Expenses for Netanyahu’s official residence in Jerusalem and his private home were the lowest in the past seven years, according to numbers released Sunday by the Prime Minister’s Office.
All expenses were approved by the relevant professionals based on decisions of the Knesset and the government attorney, the PMO says in a statement.
A woman walks by the Prime Minister’s Residence in Jerusalem, November 2, 2014 (Hadas Parush/Flash90)
The PMO, however, declines to release receipts for the expenses, saying it would have been too time-consuming to collate them and that it was under no legal requirement to do so.
The government spent NIS 1,844,000 ($474,000) in total for the official residence and Netanyahu’s private home in Caesarea. That compares to almost NIS 2 million in 2014, and over NIS 2 million in previous years, as well as over NIS 3 million in 2012.
— Times of Israel staff
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