Culture and Sport Minister Limor Livnat spoke out on Wednesday against the attacks on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's wife Sara Netanyahu over the dress she wore to the Knesset swearing-in ceremony on Tuesday. Israel's first lady wore a black lace, partially see-through dress to the ceremony, and was quickly dressed down by the media. On one entertainment news program, a fashion critic described Sara Netanyahu's dress as "cheap" and "inappropriate." "Once again, with predictable regularity, there is a smear campaign against Sara Netanyahu, and the excuse this time is her dress. A dress? How chauvinist, shallow and base," Livnat wrote on her Facebook page. "This morning every woman, irrespective of her party affiliation or personal taste in clothes, should feel deeply insulted. She should be angry about this display of sexist slander and the ugly campaign of incitement that several media outlets chose to conduct on Tuesday night." The ultra-Orthodox Shas party also stepped into the fray, with MK Aryeh Deri saying that the discussion of Sara Netanyahus dress was "a disgusting and wicked preoccupation. It is prying and humiliating and has exceeded all boundaries. I am embarrassed that cheap gossip and public shaming are what make up our priorities." In Haaretz, Allison Kaplan Sommer wrote: "Like many of the women at the 19th Knesset swearing-in ceremony, the first lady wore black, but unlike the rest, she wore a black dress that was both tight and transparent, with transparent lace at her arms, neck, and most unfortunately, particularly when she sat down, her stomach. I think Sara is, overall, a perfectly acceptable-looking woman, who generally dresses in a manner appropriate to her station, if anything, erring more on the side of conservative and frumpy rather than daring and trashy."