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How dominant is Netanyahu’s son in his father’s campaign?

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s son Yair seems to be extremely involved in his father’s election campaign, stirring it in his aggressive and insulting style.
JERUSALEM, ISRAEL - JANUARY 22: (ISRAEL OUT) Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu watches his son Yair Netanyahu cast his ballot with by wife Sara Netanyahu at a polling station on election day on January 22, 2013 in Jerusalem, Israel. Israel's general election voting has begun today as polls show Netanyahu is expected to return to office with a narrow majority. (Photo by Uriel Sinai/Getty Images)
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The name of Yair Netanyahu, the prime minister’s son, has been associated in recent years with countless scandals. We don’t have room to enumerate them all here, but in order to get to know the personality in question, the following are some of the headlines for Yair — the son who is firing in every direction and drawing fire in return.

In September 2017, he shared a caricature with anti-Semitic symbols and motifs in order to attack former Prime Minister Ehud Barak, and he received a warm embrace from the American neo-Nazi site the Daily Stormer. On the memorial day in November 2018 for the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin, he shared the following post: “24,000 Israeli war casualties — one memorial day. Six million victims of the Holocaust — one memorial day. Rabin’s assassination — 10 memorial days.”

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