Yoni netanyahu biography of albert
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When he was asked by a student in 2018, what is the most important subject to study for a political career, Benjamin Netanyahu replied that there were three answers: ‘History, history and more history’.
In writing his own history during the Bennett-Lapid interregnum, dictated when he was out of office, Netanyahu does not appear to have taken his own advice. Netanyahu’s autobiography is more Hollywood than history. The book is ‘Bibi-lite’, stripped of ideology and inconvenient facts — and made palatable for a diaspora audience. It is a stream of consciousness rather than a factual, informed life story.
The book opens heroically with Netanyahu’s time in the Sayeret Matkal — Israel’s remarkable commando force that has defended Israelis and Jews against lethal forces. He is rightly proud of his service and his participation in the storming of the Sabena flight at Lod airport in 1972.
From this background flows the attack on Entebbe airport and the killing of the commander of Operation Thunderbolt whose force rescued Jewish hostages, passengers on a hijacked Air France Airbus 300. The commander was, of course, Yonatan Netanyahu — Netanyahu’s older brother whom he idolised in all respects. Netanyahu writes: ‘He was our North Star, g
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Iddo Netanyahu
Israeli physician, author and playwright (born 1952)
Iddo Netanyahu (Hebrew: עדו נתניהו; born July 24, 1952) is an Israeli physician, author, and playwright. He is the younger brother of Benjamin Netanyahu, the Prime Minister of Israel, and Yonatan Netanyahu, a highly decorated soldier who was killed leading the Entebbe raid, a hostage rescue mission in 1976.
Biography
[edit]Iddo Netanyahu was born in Jerusalem, the son of Cela (née Segal; 1912–2000) and professor Benzion Netanyahu (1910–2012), and spent part of his childhood in the United States living in Cheltenham Township, Pennsylvania where he attended elementary and middle school.[1] His family later returned to Israel, and he attended high school in Jerusalem. After finishing high school, Netanyahu returned to the United States to study at his father's former workplace Cornell University, but in 1973 he put a hold on his studies to fight for Israel in the Yom Kippur War.[2]
Netanyahu served in Sayeret Matkal from 1970 to 1973, Israel's top special forces unit, as did both his brothers. He later returned to Cornell University and finished his undergraduate degree. He went back to Israel and earned an M.D. from Hebrew University of Jerusalem School of Medicine and did post-do