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Mr. Netanyahu decided to show Israel his home recently.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/wor...per-household-spending-in-damning-report.html
And, let's not forget social media;
How is this man suppose to run the only democracy in the Middle East while living like a servant?!
OK, ok,.. ok! Stop it. So, big deal! He is trying to show he lives a less than excessive lifestyle. I mean, it's not like he is being accused of misapproriating public fu,..
NOW I get why American Conservative LOVE this guy - he treats people like shit and lies about it!
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/wor...per-household-spending-in-damning-report.html
,.. a video filmed by a professional home-designer and TV personality depicting a hard-pressed Mr Netanyahu bearing the burdens of state while living in apparent decrepitude.
And, let's not forget social media;
,... on Mr Netanyahu's Facebook page - painted a picture of domestic austerity bordering on squalor.
Guided around the Balfour Street residence by Mr Netanyahu's wife, Sara, Galamin homed in such unedifying details as mildewed curtain, broken door frames, peeling paint and a leaking patio roof where the Israeli leader is expected to entertain guests.
How is this man suppose to run the only democracy in the Middle East while living like a servant?!
The first hitch came after it emerged that a badly run-down kitchen filmed by Galamin - and compared by him to a 1950s Romanian boarding school - turned out not to be that used by Israel's first couple but by their servants.
Despite Mrs Netanyahu's protestation that the prime minister was often to be found there late at night nibbling yellow cheese and schnitzel, the Netanyahus real kitchen was a modern state-of-the-art job on the second floor, according to Israel's Channel 10 news.
OK, ok,.. ok! Stop it. So, big deal! He is trying to show he lives a less than excessive lifestyle. I mean, it's not like he is being accused of misapproriating public fu,..
The second blow landed at 4pm local time on Tuesday afternoon, when Joseph Shapira, Israel's state comptroller, published his long-awaited reported which - however dryly - laid out how Mr Netanyahu had failed to exercise his household spending prerogatives in a prime ministerial manner.
Public money had been improperly spent on food, maintenance, cleaning and hairdressing, Mr Shapira wrote.
Expenditure on meals had soared, the comptroller recorded, with funds being lavished on outside caterers even though an in-house cook was employed.
Food costs from £11,810 in 2010 to £26,638 in 2012 before falling back drastically the following year, when initial details appeared in the Israeli media about alleged overspending. Similar patterns were noted for cleaning bills, with the cost of cleaning the Netanyahus' private residence in the coastal resort of Caesarea reaching £1,380 a month, even though they spent little time there.
"The way in which the budget of the prime minister's residence was managed during the years 2009-2012 does not comply with the basic principles of money management, saving, and efficiency," Mr Shapira wrote severely. "We can expect a publicly elected official, as senior as he may be, to show more public sensitivity."
Amid the extravagance, he revealed, lowly staff at the prime ministerial household were denied reimbursement claims for petty expenses incurred on Mr Netanyahu's behalf while performing their duties.
NOW I get why American Conservative LOVE this guy - he treats people like shit and lies about it!