Prime Minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu has been married three times and has 3 children. Let’s meet his family; wife Sarah Ben-Artzi, daughter, and sons.
Benjamin Netanyahu is Israel’s longest-serving leader as he has served multiple terms stretching over 15 years in office.
The politician currently serving as the prime minister of Israel since December 2022, having previously held the office from 1996 to 1999 and again from 2009 to 2021.
On July 15, 2023, news broke that Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been rushed to a hospital after feeling unwell. The 73-year-old reportedly complained of chest pains before fainting at his home in Caesarea.
A few hours after, The Guardian reports he was thought to be suffering from dehydration and underwent medical tests in a hospital near Tel Aviv but he doing fine now.
Away From that, many are curious to know more about his personal life. One thing is, he is in his third marriage and has children. So, read on for more about his family; wife, and kids.
Who is Benjamin Netanyahu married to?
Israeli politician and the chairman of the Likud party, Benjamin Netanyahu has married three times. Currently, he is married to Sara Netanyahu, an educational and career psychologist who was a former reporter.
Prior to Sarah, Benjamin was married to his first wife Miriam Haran in 1972. Ben and Miriam met in Israel. They lived together, in an apartment in Jerusalem, where Netanyahu was based during his military service. They later moved to the United States where they studied at MIT. While she was pregnant for him, he was having an affair with another woman who would become his second wife. In 1978, Miriam divorced him.
The woman Benjamin was cheating on his first wife with was Fleur Cates, his second wife. In 1981, Netanyahu married Cates, and she converted to Judaism. After moving with Netanyahu to Israel, Cates sued for divorce in 1988.
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Who is Sarah Netanyahu?
Sarah Netanyahu is an Israeli educational psychologist best known as the third and current wife of Benjamin Netanyahu.
Sara (whose real name is Sara Ben-Artzi) was born on 5 November 1958, in Kiryat Tiv’on, Israel to Shmuel Ben-Artzi, and Hava Ben-Artzi. This puts her current age at 64.
Shmuel Ben-Artzi, her father, was an Israeli Jewish educator, author, poet, and biblical scholar who was born in Poland and passed away in 2011 at the age of 96.
Chava, her mother, was a sixth-generation native of Jerusalem. Her three brothers, Matanya Ben-Artzi, a professor of mathematics, Hagai Ben-Artzi, a professor of Bible and Jewish thought, and Amatzia Ben-Artzi, an entrepreneur in technology, are all champions of the Israel Bible Contest.
She was an exceptional student at Greenberg High School in Kiryat Tiv’on.
Just like her husband, Sarah was previously married and divorced before even meeting her politician husband. In 1980, Sara wed Doron Neuberger. In 1987, the couple got divorced.
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What does Sara Netanyahu do for a living?
Sarah is the spouse of the Prime Minister of Israel holding the role for the third time.
She was a reporter for the weekly Israeli teen publication Maariv LaNoar. She worked as a psycho-technical assessor for the Military Intelligence Directorate’s Department of Behavioral Sciences in the Israel Defense Forces (“Aman”).
At Tel Aviv University, Netanyahu earned a BA in psychology in 1984, and she earned a master’s degree at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1996.
At the Dr. Erika Landau-led Institute for Promoting Youth Creativity and Excellence and a Ministry of Labor rehabilitation facility, Netanyahu served as a psycho-technical evaluator of gifted children. She was a flight attendant for El Al as well.
As the Premier’s consort, Netanyahu oversaw Tza’ad Kadima for kids with cerebral palsy and Yad b’Yad, an organization that helps abused children.
She started working as an educational psychologist in the Jerusalem Municipality’s psychological service in 2001.
She helps children from distressed families and provides psychological assessments and treatment for school-aged children.
Sara Netanyahu has been a subject of controversies in the past.
The media has covered Sara Netanyahu extensively, frequently in a derogatory manner and with an emphasis on strained relationships.
She prevailed in libel suits against Schocken Publishers for falsely defaming her and the local newspaper Kol Ha’ir in 2002 after two untrue reports about her appeared in the paper’s gossip column.
She spent a significant amount of money on luxuries while visiting London with her husband for a public diplomacy campaign during the 2006 Lebanon War, according to a 2008 report by Channel 10
In response, Netanyahu sued the channel for libel. Her husband was informed by the Knesset’s Ethics Committee that her trip had not been approved.
The Netanyahu family housekeeper filed a lawsuit against Sara Netanyahu in a labor court in January 2010 alleging wage withholding, unfair working conditions, and verbal abuse.
As of March 2014, Netanyahu was being sued for alleged abuse by a different caregiver and former family bodyguard.
Meni Naftali, who claimed that Sara Netanyahu had created a hostile work environment, was granted NIS 170,000 in damages by the Jerusalem Labor Court in February 2016. She then appealed, but it was denied by the National Labor Court.
When the Prime Minister’s Office already had a cook on staff, reports surfaced in 2015 claiming she had ordered catered meals and charged the government nearly $100,000 for the costs.
In 2016, the police recommended charging her. On September 8, 2017, Avichai Mandelblit, Israel’s attorney general, declared that Netanyahu would be charged with improperly ordering meals at the state’s expense.
The pre-indictment hearing was held on January 17, 2018. Mandelblit met with Netanyahu’s attorneys, breaking with tradition by declining to attend.
The trial date was set for July 19 after attempts to reach a plea agreement failed. The meals were allegedly ordered by an assistant for visiting dignitaries, according to Netanyahu’s legal team.
Who are Benjamin Netanyahu’s children?
Benjamin Netanyahu is a father of three children; a daughter and two sons. The names of all of his kids are Noa Netanyahu-Roth, Yair Netanyahu, and Avner Netanyahu.
He shares his first child, daughter Noa with his first wife, Miriam Weizmann, whom they married for 6 years. Their daughter was born on 29 April 1978 and is 45 years old as of today.
With his second wife Fleur Cates, they had no children in their 3 years of marriage.
In his over 30 years of marriage to his current wife, Sarah, they share two sons; Yair (born 26 July 1991) and Avner (born 10 October 1994).
Benjamin and Sarah’s first child Yair, 32, is a former soldier in the IDF Spokesperson’s Unit, and their second son Avner, 28, is a national Bible champion and winner of the National Bible Quiz for Youth in Kiryat Shmona and former soldier in the IDF Combat Intelligence Collection Corps.
Away from his busy schedule, he is always home with his family.
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