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Article: Prime Minister's cigar budget snuffed out
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- Jerusalem Post
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- April 14, 1998
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MICHAL YUDELMAN and JAY BUSHINSKY
Jerusalem Post
04-14-1998
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu will no longer light up $30 dollar cigars in his office, nor offer them to his guests. Following a Yediot Aharonot article on Netanyahu's expensive habit, funded by the taxpayer, the Prime Minister's Office announced it was snuffing out the cigar budget and would seek more modest means of refreshment.
The report, which raised a storm of criticism, said the state had been buying Davidoff RR cigars for the prime minister, his close aides and his guests at a monthly budget of close to NIS 12,000, reaching NIS 140,000 a year.
Channel 2 News last night reported that the Prime Minister's Office ...