Intelligence: Netanyahu’s son returned from USA due to threat

Israel’s domestic intelligence agency has confirmed that a son of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had to return from the United States because of an acute threat. “In fact, there was significant danger to Yair Netanyahu,” Shin Bet said in a statement. “Due to this threat and after an assessment of the situation, it was decided to urgently return him to Israel together with his security team.”

However, the secret service did not comment on Iran’s alleged murder plans against one of his sons, which Benjamin Netanyahu had recently spoken about. The US broadcaster Newsmax had reported that 35-year-old Yair Netanyahu was the target of an Iranian assassination plot late last year.

The Israeli secret service found out about this last December and informed the US authorities, the broadcaster reported, citing a person close to US law enforcement. Accordingly, Iranian agents were already “on site” in Miami and were monitoring Yair’s residence and his movements.

The prime minister’s son, who was constantly accompanied by an Israeli security team, was then ordered to leave the place immediately, the source said. He left without taking his personal belongings with him and immediately returned to Israel, where he now lives. The Secretary General of the Iranian Security Council recently threatened Israel’s head of government with death. “We will send Benjamin Netanyahu, the prime minister of the Zionist regime, to hell,” Mohsen Rezaei said in an interview on state television on Thursday evening.

By Editor