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She added, "It makes us some healthy knocks from the very sad that we placed our press after her illegal U.S. bank trust in a person whom we account effectively forced her brought into our home, and in husband to resign as prime min- whose hands we placed the ister in 1977. (Actually he took thing most dear to us, our chil- leave until the elections, which dren, and [who] violated that Labor promptly lost.) trust." But neither of these precedents approached the blast directed at Israel's new "First Lady," Sarah Ne- tanyahu, which has been instantly dubbed as Israel's "Nannygate." The true, "objective" facts will surely never be known. Nor are they, in the broader scheme of things, particularly im- portant. After being summarily fired for burning a pot of soup (or so her version goes), 21- year-old Tanya Shaw, a new immigrant from South Africa who had been working for the Ne- tanyahus as an au pair, found her way to the of- fices of the daily Ma'ariv. There, she gave a scathing portrait of Mrs. Netanyahu as an imperious Simon Legree with the graciousness of a Scrooge and a hand- Tanya Shaw during an interview in Tel Aviv after her washing obsession of firing. Lady Macbeth propor- The entire affair might be dis- tions. The paper devoted four full missed as common gossip, but news pages to Tanya's tale and not in Israel. Ironically, the followed it with similar "testi- press there has traditionally mony" by Heide Ben-Yair, an practiced almost prim discretion earlier au pair; she had lasted a in handling the private lives of mere week in the Netanyahu public figures. But that seems to have changed. household before walking out. It is indicative, they say, not At first, Mrs. Netanyahu left the damage control to the Prime just of a changing style in both Minister's Bureau, which issued politics and the media but of a a brief statement claiming that more mutually destructive re- the young woman was fired due lationship between the prime to "problems of instability" and minister and the press. Gossip about the Netanyahus' on the recommendation of "se- curity people." That last claim private life, past and present be- remained intact even after a se- gan during the election cam- nior security source denied that paign; stepped up during the they had any complaint against coalition talks (when his wife the au pair or even dealt with was said to be intervening in his such matters. After the story be- choice of appointments); and came the talk of the country, peaked last week with the nan- and threatened to cast a pall ny scandal. Some critics claim that Mr. over the Netanyahus' trip to the United States, Sarah Ne- Netanyahu himself whet the tanyahu took up the battle. Granting interviews to the NANNYGATE page 44 CLASSIFIED GET RESULTS! Call The Jewish News 354-5959 A P/RRIAN I-IFNI-1 1 FR Practically Everything STOREWIDE