Miriam Adelson: “Sarah Netanyahu Told me If Iran Wipes Out Israeli, It Would be My Fault”

Israel Hayom publisher speaks to police as part of the investigation into the suspicion that PM Netanyahu offered benefits in exchange for positive news coverage

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Haaretz/Israel: The publisher of the daily Israel Hayom told the police that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife repeatedly contacted her about their coverage in the paper, Channel 12 News reported Thursday.

Miriam Adelson said that Sara Netanyahu “once told me that if Iran gets nuclear weapons and Israel is wiped out, I’ll be to blame, because I’m not defending Bibi,” referring to Netanyahu by his nickname.

Initially, Adelson said, Sara Netanyahu treated her and her husband, Sheldon Adelson, nicely. But as time passed, “there were only complaints.”



For instance, “Her picture was too small. They didn’t write something [when] she visited some children with cancer or something. Complaints all the time. All the time. And it started to be unpleasant. We would listen; we’d hear it and not respond.”

The prime minister also complained about the coverage, she said, and particularly about the former editor in chief, Amos Regev, whom he termed “weak.” Asked what exactly he complained about, she said, “that we don’t defend him. That everybody’s attacking [him] … That all the other newspapers smear him, one after the other, especially before elections.”
Eventually, Adelson said, she and her husband got fed up and stopped visiting the Netanyahus. “From the honored prime minister I would get screaming phone calls in the United States,” she said. And when she heard screaming, “I’d simply put the phone down” and pick it up again only when the screaming stopped, “which could be five or 10 minutes.”

In his decision to charge Netanyahu, Mendelblit wrote that even though the deal never came to fruition, Netanyahu exploited the talks – which took place shortly before an election – to get Yedioth “to refrain from publishing negative reports that could harm you or your family, at least as long as the talks between you continued, and therefore to significantly increase your chances of being reelected as prime minister.”

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  1. https://mondoweiss.net/2015/08/netanyahu-president-citizen/ Quote:
    “By federal law, any American who officially served a foreign country had to renounce her or his U.S. citizenship. “It’s no fun, but you’ll live–I did,” Ron Dermer, a former American who acted as Israel’s economic attache in Washington, consoled me. Netanyahu, who lived for years in the United States, also pooh-poohed the process, assuring me that he had undergone it twice–the first time as a commando in the IDF [Israeli Defense Forces], and then, in America, as deputy chief of mission.”

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