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Article: Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu
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- The Washington Report on Middle East Affairs
- Article date:
- December 31, 1996
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Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu
The personality and views of the new Israeli prime minister cannot be understood without going back for quite a time into Jewish history and the history of his family.
In Jewish terms, Binyamin Netanyahu (known as Bibi from his childhood on) comes from a most respectable family. His grandfather was a descendant of "The Sage," Rabbi Eliyahu of Vilna (died 1797), the greatest modem rabbinical authority. His grandmother descends from "Rashi," Rabbi Shlomo Yitzhaki (died 1099), also a great commentator on the Bible and the Talmud.
The first ancestor with whom I will be concerned here is Netanyahu's grandfather, Nathan Milikovsky, born in 1875 in Tsarist Russia ...