Netanyahu
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Netanyahu is a surname, and may refer to the following members of the Netanyahu family in Israel.
First generation:
Second generation (sons of Benzion Netanyahu):
First generation:
- Benzion NetanyahuBenzion NetanyahuBenzion Netanyahu is an Israeli historian and a professor emeritus at Cornell University. He is a specialist in the golden age of Jewish History in Spain, and is known for his opus, the Origins of the Inquisition in Fifteenth Century Spain...
(b. 1910), scholar of Jewish history, Zionist activist, professor emeritus of Cornell University, author of The Origins of the Inquisition in Fifteenth-Century Spain and other books - Elisha NetanyahuElisha NetanyahuElisha Netanyahu was an Israeli mathematician specializing in complex analysis. Over the course of his work at the Technion he was the Dean of the Faculty of Sciences and established the separate Department of Mathematics...
(1912–1986), Israeli mathematician at the Technion, brother of Benzion - Shoshana NetanyahuShoshana NetanyahuShoshana Netanyahu is an Israeli lawyer and judge, a former justice at the Supreme Court of Israel. She is a widow of mathematician Elisha Netanyahu , uncle of Benjamin Netanyahu, current Prime Minister of Israel.- Biography :...
(b. 1923), former Israel Supreme Court justice, wife of Elisha
Second generation (sons of Benzion Netanyahu):
- Yonatan Netanyahu (1946–1976), Israeli war hero
- Benjamin NetanyahuBenjamin NetanyahuBenjamin "Bibi" Netanyahu is the current Prime Minister of Israel. He serves also as the Chairman of the Likud Party, as a Knesset member, as the Health Minister of Israel, as the Pensioner Affairs Minister of Israel and as the Economic Strategy Minister of Israel.Netanyahu is the first and, to...
(born 1949), Prime Minister of Israel 1996–1999, and again from March 31, 2009 to present - Iddo NetanyahuIddo NetanyahuIddo Netanyahu is an Israeli physician, author and playwright. He is the younger brother of Benjamin Netanyahu who is the current Prime Minister of Israel and Yonatan Netanyahu, who was killed leading the Operation Entebbe hostage rescue mission in 1976 and is considered a war hero.Netanyahu spent...
(born 1952), Israeli radiologist, author, and playwright