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This is true: Sarah Netanyahu's interview testifies to her great distress

The remarks made yesterday by the prime minister's wife provoked a great deal of anger, but psychiatrist Dr. Ilan Rabinovich believes they come from authentic anxiety, and that they testify to what is happening in the most important home in the country.

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Dr. Ilan Rabinovich

Most of all, the spontaneous telephone interview of the Prime Minister's wife, Mrs. Sarah Netanyahu, indicates a great distress of authentic anxiety and a call for help. Mrs. Netanyahu is not Mary Antoinette who feels elevated from the people by saying "if there is no bread you will eat cakes". She genuinely feels like a victim of "rape" over and over again. She believes in this in all of Ramach Avria and Shasa Gidia. The people who resent the comparisons she has made between her and the victims of sexual assault do not understand that she expresses in her words the tremendous pressure she is under, even if the comparison really seems inappropriate.

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In such situations it is difficult to have a dialogue with the person who is suffering, because he is immersed in a private monologue, which indicates more than anything the great difficulty that the situation causes him.

The Netanyahu couple are united in the face of the persecution they feel

In successful and successful people the advantages are also the disadvantages, and vice versa. Attributes that bring them to accomplishments, such as perfectionism, totality, mission, meticulous attention to detail, tremendous self-criticism and self-preaching to perfection with a head that works non-stop - can get them shivering in stressful situations.

From the same place that Netanyahu was an outstanding gifted student, she completed a master's degree in psychology with great success and obsessively observes the cleanliness and management of the Prime Minister's House in Balfour while preaching to obligatory ceremonies from the staff, from the same place.

Her husband, the prime minister, repeatedly asked, "Hurt me but not my wife," and he had a reason for it. He feels a strong need to protect her, and despite all the slander - their marital connection is like a solid rock, with great love. Moreover, any harm to his wife only brings their sons closer together, uniting them with a sense of mission in the face of the persecution they feel. The couple's love is intense at home in Balfour, and it is growing day by day following the signs and the cry of the crowd.

The demonstrations in Balfour feel like the end of the world

The repeated demonstrations of thousands of people near the prime minister's residence, her own home, make Mrs. Netanyahu feel a severe sense of apocalypse. A sense of major anxiety about what is expected to happen. Fear of the mob that might overtake the house and harm its occupants. Feeling she's not protected. Reality does not matter, it matters what the person feels - and Mrs. Netanyahu felt tremendous distress, and from there came her need to go on the air and without filters, without preconditions, without a media consultant who would surely have prevented her from interviewing her during a period of political instability.

This important interview testified more than anything to the mood in the Prime Minister's House. Not only the content was important but also the intonation, the sound, the fluency of the speech

This important interview testified more than anything to the mood in the Prime Minister's House. Not only the content was important but also the intonation, the sound, the fluency of the speech. Perhaps it is appropriate to discuss Mrs. Netanyahu according to the custom of Beit Hillel and instead of attacking the contents and comparisons she made (some of which are unacceptable), understand that no person was tried in his distress and had no real intention of harming or discounting sexual assault victims.

I believe that behind Mrs. Netanyahu's words there is no evil or contempt for the other's troubles. Most of all, the interview testifies to what is happening in the most important home in the country - a home where fates are determined and affect every citizen in Israel. The big question is does this mindset influence and harm the prime minister and his function?