PM slams Mandelblit for not stopping threats; A-G: Baseless claims
Netanyahu asked Mandelblit what he would do if the sexual threats were against his own wife, singling her out by name.
By GIL HOFFMANPrime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (L) and Attorney-General Avichai Mandelblit (R)(photo credit: MARC ISRAEL SELLEM/THE JERUSALEM POST)
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu lashed out at Attorney-General Avichai Mandelblit in a letter to him on Tuesday, accusing him of not doing anything to stop threats to harm him and his family.“You have done nothing in the face of calls to murder me and my family and threats to rape my wife,” Netanyahu wrote Mandelblit. “This is nothing less than the bloodletting of us, and it is scandalous.”Netanyahu asked Mandelblit what he would do if the sexual threats were against his own wife, singling her out by name. The prime minister said he was sure Mandelblit would have taken action.Mandelblit responded that Netanyahu’s claims were baseless. He said 29 cases had been opened for incitement against Netanyahu and his family in recent months, including a man questioned under caution on Tuesday for writing lewd comments about her on social media.“Public figures play a key role in calming down the situation,” he wrote back to Netanyahu.Channel 13 reported on Tuesday that Netanyahu and Mandelblit had met only once since March.Netanyahu’s wife, Sara, filed a complaint on charges of incitement against her on Tuesday. A policewoman came to the Prime Minister’s Residence to receive the complaint, Channel 12 reported.
