Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is conscious and speaking with his family after being fully sedated for a hernia operation, the hospital treating him said.
The 74-year-old man’s surgery was successful and he is recovering, Hadassah Medical Center in Jerusalem announced around 2 a.m. local time, although doctors did not immediately specify how long his recovery might take.
But who is his wife Sara? How long have you been in a relationship and do you have children together?
Continue reading below for everything you need to know about Sara Netanyahu.
Sara Netanyahu, 65, is an educational and professional psychologist by profession, but she was working as a flight attendant on a flight from New York to Israel when the couple met.
The couple married in 1991 and have two children together, Yair, 32, and Avner, 29, but their relationship would be shaken in 1993, when Benjamin admitted live on television that he had an affair with Ruth Bar, their relationship. public. tutor
Who is Sara, Benjamin Netanyahu’s wife?
Sara Netanyahu, 65, was born in the northern Israeli city of Kiryat Tiv’on, near the city of Haifa.
His father, Shmuel, was a Polish-born Israeli Jewish educator, author, poet, and biblical scholar, who died in 2011 at the age of 96. Her mother, Chava, was a sixth-generation Jerusalemite.
Sara also has three siblings, Matanya, a mathematics teacher, Hagai, a Bible and Jewish Thought teacher, and Amatzia, a technology entrepreneur.
The trio has already been crowned champions of the Israel Bible Quiz, a school contest involving around 400 chapters of the Bible.
She is an educational and professional psychologist by profession, but was working as a flight attendant on a flight from New York to Israel when the couple met.
She became Benjamin’s third wife when the couple married in 1991 and have two sons together, Yair, 32, and Avner, 29 years old.
However, their relationship would be shaken. 1993, when Benjamin admitted live on television that he had had an affair with Ruth Bar, his public relations consultant.
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 releasing the tape to the press unless he dropped out of the Likud leadership race.
Netanyahu and Sara repaired their marriage and he was chosen to lead the Likud.
In 1996, the media reported that he had a 20-year friendship with Katherine Price-Mondadori, an Italian-American woman.
What controversies has Sara Netanyahu been involved in?
In 2015, reports emerged that Sara had ordered prepared meals and charged the Israeli government nearly $100,000 in expenses when the Prime Minister’s Office was already hiring a dedicated chef.
Netanyahu has been the subject of intense public interest, having been involved in a number of legal disputes over the years.
In 2002, she won a defamation case brought against publishers Schocken for falsely slandering her, as well as a defamation suit against the Israeli newspaper Kol Ha’ir, after two unfounded reports about her were published in the publication’s gossip column. .
In 2008, Channel 10 reported that when Sara spent a large sum of money on luxuries paid for by a donor in London after traveling to the city with Benjamin for a public diplomacy campaign during the 2006 Lebanon War, to which she responded by filing a defamation lawsuit. lawsuit against the channel.
In 2015, reports emerged that he had ordered prepared meals and charged the Israeli government nearly $100,000 in expenses when the Prime Minister’s Office was already hiring a dedicated chef.
A subsequent police investigation in 2016 recommended that Sara be prosecuted for her actions.
In September 2017, Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit announced that Netanyahu would be charged with ordering meals at the expense of the State of Israel without prior authorization.
Sara subsequently signed a plea deal and was found guilty of embezzlement of state funds, and although the fraud charges were dropped, Sara was ordered to pay. NIS 55,000 (£11,900) to the State.