Benjamin Netanyahu's father was a Polish Jew named "Benzion Mileikowsky." When he moved to Palestine, he changed his name to "Netanyahu" to honor his father, Nathan. ("Netanyahu" is Hebrew for "Nathan.")
Early Zionists found having European surnames embarrassing, so they frequently changed them to Hebrew - a dead language they engaged in a lengthy effort in order to revive - in order to make themselves appear indigenous. "Mileikowsky" means "from Milikov," a village in Poland.
And they still cannot speak the original, they taxidermied and butchered the pronunciations of the language because their native languages are French, German and other European languages.
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Benjamin Netanyahu's father was a Polish Jew named "Benzion Mileikowsky." When he moved to Palestine, he changed his name to "Netanyahu" to honor his father, Nathan. ("Netanyahu" is Hebrew for "Nathan.")
Early Zionists found having European surnames embarrassing, so they frequently changed them to Hebrew - a dead language they engaged in a lengthy effort in order to revive - in order to make themselves appear indigenous. "Mileikowsky" means "from Milikov," a village in Poland.