In fact, he had studied architecture, even served as a commando: Who is Benjamin Netanyahu?

Netanyahu was born on October 21, 1949, in Tel Aviv, Israel.

Muslim grew up in Jerusalem and received his primary education there. Netanyahus are related to Lithuanian Jews. His father was a professor of Jewish history, the first editor of the Hebrew Encyclopedia, and assistant to Zeev Jabotinsky. Netanyahu's older brother Yonatan was killed during Operation Entebbe in 1976. When Netanyahu was 14, he immigrated to the United States with his family. They settled in Township, a suburb of Philadelphia. He was educated at Cheltenham High School.

Netanyahu, who lived in the state of Philadelphia between 1956-1958 and 1963-1967 in the USA, graduated from high school in 1967 and returned to Israel.

Enrolling in the Israel Security Forces, Netanyahu received combat training and became a team leader in the Sayeret Matkal forces. After many assignments here, he returned to the USA and completed his undergraduate program in architecture in 1975.

In 1977, he completed his master's degree at MIT Sloan Department of Business Administration. During this period, he changed his name to Benjamin Ben Nitai, just so the Americans could pronounce it correctly, "according to his political opponents, he lacked awareness of national identity and loyalty."

During his education, he worked at the Boston Consulting Group. After graduation, Netanyahu returned to Israel and briefly worked as a marketer for a furniture company.

Despite the short term of office of Netanyahu, who was elected prime minister for the first time between 18 June 1996 and 6 July 1999, this period was quite active. After his order to reopen the wailing wall tunnel, dozens of people were killed in clashes between Palestinians and Israelis.

Later in his rule, he transferred most of the control of the city of Hebron in the West Bank to the Palestinians.

A year after this decision he made in 1997, he reached an agreement with Yasser Arafat and left 13 percent of the control of the West Bank to the Palestinian Authority.

After the Israeli Labor Party left the coalition in 2002, the foreign minister's seat became vacant, and Prime Minister Sharon appointed Netanyahu as foreign minister.

After the 2003 Israeli parliamentary elections, Sharon offered the Minister of Foreign Affairs to Silvan Shalom and the Minister of Economy to Netanyahu. Netanyahu accepted this post on the condition that he be able to make independent decisions in the ministry.

Netanyahu has succeeded in several long-standing unresolved issues, particularly the banking system.

Although Netanyahu threatened to resign from the parliament in 2004 if the Gaza plan was not put to a referendum, after a while he turned around and voted on the program in the Knesset, removing his ultimatum.

He resigned in August 2005, shortly before the Israeli cabinet approved the plan to withdraw from Gaza.

After Sharon withdrew from Likud, one of the strongest leadership candidates for Likud was Netanyahu. Taking the lead with 47 percent of the vote on December 20, 2005, Netanyahu took third place in the Knesset elections in March 2006, behind Likud Kadima and the Labor party, and served as the leader of the opposition.

In the elections of August 2007, Netanyahu was re-elected as the head of Likud and was nominated with 73 percent of the votes in the next prime ministerial elections, outstripping Danny Danon in these elections.

Netanyahu was Likud's prime ministerial candidate in the February 2009 parliamentary elections. Tzipi Livni's failure to form a coalition had led Likud in the polls, but one-third of Israeli voters were undecided.

In the actual elections, Likud became the second party with the most seats, with Livni's party beating Likud by one seat. However, as the right-wing parties won the majority, Netanyahu declared victory.

On August 14, 2009, Netanyahu gave a speech. The speech was broadcast live in both Israel and much of the Arab world. The topic of this conversation was the Middle East Peace Process. For the first time, he put forward the idea of ​​"Let there be a Palestinian state alongside Israel", and this speech was also perceived as a response to Obama's June 4 Cairo speech.

Messages were published against this idea from many countries of the world.

During the election campaign, Netanyahu was at the forefront of his harsh rhetoric, especially against Hamas.

Netanyahu argued that Israel's attacks on Gaza ended early and promised to destroy Hamas if he came to power.

In his speech at the Davos summit, Netanyahu, who also attracted attention with his harsh stance against Iran, described Iran's possession of nuclear weapons as a greater threat than the global financial crisis.

In the Palestinian issue, Netanyahu favors an economic solution rather than a two-state solution. He argued that first of all, "economic peace" should be made.

During the election campaign, Netanyahu promised to continue peace negotiations with the Palestinians and not to establish new Jewish settlements on Palestinian land, while removing extremist names from his party list.

Unexpectedly defeated in 1999, Netanyahu also withdrew from the presidency of the Likud and left the political arena. He returned as a minister in 2002 and was re-elected as the leader of his party in 2005. This led him to victory again on March 31, 2009. Returning to politics after 10 years, Netanyahu did not compromise his old policies.

November 3, 2022

Netanyahu's return journey as he prepares to be prime minister for the sixth time in Israel

When Benjamin Netanyahu, a politician who served as prime minister for 12 years in Israel, lost his power in June 2021, observers said that an era had come to an end, and his opponents said that a new one had begun.

But Netanyahu was defiantly saying, "I'll be back."

In 2019, Netanyahu was charged with bribery, fraud, and breach of trust as part of a corruption investigation.

He became the first prime minister to appear in court while in office in May 2020.

But this ongoing lawsuit did not prevent him from coming back to power.

The partial results of the election results on November 2, 2022, indicate that this is a short break for Netanyahu.

If the results are confirmed, Netanyahu, Israel's longest-serving leader, will win five elections and serve as prime minister for six terms. No prime minister in the 74-year history of Israel has such a record.