- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu often brings his dirty laundry with him on official visits to the US, so that government staff will clean it for free, The Washington Post reported.
- “The Netanyahus are the only ones who bring actual suitcases of dirty laundry for us to clean,” a US official told The Post. “After multiple trips, it became clear this was intentional.”
- The US government offers dry cleaning and laundry services free of charge to foreign dignitaries, according to The Post.
- Netanyahu last visited the White House on September 15. The Israeli embassy in Washington, DC, said there was nothing abnormal about Netanyahu’s washing demands.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu consistently brings bags of dirty laundry when he and his family visit President Donald Trump in Washington, DC, so White House staff can clean it for free, according to The Washington Post.
“The Netanyahus are the only ones who bring actual suitcases of dirty laundry for us to clean,” an anonymous US official told The Post. “After multiple trips, it became clear this was intentional.”
Since former President Barack Obama’s administration, the US government has offered laundry services to all foreign leaders for free, The Post reported. The trend has continued into Trump’s administration, US officials told the newspaper.
Netanyahu lasted visited the White House on September 15, 2020, when Trump presided over the signing of the Abraham Accords, a diplomatic-normalization agreement between Israel, the United Arab Emirates, and Bahrain.
The Post did not specify where Netanyahu and his wife stayed the night, but the venue was likely Blair House, one of a clutch of buildings opposite the White House that together make up the President’s Guest House.
Read the article by Bill Bostock in Business Insider Australia.