“I can stand here until tomorrow morning, ladies and gentlemen, and tell you what the media has done to me,” Netanyahu told a judge last year in court in a defamation case is different. “But let’s save time,” she said.
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“I think the media has hidden all the great things that I do,” she added.
But over the past year, some of those who were close to Mr. Netanyahu have lifted the veil on some of the family’s internal dealings, speaking openly on television and in court, under oath, about the scandals. motion.
Ms. Netanyahu has attracted many sensational headlines over the years after getting into trouble household spending and was sued by a domestic employee for The act of cursing, hitting. Now, Yair Netanyahu’s growing influence over his father and his stern voice on radio and social media is gaining more and more attention.
In November, Yair Netanyahu joined a right-wing Twitter campaign criticizing military superiors for suspending two soldiers from active duty for physically and verbally abusing left-wing activists. of Israel in the occupied West Bank.
In October, just hours after a TV news report said Israel and Lebanon were close to reaching an agreement demarcation of economic boundaries at seahe tweeted or retweeted nearly 80 posts criticizing the deal the government finally reached, which was a shameful surrender to Lebanon – a message his father, as faction leader opposition, has quickly incorporated into its campaign.
In June, Yair Netanyahu wrote a column for ICE, an Israeli online publication, detailing the various rulers and conquests of the Holy Land, starting with Biblical times, concluding that the Jews are the sole legal owners. His father made a similar case in his autobiography, “Bibi: My Story,” published this fall, and the new government guidelines begin with a statement about “the exclusive and inalienable right of the Jews to all parts of the Land of Israel. “
