Very Rare Benjamin Netanyahu Signed letter to Gavriel Tsifroni (journalist)

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Very Rare Benjamin Netanyahu Signed letter to Gavriel Tsifroni (journalist).
A handwritten, printed letter from Deputy Minister of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office as part of his campaign for the primaries in the Likud before the 1992 elections.  In the elections, Yitzhak Shamir lost to Yitzhak Rabin.
In the letter, Netanyahu warns that this is a fateful election campaign and that the left will succumb to international pressures and create a Palestinian state, and that only choosing it will help prevent it.
On an official stationery of the Prime Minister's Office.  Folding line, some minor defects.
Benjamin Netanyahu
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"Netanyahu" redirects here. For his brother, the commander of Operation Entebbe, see
Yonatan Netanyahu
. For other people with this name, see
Netanyahu (surname)
.
Benjamin Netanyahu
(
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;
[3]
Hebrew
:
בִּנְיָמִין נְתַנְיָהוּ
(
help
·
info
)
; born 21 October 1949) is an Israeli politician who has been
Prime Minister of Israel
since 2009, having previously held the position from 1996 to 1999. Netanyahu is also the
Chairman of the Likud – National Liberal Movement
. He is the
longest-serving
Prime Minister in Israeli history
[4]
[5]
and the first to be
born in Israel
after the
establishment of the state
.
Benjamin Netanyahu
Netanyahu in 2018
9th
Prime Minister of Israel
Incumbent
Assumed office
31 March 2009
President
Shimon Peres
Reuven Rivlin
Preceded by
Ehud Olmert
In office
18 June 1996 – 6 July 1999
President
Ezer Weizman
Preceded by
Shimon Peres
Succeeded by
Ehud Barak
Chairman of Likud
Incumbent
Assumed office
20 December 2005
Preceded by
Ariel Sharon
In office
3 February 1993 – 6 July 1999
Preceded by
Yitzhak Shamir
Succeeded by
Ariel Sharon
Personal details
Born
21 October 1949
(age 70)
Tel Aviv
,
Israel
Political party
Likud
Spouse(s)
Miriam Weizmann
(
m.
1972;
div.
1978)
Fleur Cates
(
m.
1981;
div.
1984)
Sara Ben-Artzi
(
m.
1991)
Children
3
Parents
Benzion Netanyahu
Tzila Segal
Residence
Beit Aghion
,
Jerusalem
Alma mater
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
(
SB
,
SM
)
Harvard University
(
PhD
– unfinished)
Occupation
Politician
diplomat
writer
economic consultant
marketing executive
Signature
Website
netanyahu.org.il
Military service
Nickname(s)
Bibi
[1]
Allegiance
Israel
Branch/service
Israeli Defense Forces
Years of service
1967–73
Rank
Seren
(Captain)
Unit
Sayeret Matkal
Battles/wars
War of Attrition
Yom Kippur War
Knessets
12
,
13
,
14
,
15
,
16
,
17
,
18
,
19
,
20
,
21
,
22
Ministerial roles
1996–97
Science and Technology
1996–99
Housing and Construction
2002–03
Foreign Affairs
2003–05
Finance
2009–13
Economic Strategy
2009–13
Pensioner Affairs
2009–13
Health
2012–13
Foreign Affairs
2013
Public Diplomacy and Diaspora Affairs
2013
Foreign Affairs
Public Diplomacy and Diaspora Affairs
2014–15
Communications
2015
Pensioner Affairs
2015–19
Foreign Affairs
2015–19
Economy
Health
Regional Cooperation
Born in
Tel Aviv
to
secular Jewish
parents, Netanyahu was raised in both
Jerusalem
and the
Philadelphia area
of the
United States
. He returned to Israel immediately upon graduating
high school
in 1967 to join the
Israel Defense Forces
shortly after the
Six-Day War
.
