Mother of former Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu.
Parents:
Father: Binyamin Segal (1866-1923)
Mother: Channa Malka Markus (1870-1953)
Tzila Segal Netanyahu and her husband, Dr. Benzion Netanyahu, had three sons: Yonatan, Benjamin and Iddo, all of whom served in the same elite military commando unit, Sayeret Matkal. Yonatan was killed while commanding the daring 1976 rescue of more than 100 Jewish and Israeli hostages on board an Air France jet in Entebbe, Uganda.
Tzila, a U.S. citizen who was born in 1912 in the town of Petah Tikva east of modern-day Tel Aviv, and whose family settled in Minnesota by way of Lithuania. She insisted that her children learn to speak with an American accent. She drilled them to press their tongue to their teeth when they said "the".
In 1944 Tzila, who had studied law at Gray's Inn, London, married Benzion Netanyahu. From the 1950s to the 70s, the Netanyahus alternated between Israel and the US, with Benzion teaching at Dropsie College, Philadelphia, the University of Denver and Cornell University.
Tzila's niece Dalia noted that Tzila's given name was Tzviya, after her Fraternal grandafather Tzvi Segal, but she changed it (her 4 sisters all changed their given names, too). Tzila was born in Petah-Tikvah shortly after the family's move in 1911 from Minneapolis Minnesota. The Maternal Granparents, Abraham and Hannah-Sarah Markus were already setteld in Rishon L'tzion.
Parents:
Father: Binyamin Segal (1866-1923)
Mother: Channa Malka Markus (1870-1953)
Tzila Segal Netanyahu and her husband, Dr. Benzion Netanyahu, had three sons: Yonatan, Benjamin and Iddo, all of whom served in the same elite military commando unit, Sayeret Matkal. Yonatan was killed while commanding the daring 1976 rescue of more than 100 Jewish and Israeli hostages on board an Air France jet in Entebbe, Uganda.
Tzila, a U.S. citizen who was born in 1912 in the town of Petah Tikva east of modern-day Tel Aviv, and whose family settled in Minnesota by way of Lithuania. She insisted that her children learn to speak with an American accent. She drilled them to press their tongue to their teeth when they said "the".
In 1944 Tzila, who had studied law at Gray's Inn, London, married Benzion Netanyahu. From the 1950s to the 70s, the Netanyahus alternated between Israel and the US, with Benzion teaching at Dropsie College, Philadelphia, the University of Denver and Cornell University.
Tzila's niece Dalia noted that Tzila's given name was Tzviya, after her Fraternal grandafather Tzvi Segal, but she changed it (her 4 sisters all changed their given names, too). Tzila was born in Petah-Tikvah shortly after the family's move in 1911 from Minneapolis Minnesota. The Maternal Granparents, Abraham and Hannah-Sarah Markus were already setteld in Rishon L'tzion.
Mother of former Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu.
Parents:
Father: Binyamin Segal (1866-1923)
Mother: Channa Malka Markus (1870-1953)
Tzila Segal Netanyahu and her husband, Dr. Benzion Netanyahu, had three sons: Yonatan, Benjamin and Iddo, all of whom served in the same elite military commando unit, Sayeret Matkal. Yonatan was killed while commanding the daring 1976 rescue of more than 100 Jewish and Israeli hostages on board an Air France jet in Entebbe, Uganda.
Tzila, a U.S. citizen who was born in 1912 in the town of Petah Tikva east of modern-day Tel Aviv, and whose family settled in Minnesota by way of Lithuania. She insisted that her children learn to speak with an American accent. She drilled them to press their tongue to their teeth when they said "the".
In 1944 Tzila, who had studied law at Gray's Inn, London, married Benzion Netanyahu. From the 1950s to the 70s, the Netanyahus alternated between Israel and the US, with Benzion teaching at Dropsie College, Philadelphia, the University of Denver and Cornell University.
Tzila's niece Dalia noted that Tzila's given name was Tzviya, after her Fraternal grandafather Tzvi Segal, but she changed it (her 4 sisters all changed their given names, too). Tzila was born in Petah-Tikvah shortly after the family's move in 1911 from Minneapolis Minnesota. The Maternal Granparents, Abraham and Hannah-Sarah Markus were already setteld in Rishon L'tzion.
Parents:
Father: Binyamin Segal (1866-1923)
Mother: Channa Malka Markus (1870-1953)
Tzila Segal Netanyahu and her husband, Dr. Benzion Netanyahu, had three sons: Yonatan, Benjamin and Iddo, all of whom served in the same elite military commando unit, Sayeret Matkal. Yonatan was killed while commanding the daring 1976 rescue of more than 100 Jewish and Israeli hostages on board an Air France jet in Entebbe, Uganda.
Tzila, a U.S. citizen who was born in 1912 in the town of Petah Tikva east of modern-day Tel Aviv, and whose family settled in Minnesota by way of Lithuania. She insisted that her children learn to speak with an American accent. She drilled them to press their tongue to their teeth when they said "the".
In 1944 Tzila, who had studied law at Gray's Inn, London, married Benzion Netanyahu. From the 1950s to the 70s, the Netanyahus alternated between Israel and the US, with Benzion teaching at Dropsie College, Philadelphia, the University of Denver and Cornell University.
Tzila's niece Dalia noted that Tzila's given name was Tzviya, after her Fraternal grandafather Tzvi Segal, but she changed it (her 4 sisters all changed their given names, too). Tzila was born in Petah-Tikvah shortly after the family's move in 1911 from Minneapolis Minnesota. The Maternal Granparents, Abraham and Hannah-Sarah Markus were already setteld in Rishon L'tzion.
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