{"id":263396,"date":"2026-08-25T02:10:43","date_gmt":"2026-08-25T02:10:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/263396\/"},"modified":"2026-08-25T02:10:43","modified_gmt":"2026-08-25T02:10:43","slug":"netanyahu-says-iran-tried-to-kill-one-of-his-sons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/263396\/","title":{"rendered":"Netanyahu says Iran tried to kill one of his sons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Monday that Iran had attempted to assassinate one of his two sons, without offering further details.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cSomething incredible happened: Iran targeted one of my sons. Iran tried to kill one of my sons,\u201d Netanyahu said during a phone interview with Israel\u2019s Channel 14.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The claim came during a discussion about reports that the Shin Bet domestic security agency had declined to provide a security detail for Gadi Eisenkot, the former army chief who is running neck and neck with Netanyahu ahead of elections on October 27.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Netanyahu voiced support for around-the-clock protection for Eisenkot, saying it was \u201cnot a luxury\u201d.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cWithout that, (the Iranians) will succeed,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Netanyahu has two sons and a daughter. It remains unclear which of his sons was allegedly targeted.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Sara and Benjamin Netanyahu with their sons Yair and Avner. Photo: Sara Netanyahu via Instagram\" data-qa=\"BaseImage-handleRenderImage-StyledImage\" class=\"e1gf69pb2 css-6ikqhs e445x7d0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/41734bc1-46ee-46af-9258-15c9c61c9466_b874cd07.jpg\" title=\"Sara and Benjamin Netanyahu with their sons Yair and Avner. Photo: Sara Netanyahu via Instagram\"\/>Sara and Benjamin Netanyahu with their sons Yair and Avner. Photo: Sara Netanyahu via Instagram<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Monday that Iran had attempted to assassinate one of his two&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":263397,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3],"tags":[327,36807,41,6545,16707,34,37,2412,6539,2289,15240,5995,51,30383],"class_list":["post-263396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-iran","tag-ali-khamenei","tag-amit-segal","tag-benjamin-netanyahu","tag-channel","tag-gadi-eisenkot","tag-iran","tag-israel","tag-israeli","tag-miami","tag-mojtaba-khamenei","tag-shin-bet","tag-telegram","tag-united-states","tag-yair"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/117153721677370111","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=263396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263396\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/263397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}