Netanyahu family under serious allegations — debts in the thousands

A Haaretz investigation uncovered 1996 documents showing the Netanyahu family used the Maccabi health fund as a private fund, received treatment under fictitious names, and demanded coverage of expenses outside the official basket. After the fund refused, doctors were left with debts in the thousands of shekels, still unpaid to this day.

A Haaretz investigation, reported by Kursor, uncovered documents from 1996, when Benjamin Netanyahu was prime minister. The family used the Maccabi health fund as a private fund: they received treatment under fictitious names, including 'Amichai Meyerovich', and demanded coverage of expenses outside the official basket—from children's dentistry to refunds for supermarket purchases. The Knesset doctor Yitzhak Lifshitz served as an intermediary before the fund's director general, Shabtai Shavit. Initially, the management accommodated them, but after a year, the director general ordered the practice stopped after covering expenses 'amounting to more than 18,000 shekels beyond what is legally permitted.' After the refusal, private doctors and therapists were left with debts in the thousands of shekels, still unpaid to this day. In correspondence, a therapist wrote to Sara Netanyahu about a long delay in payment since July 1997; another doctor complained that payment took two years. The family did not respond to requests.