Netanyahu’s Speech Before Congress Echoes Deep US Roots

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has a deep bond with the United States and Americans. And as he prepares to give a controversial speech to the U.S. Congress in Washington on Tuesday, he knows the halls of political power in America as well many home-bred U.S. politicos. The man nicknamed “Bibi” was born in Tel Aviv in 1949. But seven years later, his father brought the family to the suburbs of Philadelphia. Professor Ben-zion Netanyahu, a Jewish historian and staunch...

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