Portrait of Benjamin Netanyahu Benjamin Netanyahu Background picture of the Knesset
 
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Particulars

Date of Birth:21/10/1949
Place of Birth:Tel Aviv, Israel
Residence:Jerusalem
Family Status:Married
Number of Children:3

Education

B.A. Architecture, M.Sc., Business Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Military Service

Captain

Contact Info

Telephone:02-6753227
Telephone 2:02-6408457
Fax:02-6496659
Email:bnetanyahu@knesset.gov.il

Profession

Administrator

Languages

English, French



Knesset Terms
Knesset 1221.11.1988 - 13.7.1992
Knesset 1313.7.1992 - 17.6.1996
Knesset 1417.6.1996 - 7.6.1999
Knesset 157.6.1999 - 6.7.1999 (Partial tenure)
Knesset 1617.2.2003 - 17.4.2006
Knesset 1717.4.2006 - 24.2.2009
Knesset 1824.2.2009

Committees
Knesset 13Member, Constitution, Law and Justice Committee
 Member, Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee

Other Knesset Roles
Knesset 17Chairman of the Opposition

Parliamentary Groups
Knesset 12 Likud
Knesset 13 Likud
Knesset 14 Likud Gesher Tzomet, Likud-Tzomet, Likud
Knesset 15 Likud
Knesset 16 Likud
Knesset 17 Likud
Knesset 18 Likud
Roles in the Government
 
Knesset 12Govt. 23  From 26/12/1988 Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs
 Govt. 24  From 25/06/1990 Until 11/11/1991 Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs
   From 11/11/1991 Deputy Minister in the Ministry in the Prime Minister`s Office
Knesset 14Govt. 27   Prime Minister 
    Until 04/09/1996 Minister of Justice
    Until 09/07/1997 Minister of Finance
    Until 09/07/1997 Minister of Science
    Until 07/08/1996 Minister of Religious Affairs
    Minister of Housing
   From 12/08/1997 Until 22/08/1997 Minister of Religious Affairs
   From 20/01/1998 Until 25/02/1998 Minister of Religious Affairs
   From 18/12/1998 Until 23/02/1999 Minister of Finance
Knesset 15Govt. 29  From 06/11/2002 Minister of Foreign Affairs
Knesset 16Govt. 30   Until 09/08/2005 Minister of Finance
Knesset 18Govt. 32   Prime Minister 
    Minister of Economic Strategy
    Minister of Pensioner Affairs
    Minister of Health
Public Activities
Chairman of the Likud Party
Ambassador to the United Nations (1984-1988)
Deputy Chief of Mission, Israeli Embassy, Washington (1982-1984)
Member, First Israeli Delegation to the US-Israel Strategic Talks
Member, Israel’s Delegation to the Madrid Peace Conference (1991)
Director of the ”Jonathan Institute”
Organizer of International Conferences on Terrorism in Jerusalem & Washington (1979, 1984)
Initiated the opening of the UN Archives on Nazi War Crimes (1987)

Publications
Articles in the international and Israeli Press
Yoni’s Letters (Ed.) (1978)
Terror: Challenge and Reaction (Ed.) (1980)
Terrorism: How the West Can Win (Ed.) (1986)
International Terrorism: Challenge and Response (Ed.) (1991)
A Place Among the Nations: Israel and the World (1993)
Fighting Terrorism: How Democracies Can Defeat Domestic and International Terrorism (1995)

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