Yair Netanyahu Legally Changes Name to Yonatan Hon

Yair Netanyahu, elder son of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, has legally registered his name as Yonatan Hon over roughly the past eighteen months, Israel Tax Authority records show. December 2024 withholding certificates carried the name Yair Netanyahu, while 2025 filings issued to the same identification number recorded the new one. The surname Hon is the original family name of Sara Netanyahu's father Shmuel Ben-Artzi before he Hebraized it, and the Yonatan first name matches the Prime Minister's older brother Lt. Col. Yonatan Netanyahu, killed commanding the 1976 Entebbe rescue. Younger brother Avner previously used the alias Avi Avner Segal to buy property in Britain in 2022, and Prime Minister Netanyahu himself identified as Ben Nitai during his years in the United States.