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Benjamin Netanyahu (also Binyamin, and in Israel commonly Bibi) ( Hebrew: בנימין נתניהו) (born October 21, 1949, Tel Aviv) was the 9th Prime Minister of Israel. A member of the conservative Likud party, he was Prime Minister from April 1996 to May 1999.
Benjamin was born to Zila and Ben-Zion Netanyahu. His father, Ben-Zion, is a professor of Jewish History and a former editor of the Hebrew Encyclopedia . His older brother Yonatan is a war hero who was killed during Operation Entebbe in 1976. His younger brother Iddo is a radiologist and writer. All three brothers served in the Sayeret Matkal.
Netanyahu was married twice before, and has a daughter, Noa, from his first marriage. He is married to his third wife, Sarah, and has two children. He holds a BSc in Architecture from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a MSc in Management from the MIT Sloan School of ManagementMission To develop principled, innovative leaders who improve the world and to generate ideas that advance management practice. Established 1914 Official name Alfred P. Sloan School of Management University Massachusetts Institute of Technology School typ, and has studied political science at Harvard and MIT.
Netanyahu was elected in 1996 after a wave of Palestinian suicide attacks on Israeli civilians. Shimon PeresShimon Peres (born August 21, 1923), an Israeli politician, is the head of the Israeli Labour Party and served as 8th Prime Minister of Israel from 1984-1986 and 1995-1996 and Israeli Minister of Foreign Affairs from 2001-2002. Early life Shimon Peres (or, who was favored in the polls, could not stop the terror attacks and public faith in him decreased rapidly. On March 3 and 4 1996, Palestinian terrorists carried out two lethal suicide bombingsA suicide bombing is a bomb attack on people or property, committed by a person who knows the explosion will cause his or her own death (see suicide). Historically the term has been used by Western media as far back as World War II in reference to the act in which 32 Israeli citizens were killed. Those two attacks were the main catalyst in the downfall of Peres, who eventually lost the election due to his inability to stop terrorism against Israelis. Unlike Peres, Netanyahu did not trust Yasser ArafatYasser Arafat ( Arabic: Ysir `Araft) ( August 4 or August 24, 1929 November 11, 2004), born Muhammad Abd al-Rahman ar-Rauf al-Qudwah al-Husayni and also known as Abu Ammar was co-founder and Chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) (since 1's good will and conditioned any progress at the peace process on the Palestinian Authority fulfilling their obligations - mainly fighting terrorism. His campaign slogan was "Netanyahu - making a safe Peace".
As Prime Minister he negotiated with Yasser ArafatYasser Arafat ( Arabic: Ysir `Araft) ( August 4 or August 24, 1929 November 11, 2004), born Muhammad Abd al-Rahman ar-Rauf al-Qudwah al-Husayni and also known as Abu Ammar was co-founder and Chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) (since 1 in the form of the Wye accords , but many claimed he tried to stall any progress. Netanyahu's approach to the peace negotiations was popular:
This approach seemed to work; unlike his predecessor's and successor's reigns, Netanyahu's reign was relatively quiet with only few Palestinian suicide bombings within Israel. In 1996, Netanyahu and Jerusalem's mayor Ehud Olmert decided to open an exit for the Western Wall tunnel. This sparked three days of riots by Palestinians, resulting in about dozen Israeli and hundred Palestinians killed.
Despite his progress against terrorism, Netanyahu was hated by most of the elites and the media who are identified with the left-wing in Israel. After a long chain of scandals (including gossip over his wife) and an investigation opened against him on charges of corruption, Netanyahu lost favor with the Israeli public.
After being defeated by Ehud Barak in the 1999 Israeli general elections, Netanyahu temporarily retired from politics.