Netanyahu's tweeter-in-chief hands in resignation

Sani Sanilevich, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's special adviser on technological and Internet affairs, has earned the title of the new administration's first resignation, after informing Netanyahu at the beginning of the week that he would be stepping down.

Sanilevich, who has accompanied Netanyahu for the past three years, expressed frustration at being unable to advance his projects amid what he found to be the chaos of the new government, and finding he could not schedule even a single short meeting with the prime minister.

The Internet adviser joins Eliezer Sandberg in leaving the Netanyahu government behind.

Even before the prime minister took office Sandberg, a former minister, announced he was reneging on his pledge to become government secretary.

Netanyahu has struggled to fill key positions in his new administration, moving into the Prime Minister's Office without a director-general or chief of staff, and filling the government secretary position with attorney Zvi Hauser at the last minute.

The director-general post was recently filled by Eyal Gabbai, himself a newcomer to the Prime Minister's Office.

The Prime Minister's Office is essentially run by bureau chief Natan Eshel. Eshel, formerly the deputy director of the free daily newspaper Israel Hayom, is widely viewed as being a confidant of Netanyahu's wife Sara, and close to the new government.