Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu Uses Public Funds for Excessive Expenditure

Benjamin Netanyahu's financials have gone public, throwing the curtain back on taxpayer funds that Israeli's Prime Minister has been spending on his extravagant lifestyle.

While his government scrambles to deal with an enormous budget deficit, monetary information released by a civil liberties group has revealed that Netanyahu's expenditure has gone up by almost 80% since he was elected into office in 2009.

He has spent about $905,000 in the last year on his three homes in Jerusalem and the coastal area of Caesarea, catering, housekeeping, cleaning, furniture and clothing, according to USA Today.

The group released his monetary information after a TV station reported that the Prime Minister spent $127,000 in public money to pay for special sleeping quarters on a recent trip to London.

The Prime Minister already bears the image of a socialite who loves living lavishly and is out of touch with the desires and needs of the general public.

Netanyahu is never without an entourage of hairstylists, makeup artists and nail technicians. According to political reporter Shimon Shiffer, who saw the Prime Minister on a flight, he was flanked by two young men holding large bags.

"For a moment, under the influence of movies I'd seen about things that can happen in the American president's plane, I thought that it might be the suitcase containing the codes to operate the nuclear weapons that Israel allegedly possesses," he wrote for Israeli paper the Yediot Ahronot daily. "A brief investigation turned up slightly less heroic results: the two men were hairdressers who had been flown...to make sure his hair was property styled and brushed."

Netanyahu was also forced to give up his favorite ice cream from a parlor in Jerusalem, after an Israeli newspaper revealed that his office was spending almost $2,700 a year on the sweets.

Meanwhile, Israel has passed a new budget Monday that will cut family subsidies and medical benefits. Incomes, sales and real estate taxes, along with cigarettes, alcohol and luxury good prices are set to rise.