Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu published a lengthy statement in which he attacks journalists Yinon Magal and Amit Segal, who according to him are "joining the attacks" against his wife Sarah and son Yair. He claimed that Sarah Netanyahu is "a true heroine" who "undergoes character assassination that no prime minister's wife has gone through in the country and perhaps in the world." About his son, he said that he "acts vigorously, with great talent and great commitment, in the global public relations struggle for the State of Israel." Netanyahu wrote about Magal and Segal: "I do not understand their obsession with hurting them again and again. Haven't Sarah and Yair been slandered enough that Yinon and Amit feel the need to join the venomous choir of evil against them?"