Tel Aviv: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife testified in court on Tuesday that a journalist had invented a story that Sara Netanyahu once ordered her husband out of their car during a row.
Netanyahu, 67, described the report of the alleged incident as “ludicrous”, “preposterous” and a complete fabrication. He said he and his wife had decided to bring a libel suit because they felt the journalist had gone too far and made it up.
Igal Sarna wrote on his Facebook page a year ago that an angry Sara Netanyahu had ordered the prime minister’s convoy to stop on the Tel Aviv-Jerusalem highway in the middle of the night because she did not want him in the car any longer.
“I am uncertain as to whether she threw him out or whether he ejected himself from the vehicle,” Sarna told Netanyahu’s lawyer during testimony at Tel Aviv’s magistrates court.
Read the full article by Maayan Lubell at The Sydney Morning Herald.