Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s wife, Sara, will join her husband this evening as he departs for a 10-day trip to Argentina, Colombia, Mexico and the US, even as she faces an impending fraud indictment for misuse of state funds, the Prime Minister’s Office says.
Until hours before their departure it was unclear whether Sara Netanyahu would be joining the prime minister on his four-day trip to Latin America. In an unusual step, the PMO, in a statement about the upcoming visit issued Friday, mentioned only his name, leaving unanswered the question of whether she would be coming along.
Benjamin Netanyahu, right, with his wife Sara Netanyahu, boarding a plane to the US, at Ben-Gurion Airport, on February 13, 2017. (Avi Ohayun/GPO)
Israel’s Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit announced on Friday that he intends to indict Sara Netanyahu for fraud for allegedly diverting some NIS 360,000 ($102,000) in public funds for her own use.
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