Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu chairs the weekly cabinet meeting at his office in Jerusalem on October 27.
Netanyahu, right, sits with a friend at the entrance to his family home in Jerusalem on July 1, 1967. The Israeli prime minister was born October 21, 1949.
Netanyahu, right, with a friend in the Judean Desert on May 1, 1968.
Netanyahu serves in the Sayeret Matkal, an elite commando unit of the Israeli army, in 1971. He spent five years in the unit.
Netanyahu shakes hands with Israeli President Zalman Shazar during a November 1972 ceremony honoring the Sayeret Matkal soldiers who freed hostages in a hijacking earlier that year.
Netanyahu and his first wife, Miriam, in June 1980.
Netanyahu and his daughter, Noa, in June 1980.
Netanyahu speaks in July 1986 with Sorin Hershko, one of the Israeli soldiers wounded in Operation Entebbe. It was the 10th anniversary of Operation Entebbe, a dramatic rescue of Jewish hostages at Uganda’s Entebbe Airport. Netanyahu’s brother, Yonatan, was killed leading Operation Entebbe in 1976. Affected by his brother’s death, Netanyahu organized two international conferences on ways to combat terrorism, one in 1979 and another in 1984.
From 1984 to 1988, Netanyahu was Israel’s ambassador to the United Nations.
Netanyahu talks to Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir on a stroll in New York’s Central Park in November 1987.
Netanyahu, as Israel’s deputy foreign minister, goes through some papers as Government Secretary Elyakim Rubinstein recites morning prayers on a flight from New York to Washington in April 1989.
Shamir speaks with Netanyahu at a Middle East peace conference in Madrid in October 1991.
Netanyahu celebrates after being elected chairman of the right-wing Likud party on March 21, 1993.
Netanyahu and former foreign minister David Levy sit in the Knesset during the vote for a new Israeli President on March 24, 1993.
Netanyahu meets with King Hussein of Jordan, center, and Crown Prince Hassan in December 1994. It was Netanyahu’s first visit to Jordan.
Netanyahu shakes hands with outgoing Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres before taking the office himself in June 1996.
Netanyahu meets with Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat for the first time on September 4, 1996, at an Israeli army base at the Erez Checkpoint in Gaza.
Netanyahu meets with US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright in Washington in February 1997.
Netanyahu spends the day on the beach with his wife, Sara, and son Avner in Caesarea, Israel, on August 16, 1997.
Actor Kirk Douglas holds the King David Award, presented to him by the Jerusalem Fund of Aish HaTorah during a dinner in Beverly Hills, California, on November 17, 1997. Douglas was honored for his inspirational commitment to Israel and the Jewish people and in recognition of his new book “Climbing the Mountain.” Netanyahu is on the left. To the right is Rabbi Nachum Braverman, director of the Jerusalem Fund of Aish HaTorah.
Netanyahu looks through binoculars during a tour of the West Bank with the Israeli Cabinet on December 28, 1997.
Netanyahu and UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan meet in Annan’s office in New York on May 15, 1998.
From left, Arafat, King Hussein, US President Bill Clinton and Netanyahu sign an interim Middle East peace agreement in October 1998.
Netanyahu thanks a crowd of supporters in Tel Aviv, Israel, at a Likud party meeting in May 1999. The outgoing Prime Minister announced that he was quitting the Knesset and stepping down as party leader 10 days after being defeated in elections.
Netanyahu testifies before the US House Government Reform Committee on September 20, 2001. The committee was conducting hearings on terrorism following the September 11 attacks.
Netanyahu, as Israel’s foreign minister, laughs with Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon at the start of a Likud convention in Tel Aviv on November 12, 2002.
Netanyahu and his wife, Sara, are seen at a polling station in Jerusalem on August 14, 2007. He was re-elected as head of the Likud party.
Netanyahu shakes hands with Israeli President Shimon Peres in February 2009 after Netanyahu won backing from the Israeli parliament to become Prime Minister again. A close election between Netanyahu and rival Tzipi Livni had left the results unclear until the parliament’s decision.
From left, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, Netanyahu, US President Barack Obama, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Jordan’s King Abdullah II walk to the East Room of the White House to make statements on the Middle East peace process on September 1, 2010.
Obama meets with Netanyahu at the White House in September 2010.
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton looks on as Abbas and Netanyahu shake hands in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt, on September 14, 2010, during a second round of Middle East peace talks.
British Prime Minister David Cameron welcomes Netanyahu to 10 Downing Street in London on May 4, 2011.
Netanyahu address a joint session of the US Congress on May 24, 2011. He said that he was prepared to make “painful compromises” for a peace settlement with the Palestinians, but he repeated that Israel will not accept a return to its pre-1967 boundaries.
Netanyahu uses a diagram of a bomb to describe Iran’s nuclear program while delivering an address to the UN General Assembly on September 27, 2012. Netanyahu exhorted the General Assembly to draw “a clear red line” to stop Iran from developing nuclear weapons.
Netanyahu and Avigdor Lieberman of the Likud-Beiteinu coalition party greet supporters as they arrive onstage on election night in January 2013. The Likud-Beiteinu won 31 seats in the Knesset.
Netanyahu speaks at the UN General Assembly on October 1, 2013. He accused Iranian President Hassan Rouhani of seeking to obtain a nuclear weapon and described him as “a wolf in sheep’s clothing, a wolf who thinks he can pull the wool over the eyes of the international community.”
In December 2014, Netanyahu called for early elections as he fired two key ministers for opposing government policy.
Netanyahu is greeted by members of US Congress as he arrives to speak in the House chamber in March 2015. He warned that a proposed agreement between world powers and Iran was “a bad deal” that would not stop Tehran from getting nuclear weapons — but would rather pave its way to getting lots of them and leave the Jewish State in grave peril.
Netanyahu and his family take a vacation in southern Israel in April 2015.
Netanyahu and German Chancellor Angela Merkel talk in Berlin in October 2015.
Netanyahu speaks to the press in Tel Aviv, Israel, in June 2016. A day earlier, two attackers identified as Palestinians opened fire at a popular food and shopping complex near the Israeli Defense Ministry in Tel Aviv, killing four Israelis and sending other patrons scrambling to safety.
Netanyahu stands next to US President Barack Obama as they attend the funeral of former Israeli President Shimon Peres in September 2016.
Netanyahu visits Moriah College in Sydney in February 2017. It was the first time an Israeli prime minister had visited Australia.
Netanyahu speaks to US President Donald Trump in May 2017. Trump visited Israel and the West Bank during his first foreign trip as President.
Netanyahu and his wife, Sara, pose for a photo at the Taj Mahal in Agra, India, in January 2018.
Netanyahu, speaking at a security conference in Germany in February 2018, holds up what he claimed is a piece of an Iranian drone that was shot down after it flew over Israeli territory.
Netanyahu and his wife, Sara, pose for a photo with Russian President Vladimir Putin after talks in Moscow in February 2019.
Netanyahu greets supporters in April 2019.
Netanyahu meets with British Prime Minister Boris Johnson in London in September 2019.
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