Netanyahu slams Rabin granddaughter for claim official called slain PM ‘traitor’

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu uses his speech at the Knesset memorial ceremony for Yizhak Rabin to attack the slain prime minister’s granddaughter for claiming earlier in the day that an official in the Prime Minister’s Office had called her grandfather “traitor.”

“To my amazement, and I am still amazed, I heard today that a spokesperson at the Prime Minister’s Office published a post with a picture of Yitzhak Rabin’s handshake with Arafat in the White House with the caption ‘traitor,’” he said, referring to the claim made by Noa Rothman, Rabin’s granddaughter, at the official state ceremony held at Har Herzl.

“It never happened,” he says.

Netanyahu says he had directed his office to look into the claim by Rothman, and it was discovered that the post she had been referring to had been written by Breitbart columnist Caroline Glick.