Iddo Netanyahu (born 1952) is an Israeli physician, author and playwright. He is the younger brother of Benjamin Netanyahu who is the current Prime Minister of Israel and Yonatan Netanyahu, who was killed leading the Operation Entebbe hostage rescue mission in 1976 and is considered a war hero.
Netanyahu was born in Jerusalem, and spent part of his childhood in the United States.[1] He left studies at Cornell University in 1973 to fight for Israel in the Yom Kippur War.[2] At Cornell, he was pledging the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity and was inducted into the Irving Literary Society before going to war, and accordingly was left on the rolls. He served in Sayeret Matkal, Israel's special forces unit, as did both his brothers.
He has an MD from Hebrew University of Jerusalem School of Medicine and did post-doctoral training at Georgetown University Hospital, Washington, D.C., and Mount Sinai Medical Center, New York City.[3] He works part time as a radiologist at St. James Mercy Hospital in Hornell, New York [4], and resides most of the year in Israel, devoting his time to writing books and plays. He began writing while at Hebrew University.[2] 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.