'Traitor, stinking Russian': Abused by PM's backers, Elkin's wife goes to police | TOI - Apr. 20, 2021 |

The wife of New Hope MK Ze'ev Elkin has filed a police complaint against supporters of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu who verbally attacked her outside the family's Jerusalem home.

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"Your husband has betrayed Israel. You have betrayed Israel," Ben-Yehuda continued, later adding that she "goes with Arabs" and "collaborates with Al Jazeera," in reference to the international Arabic news channel. He also called her a "Russian traitor."

Ze'ev Elkin, a former Likud cabinet minister who was considered a close confidant of Netanyahu, left to join the New Hope party ahead of the March 2021 elections, blasting the prime minister for his conduct and accusing him of putting his personal considerations above the country best interests.