Benjamin Netanyahu

4 days ago - At MIT, Netanyahu studied a double-load while taking courses at Harvard University, completing his bachelor's degree in architecture in two and a half years, despite taking a break to fight in the Yom Kippur War. Professor Leon B. Groisser at MIT recalled: "He did superbly. He was very bright. Organized. Strong. Powerful. He knew what he wanted to do and how to get it done." At that time he changed his name to Benjamin "Ben" Nitai (Nitai, a reference to both Mount Nitai and to the eponymous Jewish sage Nittai of Arbela, was a pen name often used by his father for articles).

October 15, 2023 - The Middle East, albeit a political and social construct by name, is the birthplace of the world’s three largest Abrahamic religions: Christianity, Islam, and Judaism. Netanyahu’s stern proclamation makes me examine my own internal battles with forgiveness.

October 30, 2024 - I believe he is secular, but has aligned himself with anti-LGBT forces, especially now since at least before October 7th nobody really wanted to work with him anymore, except for the far right and Haredi parties, so that's who he worked with to build the 37th government. I think Benjamin Netanyahu's ideology is to do whatever's best for Benjamin Netanyahu.

August 8, 2025 - Writing in the Vatican newspaper, a Jesuit priest who is a convert from Judaism said that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, “his allies, the Israeli settler movement, and those who commit acts of violence against Palestinians” misuse Scripture when they “continually draw on biblical language to justify their acts of death and destruction.” Father David Neuhaus, SJ—formerly the Jesuit superior in the Holy Land and the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem’s vicar for Hebrew-speaking Catholics—linked this misuse of Scripture to that of Israel’s first prime minister, David Ben-Gurion.

Answer (1 of 9): Mr Netanyahu, aka Bibi, is a Jew. He is Ashkenazi. His brother, Yannni led the raid on Entebbe, Uganda, which freed the skyjacked passengers from Idi Amin who colluded with the kidnappers of these innocents.

May 3, 2012 - But B. Netanyahu, in his seminal work, “The Origins of the Spanish Inquisition in fifteenth century Spain”, debunked this theory. (1995 Random House) He argued that most of the Jews who converted and assimilated did so willingly. They “wished to merge with the Christian society, educate their children as fully fledged Christians, and remove themselves from anything regarded as Jewish, especially in the field of religion” he wrote.

Answer (1 of 15): In June, 2025, his behavior has not been the behavior of an atheist. * He prayed at the Western Wall just before the June attacks on Iran. * At a parliament session, he recited the full text of the blessing thanking God for the keeping us alive, functioning and surviving at t...

January 27, 2024 - Netanyahu was born into a secular Jewish family that did not practice Judaism as a religion and he himself is thoroughly secular.

June 23, 2025 - Some critics say Netanyahu's religiousness is tactical. However, if Netanyahu wanted to use faith for political gain, he has had many opportunities to do so, but he never did.

2 weeks ago - Netanyahu was again prime minister from 2009 to 2021. His third term began in 2022. Benjamin Netanyahu is a member of Likud, an ideologically conservative and nationalist party. He first became Likud’s leader in 1993, succeeding Yitzḥak Shamir, but he lost that role to Ariel Sharon in 1999.

December 9, 2022 - And that, obviously you have flare-ups here and there, but it's that policy that I will continue of ensuring a status quo which allows the freedom of religion, freedom of worship for all three religions, that it can be secured. And most people, when they eye it, objectively understand that. Peter Robinson: Last question about how Israel works. Here's the, this is- Bibi Netanyahu: How Israel works.

November 3, 2023 - Asli Nur Duzgun, who studies US evangelicals at Istanbul Medeniyet University, took a close look at Netanyahu's speeches, and Netanyahu’s reference to an ancient tribe, saying: "The Book of Isaiah is the first book in the Tanak (Hebrew Bible) that talks about prophets.

Benjamin Netanyahu, often referred ... on October 21, 1949, in Tel Aviv, he was raised in a Zionist family that deeply valued Jewish statehood....

October 13, 2025 - Talmudic studies, the scholarly analysis of the Talmud, a central text of Jewish law and tradition, hold significant importance in understanding the religious origin of Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. These studies have profoundly shaped his beliefs, values, and political views, influencing his approach to various issues related to religion, state, and society.

December 28, 2022 - Asked by Peterson to speak about Theodor Herzl, the founder the modern Zionist movement at the end of the nineteenth century, Netanyahu told us that he calls Herzl “the modern Moses”, and then used that as a slightly slippery segue straight into the original Moses of the Bible.

Answer (1 of 9): Not at all, from what I know. He doesn’t keep the Sabbath, he doesn’t observe Jewish dietary laws, and he violates all this on public and even on TV (violation in public is doubly problematic because you are leading other people to violate it as well).

March 3, 2015 - The night before addressing a joint session of Congress—a controversial event that has garnered a great deal of attention from both the Left and the Right—Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke to an estimated crowd of 16,000 people at the annual policy conference of the American Israeli Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) declaring, “For 2,000 years, my people, the Jewish people, were stateless, defenseless, voiceless…