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Ruth Bar breaks silence on her 1993 affair with Netanyahu, his early political rise - interview

· By BEN CASPIT
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Dr. Ruth Bar is the most famous anonymous woman you have never heard of. On January 14, 1993, Benjamin Netanyahu, sweating and somber, burst into the studio of Israel's Channel 1 television to confess live on air that he had conducted an extramarital affair with the strategic adviser working for him in the race for …

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