[6]
Netanyahu became a team leader in the
Sayeret Matkal
special forces unit
[7]
[8]
and took part in many missions, including
Operation Inferno
(1968),
Operation Gift
(1968) and
Operation Isotope
(1972), during which he was shot in the shoulder. Netanyahu fought on the front lines in the
War of Attrition
and the
Yom Kippur War
in 1973, taking part in special forces raids along the
Suez Canal
and then leading a commando assault deep into
Syrian
territory.
[9]
[10]
Netanyahu achieved the
rank of captain
before being discharged. After graduating from
MIT
with a Bachelor of Science (SB) and a Master of Science (SM), Netanyahu became an economic consultant for the
Boston Consulting Group
. He moved back to Israel in 1978 to found the
Yonatan Netanyahu Anti-Terror Institute
, named after his brother
Yonatan Netanyahu
, who died leading
Operation Entebbe
.
In 1984, Netanyahu was appointed the
Permanent Representative of Israel to the United Nations
by Prime Minister
Yitzhak Shamir
, a role he held until 1988. He was subsequently elected to the
Knesset
before becoming the leader of
Likud
in 1993; he then led the party to victory at the
1996 election
, becoming Israel's youngest-ever prime minister. After being defeated in the
1999 election
, Netanyahu left politics, returning to the private sector. He later served as
Minister of Foreign Affairs
and
Minister of Finance
in the government of
Ariel Sharon
, but eventually resigned over disagreements regarding the
Gaza
disengagement plan
. As Finance Minister, Netanyahu initiated major reforms of the Israeli economy that were credited by commentators as having significantly improved Israel's subsequent economic performance.
[11]
Netanyahu returned to the leadership of Likud in December 2005 after Sharon stepped down to form a new party,
Kadima
.
[12]
Although Likud finished second in the
2009 election
to Kadima, Netanyahu was able to
form a coalition government
with other right-wing parties and was sworn in as Prime Minister for a second time.
[13]
[14]
[15]
He went on to lead Likud to victory in the
2013
and
2015 elections
.
[16]
After the
April 2019 election
resulted in no party being able to form a government, a
second election
took place in September 2019; in that election, the centrist Blue and White party emerged slightly ahead of Netanyahu's Likud. However, neither Netanyahu nor
Benny Gantz
of the Blue and White Party was able to form a government, and Gantz returned the mandate to the president.
[17]
Since December 2016, Netanyahu has been
under investigation
for corruption by Israeli police and prosecutors.
[18]
On 21 November 2019, he was indicted on charges of breach of trust, bribery and fraud.
[19]
Due to the indictment, Netanyahu is legally required to relinquish all of his ministry posts other than the prime minister position.
[20]
[21]
Gavriel Tsifroni
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Gavriel Tsifroni, circa 1940s or 1950s
Gavriel Tsifroni
(
Hebrew
:
גבריאל צפרוני
‎;‎ 1914 – 7 June 2011) was an Israeli journalist.
Biography
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Tsifroni was born in
Vilna
in 1914. At the age of three he immigrated to
Mandate Palestine
with his family, which moved to
Tel Aviv
. From the age of 14 he worked in a bakery delivering bread to the residents of the town. At the age of 16 he began working as a journalist in the Hebrew newspaper
"
Hazit HaAm
"
, and later on for the Hebrew newspaper
"
Do'ar HaYom
"
. He worked as a reporter of the
"
Daily Telegraph
"
and the
"
HaTzofe
"
. In 1935, he began working for the Hebrew newspaper
"
HaBoker
"
, initially as a reporter in Tel Aviv, and afterwards as a branch manager in
Jerusalem
.
In 1962, Tsifroni was appointed as the editor of the
"
HaBoker
"
newspaper, and he served in this position until the newspaper was shut down in 1965. Between 1969 and 1977, he served as a CEO of the
Habima Theatre
in Tel Aviv.
Tsifroni was married to Shulamit Tsifroni (1917 - 2008) née
Abulafia
, and together they had one daughter.
Tsifroni died on June 7, 2011, at age 96.
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