‘False accusations’: Likud slams reported complaints against Sara Netanyahu on witness intimidation claims

Sara Netanyahu, wife of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, arrives at the Jerusalem Magistrate's Court for the start of her trial on October 7, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/ Flash90/ File)
Sara Netanyahu, wife of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, arrives at the Jerusalem Magistrate's Court for the start of her trial on October 7, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/ Flash90/ File)

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud party responds to reports that dozens of people had filed police complaints about possible criminal acts by his wife, Sara.

The reported claims followed allegations by the Channel 12 investigative program, Uvda, that Sara Netanyahu sought to intimidate a witness in her husband’s criminal trial and have protesters harass the attorney general and deputy state attorney.

“The collapse of the frivolous claims against Prime Minister Netanyahu in court is no reason to persecute his wife with false accusations,” the Likud statement says. “Aren’t you tired of this?”

According to the TV report, Sara Netanyahu instructed her husband’s secretary to have Likud activists publish attacks on a key witness in one of the criminal cases against the prime minister and to demonstrate outside her house ahead of, or during, her testimony in court, with the intention of intimidating and harassing her.

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