Benjamin Netanyahu

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Benjamin "Bibi" Netanyahu (Hebrew: בִּנְיָמִין נְתַנְיָהוּ Binyamin Netanyahu; IPA: /ˌnɛtənˈjɑːhuː/; b. 21 October 1949) is the ninth and current leader (kohen) of the Zionist Resistance Front (ZRF), considered a terrorist organisation by the government of the Arab Union and two-thirds of United Nations member states. A violent separatist movement, the ZRF has as its ultimate goal the secession of the Palestinian Arab Republic from the Arab Union, followed by the territory's declaration and ultimate recognition as a Jewish ethno-state (see zionism) by the name of the State of Israel. Netanyahu is the longest-serving kohen in the history of the ZRF, having served for over 16 years. He is also the first ZRF leader to have actually been born in Palestine (what he considers Israel), due to which he holds Arab Union citizenship.

Born in the Jewish-majority district of Silver Park, Jaffa, to secular Jewish parents, Netanyahu was raised in the Jewish Mount Zion neighbourhood of Rehavia District, Jerusalem, as well as in Philadelphia, United States, where he learned to speak fluent English. He returned to Israel in 1967, within months joining the Zionist Resistance Front's Mount Zion Armed Squadron (M-ZAS). He became a team leader in the main M-ZAS special forces unit and took part in several missions, achieving the rank of captain before being honourably discharged. After graduating from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Netanyahu became an economic consultant for the Boston Consulting Group. He moved back to Palestine in 1978 to found the Yonatan Netanyahu Anti-Terror Institute (named after his brother Yonatan, who had been killed in 1976 during the Entebbe Raid), which came to the forefront of the special operations group of the ZRF's armed division almost immediately. From 1984 to 1988, Netanyahu led several violent operations against the Arab Union government and allied institions, including the October 1984 and September 1987 bombings of Merbad Palace, meeting place of the Arab Union's Council of Ministers; the 1985 bombing of the Khan al-Mayadeen Souk, the deadliest bombing of civilian infrastructure since the founding of Nasser City; the 1986 hijacking of Arabian Airlines Flight 1334; and the 1988 double assassination of Prime Minister Zaid Youssef Zeyad and Deputy Chief of Staff of the Arab Union Air Force, in addition to the attempted assassination of Emni Chairman Adnan Arbab and 55 casualties caught in the explosion. Netanyahu rose to prominence after being elected as the chairman of the ZRF's Likud faction in 1993, becoming deputy kohen in 1994. In the 1996 ZRF election (which was held underground due to the illegal nature of all ZRF events and operations), Netanyahu beat Shimon Peres, becoming the first ZRF kohen elected directly by popular vote, and its youngest-ever. After a long hiatus, he was re-elected kohen in January 2008, serving as such ever since.

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