Benjamin Netanyahu

On February 28, 2019, Netanyahu was indicted on bribe and fraud charges in three different cases.^[source?]

On April 20 April 2020, Opposition Leader Benny Gantz and Netanyahu announced an agreement on a unity government had been reached following the 2020 legislative election. The deal would involve both parties splitting power and Gantz and Netanyahu taking turns being prime minister. The deal said that Gantz would be Vice Prime Minister until October 2021, by then he would replace Netanyahu to become Prime Minister.^[3]

In May 2021, Hamas fired rockets on Israel from Gaza, which caused Netanyahu to act Operation Guardian of the Walls, lasting eleven days.^[4]

After the 2021 Israel-Palestine crisis, Israeli politician and leader of the Yamina alliance Naftali Bennett announced that he has agreed to a deal with Yair Lapid to forge a coalition government that would remove Netanyahu from his Prime Minister position.^[5] This is after the 2021 March election.^[6]

After the 2022 election, Netanyahu was sworn in as Prime Minister again.^[7] He officially started his sixth term on 29 December 2022.^[8]

The first months of Netanyahu's sixth term focused on reforms in the judicial branch. His critics said his reforms would have a negative effect on the separation of powers.^[9][10][11] After weeks of public protests, Minister of Defense Yoav Gallant spoke against the reform on 25 March.^[12] He was removed from his post by Netanyahu the following day.^[13][14]

On May 20, 2024 the International Criminal court Prosecutor Karim Ahmad Khan, who was later accused of repeated sexual abuse and witness intimidation,^[15] applied for an arrest warrant for the arrest of prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu.^[16] Charges brought by Karim Khan include but are not limited to:

• Starvation of civilians as a method of warfare
• Intentionally directing attacks against a civilian population

Netanyahu was a captain in the Israel Defense Forces. He fought in the raid on Lebanon in 1968. He also fought in the raid on Yarden in 1968. His brother Yonatan (1946, New York City – 1976, Entebbe) commanded the special reconnaissance unit Sayeret Matkal.

Books:
Through the years Netanyahu authored six books, three of which focus on counter-terrorism. The books he wrote himself include:

• International Terrorism: Challenge and Response (The Jonathon Institute, 1980) (ISBN 0-87855-894-2)
• Terrorism: How the West Can Win (Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1986) (ISBN 0-380-70321-1)
• A Place Among the Nations (Bantam, 1993) (ISBN 0-553-08974-9)
• Fighting Terrorism: How Democracies Can Defeat Domestic and International Terrorism (Diane Pub Co, 1995) (ISBN 0-374-52497-1)
• A Durable Peace: Israel and Its Place Among the Nations (Warner Books, 2000) (ISBN 0-446-52306-2)
• Bibi: My Story (Threshold Editions [Simon&Schuster], November, 2022)

• Fourth Netanyahu Government
• Netanyahu-Gantz Government (Fifth Netanyahu Government)
• Yonatan Netanyahu

• Official website Archived 2012-02-23 at the Wayback Machine
• Biography of Benjamin Netanyahu at Zionism and Israel Information Center Biography Section
• Website of supporters of Benjamin Netanyahu (in Hebrew)
• Benjamin Netanyahu on the definition of terror (BBC, 5 min.)
• Benjamin Netanyahu Profile on Israeli Lexicon (Ynetnews)
• Netanyahu: Pullout will worsen Israel's security Archived 2012-02-03 at the Wayback Machine. The Jerusalem Post, 5 August 2005
• Cheltenham High School Hall of Fame Biography Archived 2009-08-03 at the Wayback Machine Archived 2009-08-03 at the Wayback Machine
• Netanyahu’s Fortification Plan Archived 2007-10-27 at the Wayback Machine
• The 32nd Government, official Knesset website
• Sara Netanyahu Archived 2009-04-02 at the Wayback Machine, Sara Netanyahu biography and photos