He moved back to Israel in 1978 to found the Yonatan Netanyahu Anti-Terror Institute. After graduating from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Netanyahu became an economic consultant for the Boston Consulting Group. 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. He returned to Israel in 1967 to join the Israel Defense Forces. īorn in Tel Aviv to secular Jewish parents, Netanyahu was raised in Jerusalem and in Philadelphia in the United States. He is also the first prime minister to have been born in Israel after its Declaration of Independence. Netanyahu is the longest-tenured prime minister in the country's history, having served for a total of over 16 years. Benjamin ' Bibi' Netanyahu ( / ˌ n ɛ t ən ˈ j ɑː h uː/ NET-ən- YAH-hoo Hebrew: בִּנְיָמִין נְתַנְיָהוּ, romanized: Binyāmīn Nētanyāhū, pronounced ⓘ born 21 October 1949) is an Israeli politician who has been serving as the prime minister of Israel since 2022, having previously held the office from 1996 to 1999 and again from 2009 to 2021.
