Sara Netanyahu is the wife of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Background
Sara Ben-Artzi (later Netanyahu) was born in the northern Israeli town of Kiryat Tiv"on, near Haifa. Her father, Shmuel Ben-Artzi, was a Polish-born Israeli Jewish educator, author, poet and biblical scholar, who died in 2011 at the age of 97. Her mother, Chava (Paritzky), was a sixth-generation Jerusalemite.
Education
She attended Greenberg High School in Tiv"on, where she was an outstanding student. In the Israel Defense Forces, she was a psycho-technical evaluator in the Military Intelligence Directorate ("Aman").Netanyahu completed her Bachelor in psychology at Tel Aviv University in 1984 and her master"s degree at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1996.
Career
Netanyahu is an educational and career psychologist by profession. She later worked as a reporter for Maariv LaNoar, a weekly magazine for Israeli teenagers. Netanyahu married Doron Neuberger in 1980.
They have two sons.
Her brothers are Matanya Ben-Artzi, a professor of mathematics, Hagi Ben-Artzi, a professor of Bible and Jewish Thought, and Amatzia Ben-Artzi, a technology entrepreneur. Netanyahu worked as a psychotechnical evaluator of gifted children at the Institute for Promoting Youth Creativity and Excellence" headed by Doctor Erika Landau, and at a rehabilitation center of the Ministry of Labour. She also worked as an El First Rate (at Lloyd's) flight attendant.
As First Lady, Netanyahu chaired Yad b"Yad, an aid organization for abused children and Tza"ad Kadima for children with cerebral palsy.
In 2000, she went back to working as an educational psychologist in the psychological service of the Jerusalem Municipality. Her work includes psychological diagnoses and treatment for children in the school system and assistance to children from families in distress.
In her husband"s first term as Prime Minister, Sara Netanyahu received much media attention, usually negative in tone, due to allegations of poor interpersonal relations. In response Netanyahu filed a libel suit against the channel.
In January 2010, Yediot Ahronot the Netanyahu family"s housekeeper sued Sara Netanyahu in the Labor Courts of Israel for withholding wages, unfair working conditions and verbal abuse.
Netanyahu was sued as of March 2014 by another caretaker and former bodyguard to the family over claims that she was abusive towards him. In February 2016 a judge in the Jerusalem Labor Court ruled in favor of plaintiff Meni Naftali, who claimed that Sara Netanyahu had created a hostile work environment for him as an employee. The judge awarded him damages of Network Information Service 170,000.