Suites for $50,000 and hair & makeup: The costs of Prime Minister Netanyahu's flights to the US revealed
Just before his departure for the UN General Assembly in New York, the costs of the Prime Minister's trips to the United States in the second half of 2025 are revealed
Just before Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's departure to the UN General Assembly in New York, the costs of his trips to the United States in the second half of 2025 have been revealed. The data was published Wednesday following a Freedom of Information request submitted by the Success Association through attorney Elad Man.
The data mainly refers to two trips taken by the Prime Minister with his entourage and his wife Sara: one, lasting seven days in September 2025, to New York and Washington, and the second, lasting six days at the end of December 2025, to Florida.
On a week-long trip in September, Netanyahu stayed at the Loews Regency Hotel at a cost of $41,993, more than 127,000 shekels. The cost of the flight alone was $359,281, over a million shekels, paid by the taxpayer.
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During the trip to Florida in December, Netanyahu stayed in a suite at the luxurious Four Seasons hotel, at a cost of $50,000 for five nights, about 151,600 shekels. The cost of flights for the Prime Minister and his entourage on that trip was estimated at $423,407, more than 1.2 million shekels.
The data also includes additional trips by the Prime Minister to the United States. In February, the cost of the suite alone amounted to 91,350 shekels, and laundry and food expenses for the suite were estimated at an additional 2,890 shekels.
On another trip in April, from the 5th to the 8th, the total cost of the trip was estimated at about 455,823 shekels, almost half a million shekels. For the hotel alone, for three nights, 182,700 shekels were spent. Expenses for makeup and hair for the Prime Minister on that trip were estimated at 22,000 shekels.
Another visit by the Prime Minister to Washington in July 2025 cost the taxpayer, according to the data, about 1.2 million shekels, of which hundreds of thousands of shekels are redacted in the published data, allegedly for information security reasons, and these include purchases on Amazon.