Benjamin Netanyahu Fast Facts
Photos: Benjamin Netanyahu's life in pictures
Benjamin Netanyahu chairs a Cabinet meeting in Jerusalem in October 2019.
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A 17-year-old Netanyahu, right, sits with a friend at the entrance to his family home in Jerusalem in 1967. Netanyahu spent his teenage years in the United States, going to high school in Philadelphia.
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Netanyahu, right, poses with a friend in the Judean Desert in 1968.
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Netanyahu serves in the Sayeret Matkal, an elite commando unit of the Israeli army, in 1971. He spent five years in the unit.
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Netanyahu shakes hands with Israeli President Zalman Shazar during a 1972 ceremony honoring Sayeret Matkal soldiers who freed hostages in a hijacking earlier that year.
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Netanyahu and his first wife, Miriam, in 1980.
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Netanyahu and his daughter, Noa, in 1980. Netanyahu has three children in all.
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