In recordings of recent testimony given by Sara Netanyahu for probes into her misuse of public funds, the prime minister’s wife is said to have claimed that she was not the one in charge of making the food orders that cost Israeli tax payers hundreds of thousands of shekel.
Channel 10 reports that Netanyahu told investigators that she is “a very busy woman who does not deal with household matters.”
“I’m a psychologist and I care for families with children, and I do not have time to deal with the home,” the TV channel quotes her as saying.
The prime minister’s wife is said to have boasted rarely having hosted friends at the Jerusalem residence, “as opposed to our predecessors.”
Channel 10 reports that she told investigators that former caretaker Meny Naftali was responsible for the high food costs, which included fees for private chefs as well as take-out food.
When pressed on whether the Netanyahus hired chefs when they had friends over in addition to ordering take-out, she insisted that they did not.
When the investigators assured her that was not the case, Netanyahu corrected herself, saying she meant that they did not hire chefs when close friends were over.
Sara Netanyahu, wife of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, on January 22, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
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