Iddo Netanyahu

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Iddo Netanyahu

Iddo Netanyahu (born 1952) is a radiologist

Radiology

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and writer

Writer

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, and the youngest brother of Benjamin Netanyahu

Benjamin Netanyahu

Benjamin "Bibi" Netanyahu is the new Prime Minister-Designate of Israel. He is Chairman of the conservative Likud Party and was previously the 9th Prime Minister of Israel from June 1996 to July 1999....
, Prime Minister of Israel

Prime Minister of Israel

The Prime Minister of Israel is the head of the Israeli government and is the most powerful political officer in Israel . He or she wields executive power in the country, and has an official residence in Jerusalem....
from 1996 to 1999.

Netanyahu was born in Jerusalem

Jerusalem

Jerusalem is the capital of Israel and its List of Israeli cities in both population and area, with a population of 747,600 residents over an area of if Positions on Jerusalem East Jerusalem is included....
, Israel

Israel

Israel officially the State of Israel , is a country in the Middle East located on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea. It borders Lebanon in the north, Syria in the northeast, Jordan in the east, and Egypt on the southwest, and contains geographically diverse features within its relatively small area....
, the yougest of three brothers. His eldest brother Yonatan Netanyahu was killed leading the Operation Entebbe

Operation Entebbe

Operation Entebbe, also known as the Entebbe Raid or Operation Thunderbolt, was a Counterterrorism hostage-rescue mission carried out by the Israel Defense Forces at Entebbe Airport in Uganda on the night of 3 July and early morning of 4 July 1976....
hostage rescue mission in 1976 and is considered a war hero.

Netanyahu spent part of his childhood in the United States. He left studies at Cornell University

Cornell University

Cornell University located in Ithaca, New York, USA, is a private university with four Statutory college. Its two medical campuses are in New York City and Education City, Qatar....
in 1973 to fight for Israel in the Yom Kippur War

Yom Kippur War

The Yom Kippur War, Ramadan War or October War , also known as the 1973 Arab-Israeli War and the Fourth Arab-Israeli War, was fought from October 6 to October 26, 1973 by a coalition of Arab states led by Egypt and Syria against Israel....
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Iddo Netanyahu (born 1952) is a radiologist

Radiology

Radiology is the branch or speciality of medicine that deals with the study and application of imaging technology like x-ray and radiation to diagnosing and treating disease....
and writer

Writer

Benjamin Netanyahu

Prime Minister of Israel

Jerusalem

Israel

Operation Entebbe

Cornell University

Yom Kippur War

Sayeret Matkal

Sayeret Matkal is the main special forces unit of the Israeli Defence Force . Its main roles are counter-terrorism, deep reconnaissance and military intelligence, but the unit is first and foremost a field intelligence-gathering unit, used to obtain strategic intelligence behind enemy lines....
, Israel's special forces

Special forces

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unit, as did both his brothers.

He has an MD

Doctor of Medicine

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from Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Hebrew University of Jerusalem

The Hebrew University of Jerusalem is Israel's oldest university.The First Board of Governors included Albert Einstein, Sigmund Freud, Martin Buber, and Chaim Weizmann....
School of Medicine and did post-doctoral training at Georgetown University Hospital

Georgetown University Hospital

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, Washington, D.C.

Washington, D.C.

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, and Mount Sinai Medical Center, New York City

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. He works as both a radiologist and a writer, writing books and plays. He began writing while at Hebrew University. His play A Happy Ending has been produced with success in Italy for the European Memorial Day 2008.

Bibliography

The Rescuers - published in Hebrew, a collection of short stories
Yoni's Last Battle: The Rescue at Entebbe, 1976 (2002) - Later re-released as Entebbe: A Defining Moment On The War On Terrorism - The Jonathan Netanyahu Story, published in Hebrew, English and Russian
Itamar K. - published in Hebrew and Russian, a novel about music and life, ironic and poetic.
Sayeret Matkal at Entebbe - published in Hebrew, documents and interviews about the raid