Software charge bugs Netanyahu

Jerusalem - Israel's first on-line prime minister has been bugged by a software problem. Haaretz newspaper said yesterday that Mr Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife, Sara, took - without paying - educational software partly funded by the government during a ceremony at which computers were given to needy children. A spokesman for Mr Netanyahu said the CDrom disks were given to the couple as gifts by managers of the Computer for Every Child project. But Mr Yisrael Regev, director of the Centre for Educational Technology which developed the software priced at about £600, said no gift-giving was intended in Mr Netanyahu's case.