MK Nurit Koren (Likud) on Monday criticized the speech given by former Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin's granddaughter, Noa Rothman, at the memorial service for her grandfather on Mount Herzl.
In her speech, Rothman verbally attacked Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and accused “a spokeswoman at the Prime Minister's Office” of publishing a picture of her grandfather with former Palestinian Authority chairman Yasser Arafat with the word “traitor”.
Rothman was actually referring to a tweet by Jerusalem Post writer Caroline Glick. Netanyahu later responded to Rothman, clarifying that the tweet was not posted by a person whose salary is paid by taxpayers and stressing that he is renouncing the contents of the tweet.
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