After the ad was posted to Barak’s Twitter, his followers focused a screen shot on the card and displayed its numbers for the world to see. A spokesman for the multimillionaire politician said he canceled the Visa card but was not particularly troubled by the incident.אז אהוד ברק פרסם את הכרטיס אשראי שלו לעיני כל. Happy prime day pic.twitter.com/TojwjgMauu
— Plummy (@le_lummy) July 15, 2019
“The time has come for Israel to have a prime minister with a credit card,” Barak’s Israel Democratic Party said in an official statement. Despite reports that he does not have a credit card, Netanyahu publicly paid for his coffee at Jerusalem’s Duvshanit coffee shop on Facebook Live last week.Netanyahu has repeatedly been accused of relying on donations from millionaire friends for large expenses, including asking for them to cover the legal costs of his ongoing corruption cases. Barak tweeted a picture of Netanyahu with millionaire Arnon Milchan under the headline “Netanyahu’s credit card.” Netanyahu’s spokesman Yonatan Urich responded on Twitter: “If Ehud Barak cannot even protect his account, how can he protect the country?קוסם אמיתי יש רק אחד pic.twitter.com/rtjawVtHFu
— אהוד ברק (@barak_ehud) July 16, 2019