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Netanyahu Says Strip Club Recording Of His Son Is A Media 'Shaming' Plot

"Bro, my dad got your dad a sweet deal," Yair Netanyahu, then 24, is heard telling friends amid talk of prostitution and lap dances in a secretly recorded conversation from 2015.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his son Yair visiting the Wailing Wall in Jerusalem in March 2015.

In the summer of 2015, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's son partied with friends at a Tel Aviv strip club.

What happened next has stirred up a political embarrassment for the prime minister, who is already facing a criminal investigation into suspected corruption.

In secretly recorded audio, the leader's son Yair Netanyahu, then 24, is

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