Israel turns on prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s ‘meddling’ wife
The controversial wife of Israel’s prime minister, Binyamin Netanyahu, has been accused of interfering in government appointments and meddling in affairs of state.
The press criticism directed at Sara Netanyahu, 51, his third wife, and a former air stewardess who now practises as a psychologist, has grown so intense that Netanyahu, 60, appealed to reporters last week: “Leave my wife alone. Attack me, not my family.”
Ben Caspit, a political commentator for the newspaper Maariv, claimed Netanyahu was “unfit to be prime minister” because of his “problematic” wife’s interventions.
“Sara’s problems could have indeed been described as gossip if we were not dealing with a woman with a dramatic influence over state affairs,” he said. “There is no appointment at the prime minister’s office or in government that Sara is not involved with.”
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Her phone calls, which frequently interrupt Netanyahu’s meetings, have been stepped up since a former maid launched a lawsuit accusing Sara of “tyrannising” her .
Yedioth Ahronoth, Israel’s biggest paper, said: “It is time to ask what is the effect of such unbalanced behaviour, to put it mildly, of Sara on the man who decides our destiny?”
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