Sara Netanyahu is the wife of former Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu. By profession, she is an educational and career psychologist.
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 96. Her mother, Chava (née Paritzky; 1922–2003), was a sixth-generation Jerusalemite.
She attended Greenberg High School in Kiryat Tiv’on, where she was an outstanding student.
She later worked as a reporter for Maariv LaNoar, a weekly magazine for Israeli teenagers. In the Israel Defense Forces, she was a psycho-technical evaluator in the Department of Behavioral Sciences of the Military Intelligence Directorate (“Aman”).
Sara completed a BA in psychology at Tel Aviv University in 1984 and her master’s degree at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1996.
She married Doron Neuberger in 1980. The couple divorced in 1987.
In 1991, she married Benjamin Netanyahu. They have two sons, Yair and Avner. In 2010, her son Avner won the International Bible Contest on the national level and came in third place on the international level.