Anger over Yair Netanyahu's scandal

Deputy Israeli Religious Affairs Minister Eli Ben-Dahan has denounced the love affair between Yair Netanyahu and his Norwegian girlfriend Sandra Leikanger Friday, calling the scandal inappropriate. 

When asked for his opinion on army radio, the Minister responded, "I don't usually get involved in people's private lives, especially not marital issues. But I do think the relationship is inappropriate; she should convert if the relationship is to continue." 

Ben-Dahan slammed the media as well, saying it is not fitting for the Israeli media to harp on about the issue. 

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has repeatedly denied the relationship between the two since the news surfaced last week.

Members of the Israeoli parliaent and Jewish identity organizations demanded that Netanyahu do something about the matter, saying that it was unseemly for the son of the leader of the Jewish state to be dating a non-Jewish girl.

Bentzi Gopshtain, director of a Jewish education group fighting assimilation in Israel, published a letter to Netanyahu on his Facebook page Sunday. There he called on Netanyahu "to prevent this relationship."

Addressing the prime minister, Gopshtain wrote "the consequences of your son's actions, despite his being a private individual, are far-reaching, both in terms of your family personally and in more national terms as well."