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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is an Israeli politician, leader of the Likud since 1993, Israel's first directly elected Prime Minister, and Israel's first Prime Minister to be born after the establishment of the state. Netanyahu was born in 1949 to a Revisionist family in Tel Aviv. As a child and youth he lived with his family in the US in the years 1956-58 and again in 1963-67.

He returned to Israel in order to serve in the IDF in the years 1967-72, and reached the rank of captain in the elite unit, "Sayeret Matkal". After concluding his military service Netanyahu returned to the US and received a first degree in Architecture and a second degree in Business Administration at M.I.T, and started working for the "Boston Consultant Group". After his brother Jonathan (Yonni) was killed, in July 1976, in the course of the Entebbe Operation, of which he was one of the commanders, Netanyahu returned to Israel and started to advocate international cooperation in fighting terrorism. In 1980 he set up and headed the Jonathan Institute for the Study of Terrorism, and started working as marketing manager in a Jerusalem based furniture company "Rim".