Editing Benjamin Netanyahu (section)

=== Marriages and relationships ===
[[File:Flickr - Government Press Office (GPO) - P.M. BENJAMIN NETANYAHU LIGHTING HANUKA CANDLES WITH HIS WIFE AND SONS.jpg|thumb|Netanyahu lighting [[Hanukkah]] [[Menorah (Hanukkah)|candles]] on the first night in the [[Beit Aghion|prime minister's office]] in [[Jerusalem]] with his wife, [[Sara Netanyahu|Sara]] and their sons, [[Yair Netanyahu|Yair]] and [[Avner Netanyahu|Avner]], 1996]]
Netanyahu has been married three times and has been involved in multiple [[Affair|extramarital affairs]]. Netanyahu's first marriage was to Miriam Weizmann, whom he met in Israel. Weizmann lived near Yonatan Netanyahu's apartment in Jerusalem, where Netanyahu was based during his military service. By the time Netanyahu's service was finished, Weizmann had completed her own military service as well as a degree in chemistry from the [[Hebrew University of Jerusalem]]. In 1972, they both left to study in the United States, where she enrolled in [[Brandeis University]], while Netanyahu studied at MIT. They married soon afterward. The couple had one daughter, Noa (born 29 April 1978).<ref name="Haaretz-2009">{{cite news |date=1 October 2009 |title=Mazel Tov Mr. Prime Minister! Netanyahu's first grandson born |url=http://www.haaretz.com/news/mazel-tov-mr-prime-minister-netanyahu-s-first-grandson-born-1.6885 |access-date=16 March 2013 |newspaper=Haaretz}}</ref><ref name="Miskin-2009">{{cite news |last=Miskin |first=Maayana |date=8 October 2009 |title=Photo Essay: Netanyahu's Grandson Named |url=http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/133763 |access-date=16 March 2013 |publisher=Arutz Sheva}}</ref>

In 1978, while Weizmann was pregnant, Netanyahu met a non-Jewish British student named Fleur Cates at the university library, and began an affair. His marriage ended in divorce soon after Miriam discovered the affair. In 1981, Netanyahu married Cates, and she [[conversion to Judaism|converted]] to [[Judaism]].<ref name=star>{{cite magazine |url=http://www.vanityfair.com/news/1996/06/benjamin-netanyahu|title=Star of Zion|first=David|last=Margolick|magazine=Vanity Fair|date=5 June 1996}}</ref> After moving with Netanyahu to Israel, Cates sued for divorce in 1988.<ref name="star" />

His third wife, [[Sara Netanyahu|Sara Ben-Artzi]], was working as a [[flight attendant]] on an [[El Al]] flight from New York to Israel when they met.<ref name=bio/> She was in the process of completing a master's degree in psychology.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.pmo.gov.il/English/PrimeMinister/Pages/PrimeMinistersWife.aspx|title=Mrs. Sara Netanyahu|publisher=Office of the Prime Minister}}</ref> The couple married in 1991. They have two sons: [[Yair Netanyahu|Yair]] (born 26 July 1991), a former soldier in the [[IDF Spokesperson's Unit]],<ref>{{cite news |title=Benjamin Netanyahu's son gets new IDF PR job |first=Li-or |last=Averbach |url=http://www.globes.co.il/serveen/globes/docview.asp?did=1000637256&fid=1725 |newspaper=Globes |date=10 April 2011 |access-date=17 March 2013}}</ref> and [[Avner Netanyahu|Avner]] (born 10 October 1994), a national Bible champion, winner of the National Bible Quiz for Youth in [[Kiryat Shmona]], and former soldier in the IDF [[Combat Intelligence Collection Corps]].<ref>{{cite news|last=Gordon |first=Evelyn |url=http://www.jpost.com/Israel/Article.aspx?id=171175 |title=Netanyahu Jr. wins National Bible Quiz |newspaper=The Jerusalem Post |date=17 March 2010 |access-date=27 October 2011}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.jpost.com/not-just-news/shine-your-shoes-netanyahus-youngest-son-begins-army-service-383308|title=Shine your shoes! Netanyahu's youngest son begins army service|work=The Jerusalem Post}}</ref>

In 1993, Netanyahu confessed on live television to having an affair with Ruth Bar, his public relations adviser. He said that a political rival had planted a secret video camera that had recorded him in a sexually compromising position with Bar, and that he had been threatened with the release of the tape to the press unless he quit the Likud leadership race. Netanyahu and Sara repaired their marriage, and he was elected to the leadership of Likud.<ref>{{cite news |title=The Netanyahus: A colourful partnership |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/693517.stm |publisher=BBC News |date=28 March 2000}}</ref> In 1996, the media reported that he had a 20-year friendship with Katherine Price-Mondadori, an Italian-American woman.<ref>[https://apnews.com/0514d58c98e38d8d7da3baa5bb00ca91 "Who Fired the Prime Minister's Nanny? The Soup Thickens"], by Jack Katzenell, Associated Press, 7 July 1996</ref>