On video: Riot at the hearing to approve expenses for the Netanyahu couple: "Running like mice"/Knesset Channel
During the war, the Director General of the Prime Minister's Office, Yossi Sheli, approved making repairs to the Prime Minister's house, including the renovation of the pool - this was revealed this evening (Monday) in the newspaper "Haaretz". Among other things, repairing the steps of the pool and dealing with leaks from it.
According to the report, following the decision to approve the renovation, a dispute emerged between the CEO of Netanyahu's office and the office's accountant, Roy Benvanishti.
The latter objected to the request on the grounds that it was a private expense, but the CEO approved it anyway. Benvanishti, it was reported, even asked to leave his position amid the conflicts regarding the financing of the Netanyahu family's expenses, but the office had difficulty finding a replacement.
A source in the Prime Minister's Office told the newspaper that "All the repairs comply with the rules." And he emphasized: "This is financing for the maintenance of the house and not for its improvement."
The prime minister uses the pool in the summer."
"Everything is subject to procedures."
Netanyahu on the background of the daycare center in Caesarea/photo editing, Shlomi Gabai, Yonatan Zindel Flash 90, Alex Kolomoisky
The finance committee approved last February to increase the expenses of the Prime Minister's residence.
Among other things, the members of the committee approved, by a majority of nine supporters against four opponents, the increase of clothing and performance expenses to NIS 80,000.
Full funding was also approved for the Prime Minister's wife's participation in events and conferences in Israel and abroad, the doubling of the number of employees at the Prime Minister's residence and funding for the two family homes, in Caesarea and on Gaza Street in Jerusalem.
Accordingly, according to the request, the state will bear all the expenses required for the operation and maintenance of the official residence as well as accommodation expenses.
According to Netanyahu's request, the state will also bear all the expenses of the private house in Caesarea.
Unusually, Knesset Speaker Amir Ohana authorized the committee to continue the discussion of Netanyahu's request until 11:30, even though it is the time of the Knesset plenum's meeting. Here".
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Director General of the Prime Minister's Office Yossi Sheli in an interview with News 12, October 9, 2023/Official website, News 12
During the stormy discussion in the committee at the time, members of Netanyahu's office admitted that there had never been a case in which the state bore the expenses of two prime minister's residences.
The director general of my office added that the current expenses of the residence in Balfour were 1.6 million shekels and according to him "now it will be less." MK Tali Gottlieb of the Likud was shocked in response to criticism from the opposition: "The prime minister will not live at sea, there is no official residence today. Your prime minister You have to live in an official residence."
The members of the opposition in Liak and Hamad Amr answered her: "But why two houses?".
At the beginning of the hearing, the CEO explained the request he submitted and said that "the house in Balfour was destroyed, there is nothing intact in it.
It's been a year and a half since the government changed and it will take at least two more years until the renovation is finished, that's a long time.
The Prime Minister was offered a number of residential alternatives and after considering things, he chose to live in his private residence.
It will be a kind of hybrid creature, both his private residence in Jerusalem that will serve as an official residence and his private home.
After we approve the request, everything is subject to procedures."
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