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Benjamin Netanyahu
(
/ˌnɛtɑːnˈjɑːhuː/
;
Hebrew
:
בִּנְיָמִין
נְתַנְיָהוּ
‎
(
help
·
info
); born 21 October 1949) is an Israeli politician who served as the ninth
prime minister of Israel
from 1996 to 1999 and from 2009 to 2021. Netanyahu currently serves as
Leader of the Opposition
and as the
chairman of the Likud – National Liberal Movement
. He served in office for a total of 15 years, making him the
longest-serving
Israeli prime minister in history. He was also the first prime minister to be
born in Israel
after its
Declaration of Independence
.Born in
Tel Aviv
to
secular Jewish
parents, Netanyahu was raised both in
Jerusalem
, and for a time in
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
in the
United States
. He returned to Israel in 1967 to join the
Israel Defense Forces
. He became a team leader in the
Sayeret Matkal
special forces and took part in several missions, achieving the
rank of captain
before being honorably discharged. After graduating from the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
, Netanyahu became an economic consultant for the
Boston Consulting Group
. He moved back to Israel in 1978 to found the
Yonatan Netanyahu Anti-Terror Institute
.From 1984–1988, Netanyahu was
Permanent Representative of Israel to the United Nations
. In 1993, he was elected as the Chairman of Likud, becoming
Leader of the Opposition
. He went on to defeat the incumbent Prime Minister
Shimon Peres
at the
1996 election
, and was appointed as Israel's youngest-ever Prime Minister. After serving a single term, Netanyahu and Likud were heavily defeated in the
1999 election
by
Ehud Barak
's
One Israel
party; Netanyahu chose to retire from politics entirely, and entered the private sector. However several years later, after his successor as Likud Chairman,
Ariel Sharon
, became Prime Minister, Netanyahu was convinced to return to politics, and served as
Minister of Foreign Affairs
and
Minister of Finance
. As Finance Minister, Netanyahu initiated major reforms of the Israeli economy that were credited by commentators as having significantly improved Israel's subsequent economic performance. Netanyahu later clashed with Sharon, eventually resigning over disagreements regarding the
Gaza
disengagement plan
.Netanyahu returned to the leadership of Likud in December 2005 after Sharon stepped down to form a new party,
Kadima
. He was the
Leader of the Opposition
from 2006 to 2009. Although Likud finished second in the
2009 election
to Kadima, Netanyahu was able to
form a coalition government
with other right-wing parties and was sworn in as Prime Minister for a second time. He went on to lead Likud to victory in the
2013
and
2015 elections
. After the
April 2019 election
resulted in no party being able to form a government, a second election in 2019 took place. In the
September 2019 election
, the centrist
Blue and White
alliance, led by
Benny Gantz
, emerged slightly ahead of Netanyahu's Likud; however, neither Netanyahu nor Gantz was able to form a government. After continued political deadlock, this was resolved when Likud and Blue and White reached a coalition agreement following the
2020 election
. Under the terms of the agreement, the premiership would
rotate
between Netanyahu and
Benny Gantz
, in which Gantz was scheduled to succeed Netanyahu in November 2021. In December 2020, this coalition collapsed and a
new election was held in March 2021
. In his
final government
, . In June 2021, after
Naftali Bennett
formed
a government
with
Yair Lapid
, Netanyahu was removed from the premiership, becoming Leader of the Opposition for the third time. Netanyahu made his closeness to
Donald Trump
, a personal friend since the 1980s, central to his political appeal in Israel from 2016. During
Trump's presidency
, the
United States recognized Jerusalem as the capital of Israel
,
recognized Israeli sovereignty over the Golan Heights
, and brokered the
Abraham Accords
, a series of
normalization agreements
between Israel and various
Arab states
. Since December 2016, Netanyahu has been
under investigation
for corruption by Israeli police and prosecutors. On 21 November 2019, he was indicted on charges of breach of trust, bribery and fraud. Due to the indictment, Netanyahu was legally required to relinquish all of his ministry posts other than the prime minister position prior to his ousting.