Member of Knesset Ayelet Nachmias Verbin (Zionist Union) lamented, Sunday evening, that President-elect Donald Trump of the United States has become a role model for Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu.
Responding to Netanyahu's call to adopt the US model for political appointments in various government offices, she said, "Netanyahu emulates Trump's harshness, Trump's limping commitment to facts, hatred of foreigners, his hostility to journalists and now he wants to emulate his own exorbitant political appointments."
Nachmias Verbin added, "We need to give Trump credit, but what we have seen so far is not sure that Trump is a model to be emulated for an Israeli prime minister." She concluded, "Only those who see our good before them should be working in the public service of a civilized country, and not those who are waiting for the instructions of the Prime Minister and his agents.