oatmealSara #Netanyahu has long been mocked for her appearance, a cruelty that has followed her through decades of public life. In the great tradition of autocratic regimes built around a cult of personality, the state found a simple solution.
The Seventh Eye site has found that the Government Press Office (GPO) has been quietly retouching official photographs of Sara for nearly three years. The earliest confirmed case dates to June 2023, but altered images have since appeared across a wide range of official communications, meetings with foreign leaders, and public ceremonies. By 2025 the practice had become standard procedure, with doctored photographs routinely credited to the Prime Minister’s Office as though they were unaltered.
This practice is understood and more than silly vanity: a press office that manipulates images is a press office that cannot be trusted, and the pattern fits a broader project of state-managed reality.
