Editing Iddo Netanyahu

{{short description|Israeli physician, author and playwright (born 1952)}}
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'''Iddo Netanyahu''' ({{langx|he|עדו נתניהו}}; born July 24, 1952) is an Israeli physician, author, and playwright. He is the younger brother of [[Benjamin Netanyahu]], the [[Prime Minister of Israel]], and [[Yonatan Netanyahu]], a highly decorated soldier who was killed leading the [[Entebbe raid]], a hostage rescue mission in 1976.

==Biography==
Iddo Netanyahu was born in [[Jerusalem]], the son of Cela (née Segal; 1912–2000) and professor [[Benzion Netanyahu]] (1910–2012), and spent part of his childhood in the United States living in [[Cheltenham Township]], [[Pennsylvania]] where he attended elementary and middle school.<ref>{{cite book|title=Yoni's Last Battle by Iddo Netanyahu }}</ref> His family later returned to Israel, and he attended high school in Jerusalem. After finishing high school, Netanyahu returned to the United States to study at his father's former workplace [[Cornell University]], but in 1973 he put a hold on his studies to fight for Israel in the [[Yom Kippur War]].<ref name=goldsmith>{{cite web|url=http://www.jewishsf.com/content/2-0-/module/displaystory/story_id/17162/edition_id/338/format/html/displaystory.html|title=Netanyahu's brother to speak here on Entebbe hero|accessdate=2009-02-12|last=Goldsmith|first=Aleza|date=November 2, 2001|work=Jewish Bulletin of Northern California}}</ref>

Netanyahu served in [[Sayeret Matkal]] from 1970 to 1973, Israel's top [[special forces]] unit, as did both his brothers. He later returned to Cornell University and finished his undergraduate degree. He went back to Israel and earned an [[Doctor of Medicine|M.D.]] from [[Hebrew University of Jerusalem]] School of Medicine and did post-doctoral training at [[Georgetown University Hospital]], Washington, D.C., and [[Mount Sinai Medical Center]], New York City.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://radiologypartners-idt.com/RPAteam.htm|title=The RPA team|accessdate=2009-02-12|work=Radiology Partners of America|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170923193846/http://radiologypartners-idt.com/RPAteam.htm|archive-date=September 23, 2017|url-status=dead}}</ref> He works part-time as a [[radiology|radiologist]], but dedicates most of his time to writing.

Since 2008, after writing several books, Netanyahu has been concentrating on playwriting. His plays have appeared worldwide, including off-Broadway in New York, Tel Aviv, St. Petersburg, Moscow, and Tashkent, among other cities. His play ''Don Samuel Abravanel'' was awarded the President of Warsaw Prize in 2022.<ref>{{Cite web |date=19 January 2022 |title=Iddo Netanyahu's visit |url=https://1943.pl/en/artykul/iddo-netanyahus-visit/ |access-date=2025-02-24 |website=Warsaw Ghetto Museum |language=en-US}}</ref>

==Personal life==
Netanyahu and his wife Dafna have two children.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Iddo Netanyahu |url=https://jewishmiami.org/news/extra/iddo_netanyahu_bio/ |access-date=2024-03-07 |website=Greater Miami Jewish Federation |language=en}}</ref>

==Published works==
*''The Rescuers'' – published in Hebrew, a collection of short stories.
*''Yoni's Last Battle: The Rescue at Entebbe, 1976'' (2002) – Later re-released as ''Entebbe: A Defining Moment in the War on Terrorism – The Jonathan Netanyahu Story'', published in Hebrew, English, Russian, Chinese, and Italian.
*''Itamar K.'' – published in Hebrew, Russian and Italian, a novel about music and life, ironic and poetic.
*''Sayeret Matkal at Entebbe'' – published in Hebrew, documents, and interviews about the raid.
*''A Happy End'' – published in Italian, drama, with the title "Un Lieto Fine," and in English by Playscripts, Inc.

==Plays==
*''A Happy End'' - a Jewish family living in Berlin, contemplating the meaning and consequences of the recent rise of the Nazis.
*''Worlds In Collision'' - a battle of the minds between [[Albert Einstein]] and [[Immanuel Velikovsky]].
*''Meaning'' - the relationship between the renowned psychiatrist [[Viktor Frankl]] and a patient of his, against the backdrop of the Holocaust.
*''The Muse'' - a comedy about today's intellectual and artistic trends.
*''Myth -'' the attempts of a widow to fight the falsifications about her late husband.
*''Don Samuel Abravanel -'' the legalistic murder of a Jewish leader in Medieval Spain and its consequences.

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