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Benjamin Netanyahu

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Benjamin "Bibi" Netanyahu ( NET-ən-YAH-hoo; Hebrew: בִּנְיָמִין נְתַנְיָהוּ, romanized: Binyamin Netanyahu, pronounced [binjaˈmin netanˈjahu] ; born 21 October 1949) is an Israeli politician who has been serving as the prime minister of Israel since 2022, having previously held the office from 1996 to 1999 and again from 2009 to 2021. He is the chairman of the Likud party. Netanyahu is the longest-serving prime minister in the country's history, having served for a total of over 16 years. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Benjamin Netanyahu has received more than 18,245,811 page views. His biography is available in 117 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 108 in 2019). Benjamin Netanyahu is the 139th most popular politician (up from 648th in 2019), the 19th most popular biography from Israel (up from 38th in 2019) and the 5th most popular Israeli Politician.

Netanyahu is most famous for being the Prime Minister of Israel.

Memorability Metrics

  • 18M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 79.56

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 117

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 8.35

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 5.48

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Page views of Benjamin Netanyahus by language

Over the past year Benjamin Netanyahu has had the most page views in the with 6,103,201 views, followed by Arabic (659,706), and French (644,060). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Indonesian (802.25%), Romanian (732.43%), and Turkish (600.00%)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Benjamin Netanyahu ranks 139 out of 19,576Before him are John Major, Herod the Great, Isabella I of Castile, Murad II, Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor, and David Ben-Gurion. After him are Bernie Sanders, Skanderbeg, Bayezid II, Sun Yat-sen, Simón Bolívar, and Al Gore.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1949, Benjamin Netanyahu ranks 2Before him is Pablo Escobar. After him are António Guterres, Caitlyn Jenner, Haruki Murakami, Niki Lauda, Meryl Streep, Pedro Almodóvar, Mark Knopfler, Bernard Arnault, Lech Kaczyński, and Anna Wintour.

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In Israel

Among people born in Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu ranks 19 out of 466Before him are Jonah (-850), Ariel Sharon (1928), Yitzhak Rabin (1922), Isaiah (-800), Saul (-1079), and Herod the Great (-73). After him are Baldwin IV of Jerusalem (1161), Judas Iscariot (50), Bartholomew the Apostle (-100), Thomas the Apostle (1), Ezekiel (-621), and Salome (14).

Among POLITICIANS In Israel

Among politicians born in Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu ranks 5Before him are Mahmoud Abbas (1935), Ariel Sharon (1928), Yitzhak Rabin (1922), and Herod the Great (-73). After him are Baldwin IV of Jerusalem (1161), Moshe Dayan (1915), Herod Antipas (-20), Rehoboam (-972), Sibylla, Queen of Jerusalem (1160), Amin al-Husseini (1895), and Jeroboam (-1000).