Yair Netanyahu, the eldest son of the Israeli prime minister, has changed his name over the past year and a half and is now registered with the Israeli authorities under the name “Yonatan Han,” as the Netanyahu family name has become internationally reviled over genocide and other atrocities.

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Israeli newspaper Haaretz reported that the change was uncovered through Israeli tax authority records, which list the new name alongside his identification number.

According to the report, tax-withholding certificates issued in December 2024 were still registered under his previous name, Yair Netanyahu.

This year, however, the same identification number appeared under the name “Yonatan Han,” with a fictional address listed as “Balfour 0.”

The reported name change comes as Benjamin Netanyahu faces mounting political, legal, and diplomatic pressure amid growing international condemnation over Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza.

Yair Netanyahu has also come under scrutiny over his business ties in the United States and a series of controversies involving the family’s relationships with wealthy individuals.

In 2018, Israeli television aired a recording in which Yair appeared to boast outside a strip club that his father had helped advance a multibillion-dollar natural gas deal benefiting a wealthy tycoon.

He has also been linked to a number of business ventures in the United States, including within far-right circles.

Benjamin Netanyahu himself is facing three corruption cases in the occupied territories.

The Israeli prime minister is also the subject of an International Criminal Court (ICC) arrest warrant over war crimes and crimes against humanity committed during Israel’s genocidal war on the besieged Gaza Strip. 

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