What happened at the off-the-record sit-down between Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and the chareidi press? Has a new Bibi emerged?
Critics say that Netanyahu’s policies have made Israel into a pariah state but Bibi loves to point to the countries he has forged stronger relationship with to debunk the naysayers (Photos: Flash 90)
The off-the-record sit-down between Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and the chareidi press lasted so long if you had finished a meat meal before the doors closed you could have eaten dairy ice cream just as they were reopened.
But Netanyahu tarnished by a recent state comptroller’s report for spending too much of the taxpayer’s money on refreshments for guests only set out plates of fruit during a wide-ranging presentation that was anything but plain vanilla.
Some 20 members of the domestic chareidi press were asked to check their cameras and computing devices at the door — one of the ground rules for this gathering hastily arranged the night before by his new press aide Dr. Ran Baratz. (Netanyahu held a similar meeting with the secular press just one week earlier.)
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