{"id":436159,"date":"2026-05-11T11:57:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T11:57:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/436159\/"},"modified":"2026-05-11T11:57:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T11:57:08","slug":"pmo-employee-harassed-by-sara-benjamin-netanyahu-paid-thousands-of-nis-in-compensation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/436159\/","title":{"rendered":"PMO employee harassed by Sara Benjamin Netanyahu paid thousands of NIS in compensation"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Prime Minister\u2019s Office employee was paid tens of thousands of shekels in compensation by the state and a human resources company in exchange for dropping a case against Sara Netanyahu<\/a>, KAN News reported on Monday.<\/p>\n

The employee, identified in the KAN News report only as S., filed the lawsuit with the Jerusalem Labor Court several months ago, claiming that during her two years working at the PMO, Netanyahu humiliated and harassed her.<\/p>\n

No comment was provided on Netanyahu’s behalf, KAN noted.<\/p>\n

One of the incidents, KAN shared, happened while S. served the Netanyahus breakfast. According to the report, Netanyahu was unhappy with the way S. had cut the salad and threw olives and tomatoes at her, damaging her clothes.<\/p>\n

Further, S. claimed that Netanyahu had yelled at her in the prime minister’s presence, saying that she “did not love her husband [Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu<\/a>]” and was trying to hurt them.<\/p>\n

A similar lawsuit was filed a few years ago with the Jerusalem Labor Court after Sylvie Genesia, a former employee of the Prime Minister’s residence, claimed that Sara Netanyahu had harassed her throughout her employment.<\/a><\/p>\n

The lawsuit was filed in 2020 and sought NIS 200,000, after Netanyahu accused Genesia – who, according to the claim, worked at the residence for about two months in 2019 – of publishing defamatory statements, breaching confidentiality, and infringing privacy.<\/p>\n

However, in January 2026, Tel Aviv<\/a> Magistrate\u2019s Court Judge Ilan Ronen ordered Genesia to pay Netanyahu NIS 100,000 in damages for defamation – a ruling delivered on procedural grounds after Genesia failed to submit her closing summations despite extensions granted by the court.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Ilan also ordered Genesia to pay an additional NIS 20,000 in legal costs, while stressing that the award did not reflect a substantive acceptance of Netanyahu\u2019s claims, but rather the consequence of the defendant\u2019s ongoing failure to meet court deadlines.<\/p>\n

Sarah Ben-Nun contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Prime Minister\u2019s Office employee was paid tens of thousands of shekels in compensation by the state and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":436160,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[18064,42,3195,43,2396,80617,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-436159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-compensation","tag-headlines","tag-lawsuit","tag-news","tag-prime-minister","tag-sara-netanyahu","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=436159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436159\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/436160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=436159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=436159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=436159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}