Israeli diplomats recalled over tweets seen as critical of Netanyahu
The disciplining of the three comes amid heightened Israeli public scrutiny over the impartiality of civil servants before a March 17 election that is widely seen as a referendum on the right-wing Netanyahu, now in his third term.
Yigal Caspi, the envoy to Bern, had retweeted remarks by Israeli journalists disparaging Netanyahu's planned March 3 speech to the U.S. Congress about Iran, an event that looks likely to deepen rifts with the Obama administration.
The other two diplomats, a political officer in New Delhi and a Foreign Ministry staffer in Jerusalem, appeared to have suspended their Twitter accounts on Thursday.
Israel's NRG news site quoted them as having tweeted direct criticisms of Netanyahu.
A Foreign Ministry spokesman said the NRG report was accurate and that the three diplomats had been summoned for disciplinary hearings that could conclude with their firing.
(Writing by Dan Williams; Editing by Paul Tait)