Iddo Netanyahu

Iddo Netanyahu was born in 1952 in Jerusalem

Iddo Netanyahu was born in Jerusalem in 1952 to Tzila and Benzion Netanyahu, a historian. His family lived at times in the United States and at times in Israel. He went to school in Cheltenham Township, Pennsylvania, and later to the Rehavia Gymnasium in Jerusalem.

He served in Sayeret Matkal from 1970 to 1973, like his two older brothers. He began studies at Cornell University and paused them in 1973 to fight in the Yom Kippur War.

He later finished his undergraduate degree at Cornell and earned a medical degree at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He trained in radiology at Mount Sinai in New York and at Georgetown University in Washington. He works part time as a radiologist.

He wrote books, including a book on the Entebbe rescue. Since 2008 he has focused on writing plays, staged in New York, Tel Aviv, Moscow and other cities. His play Don Samuel Abravanel won the President of Warsaw Prize.

He holds right wing political views and in 2004 signed a petition against the disengagement plan. In 2024 he hosted a weekly show on Galei Israel radio. He is married to Dafna, a lawyer, has 2 children and lives in Kinneret.