Question: Facts: - president: shimon peres reuven rivlin ezer weizman - birth name: benjamin netanyahu - party: likud - predecessor: ehud peretz silvan shalom olmert shimon peres avigdor lieberman shimon peres amir - otherparty: likud beiteinu -lrb- 2012 -- 2014 -rrb- - birth date: 21 october 1949 - branch: israel tsahal 23px israeli defense forces - parents: prof. benzion netanyahu tzila segal - profession: writer management consultant marketing executive politician - order: 9th - spouse: miriam -lrb- 1981 -- 1984 -rrb- sara ben-artzi -lrb- 1991 -- weizmann present -rrb- -lrb- 1972 -- 1978 -rrb- fleur cates - office: prime of the opposition minister of finance minister of israel minister of foreign affairs leader - term end: 6 2003 31 march 2009 9 august 2005 july 1999 11 november 2013 acting 28 february - serviceyears: 1967 -- 1973 - name: benjamin netanyahu - website: -lsb- http://www.netanyahu.org.il/en/ official website -rsb- - birth place: tel aviv , israel - signature: benjamin netanyahu signature.svg - successor: ehud olmert barak avigdor lieberman silvan shalom tzipi livni ehud - primeminister: ariel sharon ehud olmert ariel sharon - nationality: israeli - alma mater: massachusetts harvard university institute of technology -lrb- s.b. , s.m. -rrb- - battles: war of attrition yom kippur war - allegiance: israel 23px - children: noa avner yair - term start: 31 6 november 2002 28 march 2006 28 february 2003 march 2009 18 june 1996 18 december 2012 - image: benjamin_netanyahu_2012 . jpg - religion: secular judaism - rank: 23px Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of benjamin netanyahu .
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benjamin '' bibi '' netanyahu -lrb- ; born 21 october 1949 -rrb- is the current prime minister of israel .he also currently serves as a member of the knesset and chairman of the likud party .born in tel aviv to secular jewish parents , netanyahu is the first israeli prime minister born in israel after the establishment of the state .netanyahu joined the israel defense forces shortly after the six-day war in 1967 and became a team leader in the sayeret matkal special forces unit .he took part in many missions , including operation inferno -lrb- 1968 -rrb- , operation gift -lrb- 1968 -rrb- and operation isotope -lrb- 1972 -rrb- , during which he was shot in the shoulder .he 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 .he achieved the rank of captain before being discharged .after graduating from mit with sb and sm degrees , he was recruited as an economic consultant for the boston consulting group .he returned to israel in 1978 to found the yonatan netanyahu anti-terror institute , named after his brother yonatan netanyahu , who died leading operation entebbe .netanyahu served as the israeli ambassador to the united nations from 1984 to 1988 .netanyahu became the leader of likud in 1993 .netanyahu won the 1996 elections , becoming israel 's youngest ever prime minister , serving his first term from june 1996 to july 1999 .he moved from the political arena to the private sector after being defeated in the 1999 election for prime minister by ehud barak .netanyahu returned to politics in 2002 as foreign affairs minister -lrb- 2002 -- 03 -rrb- and finance minister -lrb- 2003 -- 05 -rrb- in ariel sharon 's governments , but he departed the government over disagreements regarding the gaza disengagement plan .as minister of finance , netanyahu engaged in a major reform of the israeli economy , which was credited by commentators as having...