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Nathan Mileikowsky (Hebrew: נתן מיליקובסקי; August 15, 1879 – February 4, 1935) was a Zionist political activist, rabbi, and writer. Mileikowsky's son was the scholar and academic Benzion Netanyahu, and his grandson is current Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Biography
Jul 29, 2021 · Milikowsky was a Jewish-American businessman who allegedly gave Netanyahu $300,000 in illicit gifts and was involved in his corruption cases. He passed away at 78 and was praised by Netanyahu as a wise and kind relative.
Netanyahu's paternal grandfather was Nathan Mileikowsky, a leading Zionist rabbi and JNF fundraiser. Netanyahu's older brother, Yonatan , was killed in Uganda during Operation Entebbe in 1976. His younger brother, Iddo , is a radiologist and writer.
Jul 28, 2021 · Former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's cousin Nathan Milokowsky, a businessman entangled in the former premier's corruption cases, has died, Netanyahu said Wednesday on Twitter.
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Benzion Mileikowsky (later Netanyahu) was born in Warsaw in partitioned Poland, which was under Russian control, to Sarah (Lurie) and the writer and Zionist activist Nathan Mileikowsky. Nathan was a rabbi who toured Europe and the United States, making speeches supporting Zionism. After Nathan took the family to Mandate Palestine (aliyah) in 1920, ...
Benzion Netanyahu studied medieval history at Hebrew University in Jerusalem. During his studies, he became active in Revisionist Zionism, a movement of people who had split from their mainstream Zionist counterparts, believing those in the mainstream were too conciliatory to the British authorities governing Palestine, and espousing a more militan...
Having previously struggled to fit into Israeli academia without success, perhaps for a combination of personal and political reasons, Netanyahu nonetheless continued his academic activities upon his return to Israel. Though he still was unable to join the faculty of the Hebrew University, his mentor Joseph Klausner recommended him to be one of the...
Netanyahu died on April 30, 2012, in his Jerusalemhome, at the age of 102. He was survived by two of his sons, seven grandchildren and 12 great-grandchildren.
Netanyahu and his family are portrayed in Joshua Cohen's novel The Netanyahus: An Account of a Minor and Ultimately Even Negligible Episode in the History of a Very Famous Family(New York Review Books, 2021), set in upstate New York in 1959–60. The novel won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2022.
Don Isaac Abravanel: Statesman and philosopher, 1953. Ithaca, 1998; The Jewish Publication Society, 2001.Jun 2, 2024 · Genealogy for Rabbi Zionist Nathan Halevi Mileikowsky, Halevi (1879 - 1935) family tree on Geni, with over 260 million profiles of ancestors and living relatives.
Dec 17, 2015 · (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90) Mileikowsky, Netanyahu’s grandfather, was born in 1879 in the Russian Empire, became a Zionist activist in his teens and gave traveling lectures promoting a return...
