Sara Netanyahu, who’s gotten terrible press lately, accuses the media of being willing to pay sources and “put them on a pedestal” in return for negative stories about her.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife Sara celebrate a birthday at the Prime Minister’s Office in Jerusalem on October 21, 2012. (Photo credit: Avi Ohayon/GPO/Flash90)
“I have been under the gaze of the media since 1996. We were a young couple on the wrong side of the political spectrum. We look okay, we are educated, with small cute children. One journalist once told me, ‘if you were from the left side of politics, you, exactly as you are, would be our queen.’”
Netanyahu also rejected accusations that she was interfering with the work of her husband. “I do not sit in on government meetings. Honestly, there are wives and husbands of MKs who are way more involved than me in their partners’ work. He does not ask for my advice on government, security or economics, all subjects I know nothing about.”
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