Netanyahu (often pronounced:
net-ten-yahoo) is a surname, and may refer to the following members of the Netanyahu family in Israel.
First generation:
- Benzion Netanyahu
Benzion Netanyahu is an Israeli historian and Zionist activist. He is one of the leaders of the Zionist Movement in the United States. He was secretary to the father of Revisionist Zionism, Ze'ev Jabotinsky, and a leader of the Zionist Movement in the United States...
(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 Netanyahu
Elisha Netanyahu was an Israeli mathematician specializing in complex analysis and function theory. 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 Netanyahu
Shoshana Netanyahu is an Israeli lawyer and judge, a former justice at the Supreme Court of Israel. She is a widow of mathematician Elisha Netanyahu , the uncle of Benjamin Netanyahu, current Prime Minister of Israel....
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Netanyahu (often pronounced:
net-ten-yahoo) is a surname, and may refer to the following members of the Netanyahu family in Israel.
First generation:
- Benzion Netanyahu
Benzion Netanyahu is an Israeli historian and Zionist activist. He is one of the leaders of the Zionist Movement in the United States. He was secretary to the father of Revisionist Zionism, Ze'ev Jabotinsky, and a leader of the Zionist Movement in the United States...
(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 Netanyahu
Elisha Netanyahu was an Israeli mathematician specializing in complex analysis and function theory. 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 Netanyahu
Shoshana Netanyahu is an Israeli lawyer and judge, a former justice at the Supreme Court of Israel. She is a widow of mathematician Elisha Netanyahu , the uncle of Benjamin Netanyahu, current Prime Minister of Israel....
(b. 1923), former Israel Supreme Court justice, wife of Eliasha
Second generation (sons of Benzion Netanyahu):
- Yonatan Netanyahu (1946–1976), Israeli war hero
- Benjamin Netanyahu
Benjamin "Bibi" Netanyahu is the current Prime Minister of Israel. He previously held the same position from June 1996 to July 1999 and is currently the Chairman of the Likud Party....
(born 1949), Prime Minister of Israel 1996–1999, and again from March 31, 2009
- Iddo Netanyahu
Iddo Netanyahu is a radiologist, author, playwright, the youngest brother of Benjamin Netanyahu who is the current Prime Minister of Israel and previously held that office from 1996-1999 and Yonatan Netanyahu, an Israeli war hero....
(born 1952), Israeli radiologist, author, and playwright