1. Yair Netanyahu is an Israeli podcaster and political activist.
25 Facts About Yair Netanyahu
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Yair Netanyahu was born in Jerusalem to Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife Sara.
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Yair Netanyahu has a brother, Avner Netanyahu, and a half-sister, Noa Netanyahu-Roth; Noa is Benjamin Netanyahu's daughter by his first wife, Miriam Haran nee Weizmann.
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Yair Netanyahu previously worked as social media director for Shurat HaDin, an Israeli NGO that provides legal services to victims of terrorist attacks.
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Yair Netanyahu studied at the Interdisciplinary Center in Herzliya and graduated with a Master of Arts degree in Government Studies.
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Yair Netanyahu lived with his parents at Beit Aghion, the prime minister's official residence in Rehavia, Jerusalem.
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In January 2014, a Norwegian newspaper reported that Yair Netanyahu was dating Sandra Leikanger, a Norwegian student.
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In 2015, Yair Netanyahu briefly dated Lee Levi, a Danish-Israeli model and student.
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In June 2022, Yair Netanyahu received his press card from the Israeli Government Press Office.
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Yair Netanyahu is known for defending his father on social media.
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Yair Netanyahu has published his opinions in Breitbart News, an American far-right news and opinion website.
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One of Yair Netanyahu's comments read: "There will never be peace with those monsters in the form of men that have called themselves 'Palestinians' since 1964".
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In May 2019, Yair Netanyahu expressed support for right-wing nationalist figures Viktor Orban, Matteo Salvini, Nigel Farage and Geert Wilders in the 2019 European Parliament election.
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In June 2019, Yair Netanyahu met with Katrina Pierson, a senior advisor for Donald Trump's 2020 presidential campaign.
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In July 2019, Yair Netanyahu expressed support for British anti-Islam activist Tommy Robinson, during the latter's imprisonment by British authorities.
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In September 2019, Yair Netanyahu accused former Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, who was assassinated in 1995, of having "murdered Holocaust survivors on the Altalena".
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Yair Netanyahu has compared Roni Alsheikh, the Israel Police chief who played a role in the Netanyahu corruption investigations, to the fictional mobster Tony Soprano.
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Yair Netanyahu accused Nir Hafetz and Gideon Saar of various crimes.
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In November 2020, Netanyahu launched his own right-wing podcast called The Yair Netanyahu Show, with episodes in both English and Hebrew.
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In January 2018, a scandal erupted when a recording of Yair Netanyahu's visit to a Tel Aviv strip club in 2015 was leaked.
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Yair Netanyahu filed a lawsuit for 1 million NIS against his driver, who allegedly recorded the conversation.
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On 7 July 2019, he won a libel suit against Israeli Labor Party activist Abie Binyamin for claiming that Yair Netanyahu was hiding millions in offshore accounts.
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In November 2019, Yair Netanyahu was sued for slander after sharing a Facebook post claiming that former Walla news site editor Avi Alkalay was a plant for the Wexner Foundation.
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Yair Netanyahu appealed the decision, but his appeal was rejected by the Tel Aviv Magistrate's Court in July 2021.
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Opposition members alleged that Yair Netanyahu had been sent abroad after an incident in which he reportedly struck his father, and claimed he remained outside the country due to having disrespected a symbol of state authority.