Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s family is demanding NIS 1 million in compensation from former prime minister Ehud Olmert, threatening to sue him for slander after he referred to them as “mentally ill” in an interview, N12 reported Monday.
Olmert’s controversial comment was said during an interview given to Democrat TV last week, in which he heavily criticized the current government and its conduct during the coronavirus pandemic.
“What can’t be fixed is the mental illness of the prime minister and his wife and son,” Olmert said, adding that “under regular circumstances any psychiatrist with a healthy conscience … would tell you that they need to be hospitalized. They are sick people.”
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{Matzav.com}
