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Sara Netanyahu (née Sara Ben-Artzi; born November 5, 1958, in Kiryat Tiv'on, near Haifa) is an educational and career psychologist who served in the Israel Defense Forces as a psycho-technical evaluator in the Department of Behavioral Sciences of the Military Intelligence Directorate (Aman). She earned a BA in psychology from Tel Aviv University in 1984 and a master's degree from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1996. She was previously married to Doron Neuberger and has been married to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu since 1991; the couple has two sons. As the spouse of the Prime Minister, a role she has held for multiple terms including the current one, she is regarded as an influential figure in his personal and political life.