Editing Benjamin Netanyahu (section)

=== Education ===
Netanyahu returned to the United States in late 1972 to study architecture at the [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology]] (MIT). After briefly returning to Israel to fight in the Yom Kippur War, he returned to the United States and, under the name '''Ben Nitay''', completed a [[Bachelor of Science|bachelor's degree]]<ref name=MITDegrees>{{cite web |url=http://web.mit.edu/registrar/stats/degrees/index.html |title=Enrollment Statistics |publisher=MIT Office of the Registrar |access-date=17 October 2012 |archive-date=8 November 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121108145723/http://web.mit.edu/registrar/stats/degrees/index.html |url-status=live }}</ref> in architecture<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.boston.com/news/education/higher/specials/mit150/mitlist/?page=full|title=The MIT 150: 150 Ideas, Inventions, and Innovators that Helped Shape Our World|work=The Boston Globe|date=15 May 2011|access-date=8 August 2011|archive-date=4 March 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304045200/http://www.boston.com/news/education/higher/specials/mit150/mitlist/?page=full|url-status=live}}</ref> in February 1975 and earned a [[master's degree]]<ref name=MITDegrees /> from the [[MIT Sloan School of Management]] in 1976.<ref>{{Cite web |date=8 February 2019 |title=Who Is Benjamin Netanyahu? |url=https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/benjamin-netanyahu/who-is-benjamin-netanyahu-580010 |access-date=26 November 2024 |website=The Jerusalem Post |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=5 June 1996 |title=Professor recalls Netanyahu&#039;s intense studies in three fields |url=https://news.mit.edu/1996/netanyahu-0605 |access-date=26 November 2024 |website=MIT News {{!}} Massachusetts Institute of Technology |language=en}}</ref> Concurrently, he was studying towards a doctorate<ref name="ball" /> in political science,<ref>Cathy Hartley, David Lea, Paul Cossali, Annamarie Rowe, ''Survey of Arab-Israeli Relations'' (Taylor & Francis, 2004), p. 522</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/2393677.stm |title=Profile: Benjamin Netanyahu |date=20 February 2009 |publisher=BBC News |access-date=9 March 2013 |archive-date=13 May 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130513005346/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/2393677.stm |url-status=live }}</ref> until his studies were broken off by the death of his brother in the [[Entebbe raid]].<ref name="ball" />

At MIT, Netanyahu studied a double-load while simultaneously taking courses at [[Harvard University]], completing his bachelor's degree in architecture in two and a half years, despite taking a break to fight in the Yom Kippur War. Professor Leon B. Groisser at MIT recalled: "He did superbly. He was very bright. Organized. Strong. Powerful. He knew what he wanted to do and how to get it done."<ref name="ball"/>

At that time he changed his name to '''Benjamin''' "'''Ben'''" '''Nitai''' (Nitai, a reference to both [[Mount Nitai]] and to the eponymous Jewish sage [[Nittai of Arbela]], was a pen name often used by his father for articles).<ref name=Gresh>{{cite book |last1=Gresh |first1=Alain |last2=Vidal |first2=Dominique |title=The New A–Z of the Middle East |edition=2nd |year=2004 |publisher=I.B. Tauris |isbn=978-1-86064-326-2 |page=[https://archive.org/details/newazofmiddleeas0000gres/page/217 217] |url=https://archive.org/details/newazofmiddleeas0000gres/page/217 }}</ref> Years later, in an interview with the media, Netanyahu clarified that he decided to do so to make it easier for Americans to pronounce his name. This fact has been used by his political rivals to accuse him indirectly of a lack of Israeli national identity and loyalty.<ref>{{cite book |last=Ariel |first=Mira |title=Pragmatics and Grammar |series=Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics |year=2008 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-0-521-55018-5}}</ref>

In 1976, Netanyahu's older brother [[Yonatan Netanyahu]] was killed. Yonatan was serving as the commander of Benjamin's former unit, the Sayeret Matkal, and died during the [[counter-terrorism]] hostage-rescue mission Operation Thunderbolt in which his unit rescued more than 100 mostly Israeli hostages hijacked by terrorists and flown to the [[Entebbe International Airport|Entebbe Airport]] in Uganda.