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Audio Of Israeli Prime Minister's Wife Screaming Over Gossip Column Emerges Online

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says the secret recording of his wife is part of a "wild and violent witch hunt" against his family. It's the second embarrassing leak to hit this month.
On Sunday, the Israeli site Walla! News posted a recording it said featured Sara Netanyahu, the wife of the Israeli leader, losing her temper in a 2009 telephone call with an unnamed senior aide who had placed a news item about her in a newspaper gossip column.

A stormy tape recording has surfaced of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's wife screaming at an aide nearly a decade ago, the second such embarrassing leak to hit the Netanyahu family this month.

On Sunday, the Israeli site Walla! News posted a tape recording it said featured Sara Netanyahu, the wife of the Israeli leader, losing her temper in a

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