Iddo Netanyahu is an Israeli physician

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, author

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 and playwright

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. He is the younger brother of Benjamin Netanyahu

Benjamin Netanyahu

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 who is the current Prime Minister of Israel

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 and Yonatan Netanyahu, who was killed leading the Operation Entebbe

Operation Entebbe

Operation Entebbe was a counter-terrorist hostage-rescue mission carried out by the Special Forces of the Israel Defense Forces at Entebbe Airport in Uganda on 4 July 1976. A week earlier, on 27 June, an Air France plane with 248 passengers was hijacked by Palestinian and German terrorists and...

 hostage rescue mission in 1976 and is considered a war hero.

Netanyahu spent part of his childhood in the United States. He left studies at Cornell University

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 in 1973 to fight for Israel in the Yom Kippur War

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. At Cornell, he was pledging the Phi Kappa Psi

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 fraternity and was inducted into the Irving Literary Society

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 before going to war, and accordingly was left on the rolls. He served in Sayeret Matkal

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, Israel's special forces

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 unit, as did both his brothers.

He has an MD

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 from Hebrew University of Jerusalem

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 School of Medicine and did post-doctoral training at Georgetown University Hospital

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, Washington, D.C.

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, and Mount Sinai Medical Center, New York City

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. He works part time as a radiologist at St. James Mercy Hospital in Hornell, New York

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 , and resides most of the year in Israel, devoting his time to writing books and play

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s. He began writing while at Hebrew University. His play A Happy Ending has been produced in Italy by Compagnia dell'Attimo for the European Memorial Day 2008, and subsequently staged in Germany and Israel.

Publications

• The Rescuers - published in Hebrew, a collection of short stories
• Yoni's Last Battle: The Rescue at Entebbe, 1976 (2002) - Later re-released as Entebbe: A Defining Moment On The War On Terrorism - The Jonathan Netanyahu Story, published in Hebrew, English, Russian and Italian
• Itamar K. - published in Hebrew and Russian, a novel about music and life, ironic and poetic.
• Sayeret Matkal at Entebbe - published in Hebrew, documents and interviews about the raid
• A Happy Ending - published in Italian, drama, with the title "Un Lieto Fine", produced first in Italy by Compagnia dell'Attimo, then produced in Germany and Israel.