PM bemoans lack of privacy after wife heard berating aide in secret recording

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife slam the press after a secret recording of Sara Netanyahu was broadcast in which she can be heard screaming at a media adviser working for the family.

“We have had enough of secret recordings and the breakdown of the norms of privacy, all in the name of slandering the Netanyahu family,” says a statement by the Netanyahus. “This is a prejudicial and vicious publication of secret recording from nine years ago.”

The response comes after Walla news broadcast a 2009 recording of Sara Netanyahu berating a media adviser for a brief news article which said “the wife of the prime minister also has to to do public work.”

“What is this?” Sara Netanyahu can be heard shouting down the phone. “Why? Why? This wife of the prime minister does public work every day! In her professional work! I am doing it as a woman of the profession as an educated woman! Psychologist BA! MA! That’s it!”

Sara Netanyahu is trained and works as an educational psychologist.

In their statement, the Netanyahus say that the prime minister’s wife “devotes a significant amount of her time towards treating children, their families… as an expert psychologist.”

Earlier this month recordings of the prime minister’s son, Yair Netanyahu, were broadcast in which he could be heard making disparaging comments about women during a night of excess in a series of Tel Aviv strip clubs and trying to parlay, apparently in jest, a gas deal worth billions of dollars into cash for strippers from a gas tycoon’s son.