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Sep 25, 2020 · He then later married his Christian lover, Fleur Cates, who agreed to convert to Judaism. When his first child, Noa Netanyahu was born, he did not go to see her in the hospital.
Benjamin and Fleur Netanyahu from the Israeli Embassy with Sen. Ted Kennedy. Get premium, high resolution news photos at Getty Images
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Netanyahu was born on October 21, 1949, in Tel Aviv, grew up in Jerusalem, and spent his adolescent years in the United States, where his father Benzion– a noted historian – taught Jewish history in Philadelphia. In 1967, at the age of 18, Netanyahu returned to Israel to fulfill his military obligation in the Israel Defense Forces and volunteered f...
After returning to Israel in 1988, Netanyahu entered the political arena and was elected a Member of the Knesset from the Likud party and was appointed Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs. He served in this position for four years, which were marked by the First Intifada, the 1991 Gulf War, and the Madrid Peace Conference. On March 25, 1993, Netanya...
During Netanyahu’s second term as prime minister, relations with the United States became frayed due to the lack of chemistry and policy differences with President Barack Obama. At the outset of his term, Obama made a number of decisions that upset Israel’s leaders, notably his decision to give a speech in Cairo without also visiting Israel, and de...
Netanyahu’s comments infuriated the Obama administration, prompting Netanyahu to apologize for the remark about Arab voters and backpedal on his comments regarding a Palestinian state. In an interview on MSNBC, he insisted that he had not changed his policy from his 2009 speech at Bar-Ilan University, but qualified his remarks by saying he was comm...
Netanyahu’s Likud Party won the most votes, but Benny Gantz’s new Kahol Lavan Party equaled its total of 35 seats in the April 2019 election. Netanyahu’s victory was attributed to a number of factors. One is his undisputed political acumen and campaign savvy. Another was the virtual disappearance of the left in Israel as the entire population shift...
Netanyahu has been married three times. Netanyahu’s first marriage was to Miriam Weizmann, whom he met in Israel. The couple had one daughter, Noa (born April 29, 1978). While Weizmann was pregnant, Netanyahu met a non-Jewish British student named Fleur Cates and began an affair. His marriage ended in divorce when his wife discovered the affair. In...
Netanyahu has remained popular in Israel due in part to his tough stands against terrorism and Iran, a thriving economy, and a lack of serious opposition even as he and his wife Sara have come under investigation for a number of scandals. A report into the spending of Netanyahu prepared by State Comptroller Yosef Shapira was released on February 17...
Netanyahu has written a number of books that appeared in Hebrew and English, with some also translated into Russian, French, Arabic, Japanese and other languages, among themSelf Portrait of a Hero: From the Letters of Jonathan Netanyahu 1963-1976 (edited 1978), International Terrorism: Challenge and Response (edited 1979), Terrorism: How the West C...
Jan 9, 2019 · Subsequently her father re-married to his second wife, Fleur Cates, a marriage that lasted from 1981-1984 followed by another divorce. He and his present third wife, Sara Ben-Artzi married in 1991 ...
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Mar 20, 2024 · Fleur Cates Early life. Fleur was born in England. She earned a B.A. from Cambridge University in England and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School in Boston, Massachusetts. Fleur Cates Photo Fleur’s Reason for Divorcing with Benjamin Netanyahu. In 1984, Cates divorced Netanyahu, suspecting the presence of other individuals. This is why ...
In 1978, while Weizmann was pregnant, Netanyahu met a non-Jewish British student named Fleur Cates at the university library, and began an affair. His marriage ended in divorce soon after Miriam discovered the affair. [453]
