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Israel’s Netanyahu spent $24,000 on takeout, and it’s causing a scandal
Rewriting Jewish History
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stands with his wife, Sara, after voting in the municipal elections in Jerusalem on Oct. 22, 2013. (Dan Balilty/AP)
If the Exodus were repeated today without
having enough time to cook
they might simply have ordered takeout
and thus re-written The Book
No more unappetizing unbaked bread,
but like Marie Antoinette, had " Let them eat cake"
or, perhaps, with the right chefs, instead,
falafel , salmon and steak.
hzl
Ash Wednesday
2/17/15
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stands with his wife, Sara, after voting in the municipal elections in Jerusalem on Oct. 22, 2013. (Dan Balilty/AP)
JERUSALEM — After nine years with Benjamin Netanyahu as their prime minister, Israelis know a lot about him and his first lady, Sara. Now they also know how much the couple spends on hair and makeup, maid service and swimming pool water.
On Tuesday, at precisely 4 p.m., the Israeli state comptroller released an eagerly awaited report condemning the Netanyahus for “excessive spending” at both the prime minister’s official residence at 2 Balfour St. in Jerusalem and the couple’s private beachfront villa in Caesarea.
Want to know how much the Netanyahus billed the Israeli taxpayer for takeout food in 2011? It was 92,781 shekels, or about $24,000, “even though there was a chef in the residence,” the comptroller noted disapprovingly.
The comptroller’s office warned of more investigations in the offing — into the issue of improper bottle recycling by the Netanyahus, for one. Apparently, the couple pocketed $1,000 in cash refunds paid by stores when staff returned drink bottles for deposit. The bottles were purchased by the state, the report noted, and so the refunds should have been returned to the treasury.....
.....Quick-eyed Israeli reporters noticed right away that the kitchen presented in the video is not the Netanyahus’ only kitchen. It is the staff kitchen, they said, the working galley where chefs whip up dinner for guests. There is a modern, unrevealed kitchen for the couple’s use on the second floor.
This might not have been the ideal optic for the Netanyahus, and especially for Sara — already a controversial figure in Israel, lampooned by TV parody shows as a Jewish Marie Antoinette.......
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