Benjamin Netanyahu Fast Facts

Photos: Benjamin Netanyahu's life in pictures
Benjamin Netanyahu chairs a Cabinet meeting in Jerusalem in October 2019.
Hide Caption
1 of 62

Photos: Benjamin Netanyahu's life in pictures
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.
Hide Caption
2 of 62

Photos: Benjamin Netanyahu's life in pictures
Netanyahu, right, poses with a friend in the Judean Desert in 1968.
Hide Caption
3 of 62

Photos: Benjamin Netanyahu's life in pictures
Netanyahu serves in the Sayeret Matkal, an elite commando unit of the Israeli army, in 1971. He spent five years in the unit.
Hide Caption
4 of 62

Photos: Benjamin Netanyahu's life in pictures
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.
Hide Caption
5 of 62

Photos: Benjamin Netanyahu's life in pictures
Netanyahu and his first wife, Miriam, in 1980.
Hide Caption
6 of 62

Photos: Benjamin Netanyahu's life in pictures
Netanyahu and his daughter, Noa, in 1980. Netanyahu has three children in all.
Hide Caption
7 of 62