Israel's Netanyahu freezes ice cream expenditures

Editor’s note: Every corruption has to start somewhere. Lucius Verenus, Schoolmaster, ProbateSharks.com   Feb 17, 11:07 AM EST Israel's Netanyahu freezes ice cream expenditures

Offbeat Video Buy AP Photo Reprints JERUSALEM (AP) -- Following an Israeli newspaper's scoop, the country's prime minister has "frozen" his annual ice cream budget. Benjamin Netanyahu's office on Sunday said once he was made aware of the state-financed contract issued to purchase ice cream from his favorite Jerusalem parlor he ordered it stopped immediately. Netanyahu called the contract "excessive and unacceptable." The Israel economic publication "Calcalist" published a list of items on the prime minister's annual expense budget, including $2,700 for ice cream. Following the publication, Israelis flocked to the "Metudela" ice cream shop near the prime minister's residence to check out his alleged favorite flavors: pistachio and vanilla. The prime minister's office said the cost included hosting high-ranking officials at the official residence. Still, it offered a rare peek into the personal life of the private Netanyahu.

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