Family of PM’s late aide Bleiweiss to sue Netanyahus, claiming harassment and abuse
Lawsuit will reportedly allege PM used Hana Bleiweiss as a ‘wallet,’ ignored harassment she suffered from Likud officials, including claims she was faking her fatal cancer

The family of Hanni Bleiweiss, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s late aide, is set to file a lawsuit of some NIS 8 million ($2,182,000) against the prime minister’s family, alleging that Bleiwieiss — who died of cancer in 2023 — was abused and humiliated in her role and suffered damage to her health as a result, according to a Monday report.
The Channel 12 report came after the network’s investigative program “Uvda” last week published text messages between Bleiweiss and the prime minister’s wife, Sara Netanyahu, that appeared to show efforts to combat people perceived as enemies of the first family. The report prompted dozens of police complaints against the prime minister’s wife, who has denied any wrongdoing.
According to Channel 12, Bleiweiss’s family will allege that the Netanyahu family regularly had the late aide spend her own money for work, purchasing items including food for employees of the Likud party as well as personal products for the prime minister and his family, for which she was reliant on the Netanyahus for reimbursement.
The cancer-stricken aide was made to spend some NIS 400,000 ($109,000) of her own money during her employment, according to the lawsuit, which alleges that “in practice, the plaintiff was used as the [the prime minister]’s ‘wallet.'”
In addition, Likud party officials are accused of harassing Bleiweiss, including one instance in which the party’s director-general allegedly claimed Bleiweiss was faking her cancer diagnosis.
The aide’s family also claims that Bleiweiss sent the prime minister faxes showing the instances of harassment, but received no response, and was even treated worse after providing that evidence, the report said.

Likud responded to Channel 12 on Monday with a statement alleging “these claims are lies, devoid of any foundation, lacking any basis, whose goal is to squeeze money from Likud, as will become clear in court.”
Also Monday, Police Commissioner Daniel Levy admitted a “longstanding friendship” with Bleiweiss, after originally denying any relationship with her, following the “Uvda” report last week.
The investigation claimed Bleiweiss talked up Levy to Sara Netanyahu, and that he himself had offered messages of support for the premier through her.
Following Levy’s admission on Monday, the leader of the left-wing Democrats party, Yair Golan, leveled what his spokesman described as an “explicit threat” at the police commissioner, when Golan railed against “personal loyalty to Netanyahu at the expense of loyalty to the law.”
Sara Netanyahu filed a separate lawsuit on Monday against several news organizations over reports that she had leaked to friends classified information — including of Israel’s intention to assassinate Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah in the days before his killing — that wound up on a popular Telegram feed.