Yair Netanyahu is the 26-year-old son of Prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu. He lives in Israel. ^[undefined]

Yair was born and raised in Jerusalem. ^[undefined] He is the son of Sara and Ben Netanyahu. He has one younger brother, Avener, and one older sister, Noa Netanyahu-Roth. Growing up, he wanted to be an actor and attended High School for the Arts majoring in theater. ^[undefined] Yair served in the Israel Defense Forces in the spokesman's office. After his service, he became a student at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem where he studied international relations and was part of his school's Lukid Lavi movement. ^[undefined] In 2014, Yair was dating a non-Jewish Norwegian woman named Sandra Leikanger. ^[undefined] Yair has been described as far-right and having increasing influence with his father. ^[undefined]

On September 9th, Yair reposted a meme on his Facebook profile a meme that depicts George Soros running the world. In the meme, Soros is dangling the earth by a fishing pole in front of a reptilian creature who is dangling an alchemical symbol in front a figure reminiscent of the anti-semetic "happy merchant" meme. The other figures in the chain are former Prime Minister Ehud Barak, anti-Netanyahu protest leader Eldad Yaniv and Meni Naftali.

Ex-KKK leader David Duke tweeted in support of Yair while Andrew Anglin of the The Daily Stormer called Yair "a total bro." ^[undefined] After Haaretz published a report about his meme, Yair Netanyahu dismissed the claim that he is anti-Semitic and accused the newspaper of being exactly that. ^[1]