Sara Netanyahu
Sara Netanyahu
Sara Netanyahu (Hebrew: שרה נתניהו; née Ben-Artzi [בן ארצי]; born November 1958) is the spouse of the prime minister of Israel by marriage to Benjamin Netanyahu, holding the role for her third time. By profession, she is an educational and career psychologist.
Family and education
!Sara on her father [Shmuel Ben-Artzi's lap, 1960](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/59/ShmuelandChavaBenArtziandfourchildren1960.jpg/250px-ShmuelandChavaBenArtziandfourchildren1960.jpg)
Family and education
Sara Ben-Artzi (later Netanyahu) was born in the northern Israeli town of Kiryat Tiv'on, near Haifa. Her 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. Her mother, Chava (née Paritzky; 1922–2003), was a sixth-generation Jerusalemite. She 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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