Personal Life
In September 1981, Netzer traveled to Lebanon to visit his father, intending to continue afterwards to Israel. When the Lebanon War broke out, he became stranded there until the fighting subsided. In August 1983, he hired a taxi that brought him to the Lebanon-Israel border, where he crossed into Israel. While settling in Israel, he studied Hebrew language and Judaism at several kibbutzim, and changed his last name to Netzer. In May 1985, he moved to Ofra, an Israeli settlement in the West Bank, where he currently resides. There he met and fell in love with Elana Joseph. They married and have five children.
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