Jerusalem – Social media has been awash with outrage over the weekend after an Israeli Facebook user published a story about Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s son Yair and his failure to pick up the Netanyahu family dog’s waste.
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According to a Facebook post by Talila Amitai, one of the Netanyahu family’s neighbors, Yair Netanyahu took the family dog Kaiya for a walk in one of the local dog parks but failed to pick up her waste.
Amitai wrote that when she pointed this out to the Israeli leader’s son, who was accompanied by a bodyguard at the time, he stuck up his middle finger towards her in response.
The post, which is written in Hebrew and has been shared over 3,000 times on Facebook, includes photos of the dog’s waste and Yair Netanyahu walking away from Amitai.
This is not the first time that the Netanyahu family’s dog has made the news. At a Hannukah party at the prime minister’s residence in 2015, Kaiya bit Likud MK Sharon Haskel and the husband of Deputy Foreign Minister Tzipi Hotovely. The two required medical attention and Netanyahu apologized for the incident.
Yair Netanyahu responded to the Facebook post on Saturday afternoon, launching a scathing criticism of the neighbor but failed to deny his alleged hand gesture.
“We are speaking about a woman who regularly – every time she sees Yair or another family member walking with Kaiya – approaches them without reason, intimidates, offends and acts aggressively towards them without any interaction from the other side,” said a statement issued on behalf of Netanyahu’s son.
“Yair does not know if Kaiya did defecate as the woman alleges or not, as he was occupied with a telephone call when the woman approached him aggressively in her usual way. In light of previous bad experiences with her, Yair immediately left the area,” concluded the statement.
This is the least of Netanyahu’s problems.
hmm, very meaningful news-worthy to be made public.
I guess theres a lack of news– “no news is good news”
Netanyahu, dog, waste, its all one thing
I am amused by this.
These people need to get a LIFE..if their BIGGEST concern is following Nentanyahu’s dog + Taking Pictures of His POOP..then THEY have PROBLEMS! lol
Very symbolic. Bibi would not give a sh.t about many things and he3 can not govern even his own son.
I agree with Netanyahu’s neighbor who protested. We had the same problem in Brooklyn years ago, prior to dog walkers scooping up the poop of their dogs. They would routinely let their pooches do their thing on the sidewalk. When they were asked about cleaning up, they would become confrontational. It became so bad, that one constantly had to look down to see where they were walking. One time, I asked a member of the Sanitation Police about that problem. He told me that they had to actually witness the dog owner letting their dog, poop on the sidewalk, before issuing a summons. One time, my boss was not fortunate, and he accidentally stepped into dog poop on the way to the office. He had a nice pair of new shoes, on. It was very difficult, and most unpleasant for him, to get that mess off his shoes. He was modt upset that morning, and I stayed out of his way.
“We had the same problem in Brooklyn years ago, prior to dog walkers scooping up the poop of their dogs”.
I don’t know where you live; maybe Borough Park where they only have 2 legged dogs, but in flatbush, the goyim are not as meticulous in cleaning up after their dogs. Yes, many years ago when i was a child, the signs said “Curb your Dog”, and there was no requirement to “scoop”. Now, most people Do clean up; unfortunately, many don’t. The law should allow confiscation of a dog if his owner is caught leaving a “deposit”.
BTW, I thought that in Israel every dog needs to be licensed, and a DNA sample is taken, and when someone doesn’t clean up, DNA is taken from the “evidence” , and the owner severely penalized. They should make it happen in NYC as well!