page_title: Benjamin Netanyahu
section_title: Family
hierarchical_section_title: Benjamin Netanyahu / Personal life / Family
caption_attribution_description: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife Sara at Mt. Herzl Military Cemetery in Jerusalem for the memorial service held for Yoni Netanyahu, the prime minister's brother, who rescued hostages in Entebbe, Uganda. ראש הממשלה, בנימין נתניהו ואישתו שרה בטקס האזכרה לנופלים במבצע אנטבה ובניהם אחיו של ראש הממשלה, יוני נתניהו
context_page_description: Benjamin Netanyahu is an Israeli politician serving as Prime Minister of Israel since 2009, and previously from 1996 to 1999. Netanyahu is also the Chairman of the Likud – National Liberal Movement. He is the longest-serving Prime Minister in Israeli history and the first to be born in Israel after the establishment of the state.
  Born in Tel Aviv to secular Jewish parents, Netanyahu was raised in both Jerusalem and the Philadelphia area of the United States. He returned to Israel immediately upon graduating high school in 1967 to join the Israel Defense Forces shortly after the Six-Day War. Netanyahu became a team leader in the Sayeret Matkal special forces unit and took part in many missions, including Operation Gift and Operation Isotope, during which he was shot in the shoulder. Netanyahu fought on the front lines in the War of Attrition and the Yom Kippur War in 1973, taking part in special forces raids along the Suez Canal and then leading a commando assault deep into Syrian territory. Netanyahu achieved the rank of captain before being discharged.
caption: Benjamin Netanyahu at the grave of his brother Yoni Netanyahu, who was killed leading a counter-terrorist operation in 1976
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