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It's Thursday, February 19th, 2015 from Slate. It's the Gist. I'm Mike Peska.

At home with the Netanyahu's, Binyamin, I love saying Binyamin, and Sarah, Bibi and Shmushki.

Okay, I made up the Shmushki part, but they do call Binyamin'i Nettin Yahoo, Bibi.

So you better be careful because Shmushki's already won a couple of libel and slander

suits against the press in Israel.

At issue now is how Israel's top couple is going to deal with a report of their household

expenses that was released shortly before Israeli elections.

It reflects poorly on them in terms of, let us say, thrift.

For instance, the Netanyahu's charged $24,000 in takeout food, even though they have a chef

on premises.

And this was the thing that really jumped out at me.

They returned a bunch of plastic bottles, and they got $1,000 for the bottle deposits,

and they just pocketed that money, even though the bottles were bought by the government. Shouldn't they be giving that $1,000 for the bottle deposits and they just pocketed that money, even though the bottles

were bought by the government.

Shouldn't they be giving that thousand back to the government?

Remember on Seinfeld, another great Jewish leader, that Seinfeld?

Remember when Kramer had that ploy to take all the bottles in New York with the five-cent

deposit and drive them up to Michigan where the deposit is 10 cents?

Silly Kramer. The real score is to Michigan, where the deposit is 10 cents. Silly Kramer.

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