Benjamin Netanyahu Fast Facts
Personal
Birth place: Tel Aviv, Israel
Birth name
Children: with Sara Ben-Artzi: Avner and Yair; with Miriam Haran: Noa
Education: Attended Harvard University; Massachusetts Institute of Technology, B.S., 1974, and M.S., 1976
Military service: Israeli Defense Forces, 1967-1972, Captain
Religion
Is known throughout Israel by the nickname “Bibi.”
Spent his teenage years in the United States; went to high school in Philadelphia.
First Israeli prime minister to be born after the state was founded in 1948.
Netanyahu’s brother, Yonatan, was killed in action in 1976 while leading a mission to rescue Israeli passengers on a hijacked Air France plane.
As it welcomes Rabat’s move, Oman seen ready to normalise with Israel
Analysts believe that the Moroccan move will be a turning point in the process of normalisation between Arab countries and Israel.
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U.S. Secretary of State MIKE Pompeo meets with Oman’s Sultan Haitham bin Tariq at al-Alam palace in Muscat, Oman on February 21, 2020. (REUTERS)
MUSCAT The Sultanate of Oman welcomed Morocco’s announcement of establishing diplomatic relations with Israel, and that it hopes this step will enhance peace efforts in the Middle East.
Analysts were quick to interpret the Omani position as the first sign of Muscat’s readiness for normalisation of relations with Israel and joining the list of countries having established peace agreements with Israel.
The Trump administration is preparing court filings to begin taking over private land to build its long-promised border wall as early as this week without confirming how much it will pay landowners first, according to two officials familiar with the process. Jared Kushner is hosting a meeting with military and administration officials at the White House this Friday, NBC. President Nov 13, 2019
Testimony in the colorful trial of Roger Stone featuring talk of dognapping and Godfather references wrapped up Tuesday with a top Trump campaign official telling jurors that Stone tried to contact Jared Kushner to “debrief” him about hacked emails damaging to Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign.
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