After PM Netanyahu's private dinner the other day with Sheldon Adelson, in which they were spotted eating in a treif restaurant, people were shocked and upset.
As if Netanyahu normally is known for keeping kosher. Some politicians you hear that about - they keep a kosher home, only eat kosher outside, etc. Netanyahu? I never heard it about him. Ok. He ate, they got upset. Life goes on.
Now it turns out that later the same day Netanyahu ate in another treif restaurant in a more official capacity, with Ambassador Ron Dermer and his wife, and with his Chief of Staff Ari Harow, and others.
Some people are outraged. Once can be written off as a mistake, maybe bad judgment. But twice?
I look at it a bit differently. How much can the guy eat? two fancy restaurants in one day???
And the second time was with religious people - what did Ron Dermer and Ari Harow eat? Netanyahu eating treif does not shock me, Dermer eating treif would.
I would give them the benefit of the doubt and suggest they were not eating shrimp or lobster or whatever else they serve in these upscale treif places. Maybe they had salad (and were obviously makpid to get it without onion), or maybe some sort of kosher fish. Who knows - maybe Netanyahu did as well, but then why go to such a treif restaurant just to eat the "less problematic" foods?
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