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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 627

Yair Netanyahu

Yair Netanyahu attends an event after the release of first voting results in the Israeli general elections, at the Likud party headquarters in Tel Aviv, on September 18, 2019. (Gili Yaari/Flash90)
May 1, 2025, 12:44 am
PM’s firebrand son baselessly suggests Israeli left to blame for major blazes
Yair Netanyahu claims the fires are ‘suspicious’ because ‘the Kaplanist left has been frantically trying in recent weeks to cancel Independence Day celebrations’
By ToI Staff
Tissues and a lighter found in the possession of a man suspected of helping ignite the fire raging near Jerusalem, April 30, 2025. (Israel Police)
April 30, 2025, 8:11 pm
Arson suspect arrested as authorities probe whether massive fires were started on purpose
Police apprehend East Jerusalem man with lighter, cotton wool, flammable materials; right-wing officials urge West Bank lockdown amid Palestinian social media calls to start blazes
By Charlie Summers and ToI Staff
Hostage Rom Braslavski speaks in a propaganda video published by the Palestinian Islamic Jihad on April 16, 2025. (Screenshot/Telegram)
April 16, 2025, 7:41 pm
‘Get me out of here’: Palestinian Islamic Jihad airs video of hostage Rom Braslavski
Mother says ‘he’s aged 10 years’; says they heard about video from media: PM’s son ‘is drinking margarita on Miami beach while my son is underground, and he doesn’t have time to update me?’
By ToI Staff and Nurit Yohanan
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) greets French President Emmanuel Macron before a meeting in Jerusalem on October 24, 2023. (Christophe Ena/Pool/AFP)
April 15, 2025, 5:23 pm
Netanyahu tells Macron a Palestinian state would be ‘huge prize for terror’
French president urges PM to renew aid to Gaza and end the war, in phone call 3 days after premier’s son swore online at Macron for planning to recognize Palestinian statehood
By ToI Staff
Yair Netanyahu (Left) in Tel Aviv on January 23, 2020 (Aleksey Nikolskyi/Sputnik Kremlin Pool Photo via AP, File); Emmanuel Macron in Paris on April 3, 2025 (Mohammed Badra, Pool via AP).
April 13, 2025, 9:36 pm
‘Screw you!’: Netanyahu’s son lashes out at Macron; PM objects to language, echoes critique
Yair Netanyahu assails president for saying France would soon unilaterally recognize a Palestinian state; PM rejects his son’s turn of phrase, but endorses the message
By AFP and ToI Staff
Composite image shows Shin Bet chief Ronen Bar (left) and Prime Minister-designate Benjamin Netanyahu. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90; Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
March 21, 2025, 6:42 am
‘Official,’ said to be PM, pushes conspiracy theory Bar knew about Hamas attack but didn’t act
Netanyahu has hitherto refrained from directly peddling unfounded claim about Oct. 7; PM’s son on Shin Bet chief: ‘Did he and his friends in the deep state forget who is in power in America!?!’
By Lazar Berman and ToI Staff
MK Naama Lazimi (left) attends a Women and Gender Equality committee meeting at the Knesset, in Jerusalem on January 27, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90); Yair Netanyahu arrives for a court hearing in Tel Aviv, on November 29, 2022. (Avshalom Sassoni/ Flash90)
February 23, 2025, 4:25 pm
MK claims Netanyahu’s son was sent abroad for hitting PM; Likud: ‘A despicable lie’
Democrats lawmaker Naama Lazimi insists it was physical assault that led Yair Netanyahu to move to a luxury condo in Miami
By ToI Staff
'It's a big place, nobody uses it,' says character Renee Corliss, played by Rita Moreno, of her suggestion to move the Palestinians to Greenland, in the second-season finale of NBC's 'The Golden Girls,' aired May 16, 1987. (Screen capture: NBC, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
February 8, 2025, 9:20 am
4 decades before Trump, ‘Golden Girls’ mulled Greenland for Palestinians
Scene apparently solved Middle East crisis in 1987 by combining two of the US president’s most shocking foreign policy gambits on a call to a 2 a.m. radio show: ‘Nobody’s using it’
By PHILISSA CRAMER
Yair Netanyahu arrives for a court hearing in Tel Aviv, on November 29, 2022. (Avshalom Sassoni/ Flash90)
January 28, 2025, 6:37 pm
Yair Netanyahu to pay further damages to ex-MK after pulling libel loss appeal
Judge adds court fees to amount prime minister’s son was already ordered to pay former lawmaker Stav Shaffir over series of offensive tweets; she declares ‘another victory’
By ToI Staff
Sara Netanyahu, wife of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, attends a plenary session of the opening day of the Knesset's winter session, in Jerusalem, October 28, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/ Flash90)
December 20, 2024, 2:49 pm
Sara Netanyahu said to have ordered protest against neighbors whose pilot son died in war
Texts quoted in TV report also show PM’s wife, son ordering late secretary to dig up dirt on premier’s rivals, intimidate key actors in his graft cases, sic police on protesters
By ToI Staff
Shin Bet chief Ronen Bar at a state ceremony marking the Hebrew anniversary of the Hamas October 7 attack, at Mount Herzl military cemetery in Jerusalem on October 27, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/ FLASH90)
November 19, 2024, 11:21 am
Netanyahu’s office denies reports he is planning to fire Shin Bet chief
PM reportedly seeking to dismiss Ronen Bar after flares fired at his home and amid investigations into document leaks, accusing Shin Bet of failing to protect him and his family
By ToI Staff
File: Yair Netanyahu, son of prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, arrives for a court hearing in a defamation lawsuit filed by former MK Stav Shaffir in Tel Aviv, on November 29, 2022. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)
November 11, 2024, 1:21 pm
Yair Netanyahu accuses Shin Bet of trying to overthrow his father, torturing IDF troops
Premier’s outspoken son says probes into allegations of misconduct at Prime Minister’s Office are ‘blood libel and gaslighting,’ accuses security services of attempted coup
By ToI Staff
Benjamin Netanyahu during a visit to the southern Israeli city of Ashdod, January 12, 2009, from "The Bibi Files." (Jigsaw Pictures)
September 10, 2024, 2:13 pm
Revealing leaked police footage, new film aims brutal lens at Netanyahu amid war
‘The Bibi Files,’ a scathing documentary, incorporates material from corruption probe to present sobering insight into the prime minister’s actions and character
By Robert Sarner
Yair Netanyahu, son of prime minister-designate Benjamin Netanyahu arrives for a court hearing in the defamation lawsuit filed by former MK Stav Shafir in Tel Aviv, on November 29, 2022. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)
August 27, 2024, 11:50 pm
PM said seeking increased security for son Yair, claims he could be targeted by Iran
Netanyahu’s office denies he’s looking to boost his son’s security, already estimated to cost NIS 200,000 per month; officials say there’s no credible threat to justify doing so
By ToI Staff
View of the Foreign Ministry's Jerusalem headquarters, July 10, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
August 7, 2024, 3:14 pm
Police raid Foreign Ministry over diplomatic passports for Likud bigwigs, PM’s son
Investigators search offices, seize evidence; former foreign minister Eli Cohen reported to have overridden staff to issue documents to individuals who were not eligible for them
By Sam Sokol
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