1. Sara Netanyahu is married to the prime minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu.
17 Facts About Sara Netanyahu
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Sara Netanyahu is the spouse of the prime minister of Israel, holding the role for her third time.
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Sara Netanyahu's father, Shmuel Ben-Artzi, was a Polish-born Israeli Jewish educator, author, poet and biblical scholar, who died in 2011 at the age of 96.
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Sara Netanyahu's mother, Chava, was a sixth-generation Jerusalemite.
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Sara Netanyahu has three brothers, all of whom were Israel Bible Contest champions: Matanya Ben-Artzi, a professor of mathematics, Hagai Ben-Artzi, a professor of Bible and Jewish Thought, and Amatzia Ben-Artzi, a technology entrepreneur.
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Sara Netanyahu attended Greenberg High School in Kiryat Tiv'on, where she was an outstanding student.
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Sara Netanyahu later worked as a reporter for Maariv LaNoar, a weekly magazine for Israeli teenagers.
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Sara Netanyahu worked as a psychotechnical evaluator of gifted children at the Institute for Promoting Youth Creativity and Excellence headed by Dr Erika Landau, and at a rehabilitation center of the Ministry of Labour.
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Sara Netanyahu's work includes psychological diagnoses and treatment for children in the school system and assistance to children from families in distress.
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Sara Netanyahu has received much media attention, usually negative in tone and focusing on poor interpersonal relations.
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Sara Netanyahu won a libel case filed against Schocken publishers for falsely maligning her, and a libel suit in 2002 against the local paper Kol Ha'ir, after two unfounded reports were published about her in the paper's gossip column.
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In February 2016, the Jerusalem Labor Court ruled in favor of plaintiff Meni Naftali, who claimed that Sara Netanyahu had created a hostile work environment and awarded him damages of NIS 170,000.
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On September 8,2017, Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit announced that Sara Netanyahu would be charged with ordering meals at the state's expense without authorization.
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Sara Netanyahu's lawyers met with Mandelblit, while she herself did not attend, breaking with usual custom.
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Sara Netanyahu's lawyers argued that the meals were ordered by an assistant for visiting dignitaries.
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On 16 June 2019, Sara Netanyahu signed a plea deal and was convicted of misusing state funds, with the more severe charge of fraud being dropped.
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Sara Netanyahu was ordered to pay 55,000 NIS to the state.