Netanyahu’s son caught in damaging exchange with son of gas company investor
‘Bro, my dad arranged a $20bn deal and you can’t spot me 400 shekels?’
Tel Aviv — Israeli television broadcast a 2015 recording in which Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s son is heard bantering with the son of a shareholder in a gas company that won offshore drilling rights from the government, and asking him for money to pay a stripper. Yair Netanyahu was recorded while cruising between strip clubs in downtown Tel Aviv in a government-supplied armoured car with one of the sons of Isramco Negev 2 LP shareholder Jackob Maimon, according to Hadashot TV news. Along with them was another friend, a secret service agent and a driver. Amid raunchy jokes about a night of drinking at the adult clubs, the younger Netanyahu can be heard complaining that the friend will not lend him money to pay a dancer even though his father benefited from the lucrative gas business with the government. "Bro, my dad arranged a $20bn deal and you can’t spot me 400 shekels ($116)?" Yair Netanyahu says. The conversation was in Hebrew. As police have been conducting an investigati...
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