Sara Netanyahu pummels residence staff, media in employer abuse testimony

Sara Netanyahu, the wife of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, angrily lashes out at a former worker at the Prime Minister’s Residence and the media while testifying in a suit against her.

Netanyahu calls Shira Raban, who is suing her for abusive work conditions, a liar and accuses her of trying to extort the country.

“It’s so easy when you’re not working to sue Sara Netanyahu,” Netanyahu says, referring to herself in the third person. “Shira Raban was in the residence as a mole — I have no doubt about this.”

Sara Netanyahu, wife of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, at a hearing at the Regional Labor Court in Jerusalem, in the case of Shira Raban, a former employee at the Prime Minister’s residence. December 23, 2019. (Yonatan SIndel/FLASH90)

Netanyahu, who has been accused in the media and by Raban of placing draconian conditions on workers and subjecting them to loud and angry outbursts, says the media is “trying with all its effort to make claims against me.”

She adds that she is afraid of the workers in the residence. “To be in a house with a staff is a difficult task. For me it’s like having a shadow. I’m afraid of all the workers.”