Sara Netanyahu would “ask me to bring her food, and when I would return with the requested food she would accuse me of trying to make her fat.”
Silly woman; she is already fat.
and even if Sara is a B!tch, it is Bibi who is doing a good job of running the country.
If it were not for the elections coming up, we would never hear anything. But this is the best the opposition can do to discredit Bibi.
I prefer not to see b!tch here #3, for that we have the other sites already
These stories only come out during election time.