Prime Minister's wife at the Netanyahu trial hearing: "In the middle of a war, no renovation is done"/Bini Ashkenazi
In the Prime Minister's office in Jerusalem, in recent months, an extensive and visible interior renovation was carried out in the foyer that leads to the Prime Minister's office, Walla! has learned.
The renovation, which according to sources was carried out during the war, included the repainting of the walls and coverings, the replacement of the doors, the purchase of new furniture and the renewal of lighting fixtures in the space leading to the "aquarium" where Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu sits, on the first floor of the office, where the offices of the Chief of Staff and Spokesperson are located "M.
The renovation in the Prime Minister's office for Jerusalem joins a series of improvement and renovation works in the Prime Minister's offices and dormitories in recent months, estimated at millions of shekels. The Prime Minister's office in the Knesset also underwent an extensive renovation last summer, at an estimated cost of about four million shekels. As part of the renovation, the office was expanded and added to. Rooms, including a meeting room and an office for Netanyahu's chief of staff, Tzachi Braverman.
Netanyahu at a press conference at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, yesterday/Flash 90, Yonatan Zindel
Prime Minister's Office Building, Jerusalem/Flash 90, Hadas Proosh
In addition, last month it was revealed in "Haaretz" that the Prime Minister's Office approved during the war the renovation of the pool in the Netanyahu family's private home in Caesarea and other repairs to the house, against the background of the office's accountant's objection to financing the renovation.
The Prime Minister's Office claimed that these are minimal and safety repairs to preserve the existing, which are done according to the law and in accordance with the procedure for maintaining the houses of ministers and prime ministers.
Last November, also during the war, the Finance Committee approved the transfer of NIS 56 million to the Prime Minister's Office, of which NIS 30 million for the renovation of his official residence on Balfour Street in Jerusalem, which has been closed for about two and a half years due to the renovation.
Netanyahu's office claimed that these were commitments to suppliers given during the time of his predecessors in office, and that the actual increase is only four million shekels.
Officials in the Prime Minister's Office responded: "This is the completion of a much more extensive renovation plan in the Prime Minister's Office that was already approved in the previous term and continued in the Bennett and Lapid government, in which all kinds of parts and offices as well as the cabinet room were renovated. The renovation that was carried out at the beginning of the war at the entrance to the office is part of the same broad plan that already It was approved and budgeted for and started a long time ago."
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