Sara Netanyahu
| Sara Netanyahu | |
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Netanyahu in 1992
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| Spouse of the Prime Minister of Israel | |
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Assumed office 31 March 2009 |
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| Prime Minister | Benjamin Netanyahu |
| Preceded by | Aliza Olmert |
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In office 18 June 1996 – 6 July 1999 |
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| Prime Minister | Benjamin Netanyahu |
| Preceded by | Sonya Gelman |
| Succeeded by | Nava Cohen |
| Personal details | |
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Sara Ben-Artzi November 5, 1958 Kiryat Tiv'on, Israel |
| Spouse(s) | Benjamin Netanyahu |
| Alma mater | Tel Aviv University |
| Occupation | Educational psychologist |
| Religion | Secular Judaism |
Sara Netanyahu (Hebrew: שרה נתניהו; born 5 November 1958) is the wife of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Netanyahu is an educational and career psychologist by profession.
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 97. Her mother, Chava (Paritzky), was a sixth-generation Jerusalemite. She attended Greenberg High School in Tiv'on, where she was an outstanding student. She later worked as a reporter for Maariv LaNoar, a weekly magazine for Israeli teenagers. In the Israel Defense Forces, she was a psycho-technical evaluator in the Military Intelligence Directorate ("Aman"). Netanyahu completed her BA in psychology at Tel Aviv University in 1984 and her master's degree at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1996.
Netanyahu married Doron Neuberger in 1980. The couple divorced in 1987. In 1991, she married Benjamin Netanyahu. They have two sons. In 2010, her son Avner won the International Bible Contest award on the national level, and came in third place on the international level. Her brothers are Matanya Ben-Artzi, a professor of mathematics, Hagi Ben-Artzi, a professor of Bible and Jewish Thought, and Amatzia Ben-Artzi, a technology entrepreneur. All three of her brothers were Israel Bible Contest champions.
Netanyahu worked as a psychotechnical evaluator of gifted children at the Institute for Promoting Youth Creativity and Excellence" headed by Dr. Erika Landau, and at a rehabilitation center of the Ministry of Labour. She also worked as an El Al flight attendant.
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