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Benjamin "Bibi" Netanyahu (Hebrew: בִּנְיָמִין "ביבי" נְתַנְיָהוּ‎, Binyamin "Bibi" Netanyahu, born 21 October 1949, Tel Aviv) was the 9th Prime Minister of Israel and is Chairman of the Likud Party. As leader of the conservative Likud party, he was Prime Minister from June 1996 to July 1999. He is the first (and to date only) Prime Minister of Israel to be born after the State of Israel`s foundation. He was Finance Minister of Israel until 9 August 2005, having resigned in protest at the Gaza Disengagement Plan advocated by Prime Minister Ariel Sharon. Netanyahu retook the Likud leadership on 20 December 2005. As of December 2006, he became the official leader of the Opposition in the Knesset and Chairman of the Likud Party. In August 2007 he retained the Likud leadership by beating Moshe Feiglin in party elections. Netanyahu was born in Tel Aviv, to Cela (Tsilah) (née Segal) and Benzion Netanyahu (original name Mileikowsky). His mother was also born in 1912 in Petah Tikva in what would become Israel. Though all his grandparents were born in Lithuania, his mother`s parents immigrated to Minneapolis, in the US. Netanyahu`s father (Benzion Netanyahu) is a professor of Jewish history, currently listed as a professor emeritus at Cornell University although the elder Netanyahu has remained active into his 90s in research and writing, a former editor of the Hebrew Encyclopedia, and a former senior aide to Zeev Jabotinsky. When he was 14 years old, his family moved to the United States and settled in Cheltenham Township, Pennsylvania. After a brief career in business, Netanyahu was appointed Deputy Chief of Mission at the Israeli Embassy in Washington, D.C. in 1982. Subsequently, he became Israel`s Ambassador to the United Nations, serving from 1984 to 1988. In 1996, for the first time, Israelis elected their Prime Minister directly. Netanyahu hired American Republican political operative Arthur Finkelstein to run his campaign, and although the American style of sound bites and sharp attacks elicited harsh criticism from inside Israel, it proved effective (ironically, the method was later copied by Ehud Barak during the 1999 election campaign in which he beat Netanyahu). Netanyahu won the election, surprising many by beating the pre-election favourite Shimon Peres.

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Benjamin "Bibi" Netanyahu (Hebrew:·) ; born 21 October 1949) is the Prime Minister of Israel. He serves also as the Chairman of the Likud Party, as a Knesset member, as the Health Minister of Israel, as the Pensioner Affairs Minister of Israel and as the Economic Strategy Minister of Israel.

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