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Bar-Illan
NPR's Eric Weiner reports from Jerusalem on the small tempest that erupted after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's heretofore loyal spokesman, David Bar-Illan, made some rather eye-raising remarks to an American journalist about his boss and his boss's wife. Bar-Illan was quoted in The New Yorker as making light of Netanyahu's religiousness and claiming his boss was a loner, and that no one knew what he truly stood for. He also said that Sara Netanyahu, the prime minister's wife, was unstable and a problem for the Prime Minister. The comments have pushed the deadlocked peace process off the front pages of Israeli newspapers and become the dominant subject in conversations in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv.
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