From the Liveblog of
Tuesday, March 19, 2024
Netanyahu complains Israel’s PR suffers because he’s surrounded by people ‘who can’t put two words together’ in English
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reportedly told a high-level Knesset meeting that Israel’s international PR suffers because of a lack of personnel who can speak English clearly.
According to quotes from Channel 12 from a closed-door meeting of the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, Netanyahu was asked if Israel’s international hasbara problem was due to a lack of funding.
“It’s not just a lack of money. There simply are no people, you are surrounded by people who can’t put two words together [in English]. We need to find them,” he said.
In response to the reports, Netanyahu’s office says that he “deeply values the work of his team and of the Public Diplomacy Directorate that operates under him, and he said this to the Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee.”
