JERUSALEM (AP) – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s son has reportedly reached a court settlement with a former driver whom he sued for releasing a recording made while he was joyriding with his friends during a drunken night at Tel Aviv strip clubs.
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Israeli media said Sunday that Roi Rozen has agreed to pay Yair Netanyahu $8,500 and publicly apologize for leaking the covert recording.
In the recording, Yair Netanyahu and his friends make disparaging comments about strippers, waitresses and other women. He also brags how his father pushed through a controversial natural gas deal that benefited the father of one of his friends.
Yair Netanyahu filed a $280,000 defamation suit against Rozen last year.
After the video was made public, the often-combative younger Netanyahu quickly apologized.
Seems odd that sexual misconduct means so little in a country based on religious ideals. Bibi cheats on his wife. In the US that would have been an issue. In Israel it is not.
To Paul in Saudi Arabia- You think, that the Arab sheiks, with their dozens of wives in your country of residence, Saudi Arabia, don’t sexually harass their Filippino maids or abuse them? There have been many reports of such incidents. Yet, you never, ever, have the guts to comment upon such conditions in Saudi Arabia, on this site. You can safely criticize Israel with impunity, from the autocratic dictatorship that you reside in. Admit that you don’t have the nerve to criticize any conditions publicly in Saudi Arabia!