Thanks. He was close enough to be in my phone directory in the early 1970s. I never knew of him until politics, and thought he was a double major but this says he was a triple major:
news.mit.edu
The election of Benjamin Netanyahu as Israel's next prime minister cast
MIT, and his student days here, into the headlines.
Mr. Netanyahu, who went by the surname Nitay while an MIT student, was
at the Institute from September 1972 to May 1976. He proved very much to
be a young man in a hurry as he earned two degrees-in architecture and
management-and was on his way to a doctorate in political science before
ending his studies abruptly to return to Israel in June 1976. That
followed the death of his older brother, Yonatan, in a commando raid
that freed passengers on a hijacked plane in Entebbe, Uganda.
It also marked the beginning of his career in politics.
"He made it clear that he didn't have four years to get an undergraduate
degree," said Professor Emeritus Leon B. Groisser of the Department of
Architecture, recalling the day Mr. Netanyahu showed up in his office as
a 23-year-old freshman and Israeli war veteran.
"He didn't say it with bravado," said Professor Groisser, who served as
Mr. Netanyahu's faculty advisor. "He said it as fact. He proceeded to
overload and he did very well."
Mr. Netanyahu, the son of a Cornell University professor, had spent most
of his teenage years in the United States. He returned to Israel for
army duty, serving five years in an elite commando unit and reached the
rank of captain, before coming to MIT.
Just a year after beginning his studies at MIT, in October 1973, he
returned to Israel for military service when war broke out in the Middle
East and did not return to MIT until mid-November, a span of 40 days. He
made up his missing course work during the January break. |
