“Security, security!” Sara Netanyahu shouted inside the couple’s official residence in Jerusalem.

Lying on the floor, the Nepalese woman hired to care for the prime minister’s 96-year-old father-in-law was “slamming herself against the tiles and furniture in a frenzy” after Mrs.Netanyahu accused her of being negligent in looking after him.

So goes the latest chapter in one of Israel’s longest-running political soap operas: alleged confrontations between Mrs.Netanyahu and domestic staff since her husband’s first term in the 1990s. She has called those accounts “evil gossip.”

But this time, the colorful tidbits came straight from the Prime Minister’s Office after the caregiver appeared on Israeli television to criticize her employer.

A series of official press releases on Wednesday described in detail the caregiver’s “fits of rage,” conveyed witness accounts of her alleged negligence and defended Mrs.Netanyahu against the woman’s accusations that she had been verbally abusive toward her.

The dramatic events won headline play in the Israeli media but also raised questions about whether the spokesman’s department of the Prime Minister’s Office should have issued statements, under its letterhead, about a domestic matter.

By Thursday, Israel’s attorney general had stepped in, saying the family should hire a private spokesman to deal with the affair, which it did.

The new spokesman’s first announcement? The caregiver has been fired.