Benzion Netanyahu

Benzion Netanyahu (Hebrew: בֶּנְצִיּוֹן נְתַנְיָהוּ, IPA: [ˈbentsijon netanˈjahu]; March 25, 1910 – April 30, 2012) was an Israeli scholar of Judaic history, activist in the Revisionist Zionism movement, who lobbied in the United States for the creation of the Jewish state. His field of expertise was the history of the Jews in Spain and he served an editor of the Hebrew Encyclopedia and was a professor at Cornell University. He spent a significant portion of his life in the United States, and became Ze'ev Jabotinsky’s personal secretary, but never got involved in Israeli politics. Netanyahu's son is Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

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Benzion Netanyahu
Birth dateMarch 25, 1910
Birth nameBenzion Mileikowsky
Birth place
Warsaw , Russian Empire
Nationality
Israel
Date of deathApril 30, 2012
Place of death
Jerusalem , Israel
Education
Jerusalem
Master of Arts
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Doctor of Philosophy
Center for Advanced Judaic Studies
Israel
Parents
Rabbi
Children

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