# Benjamin Netanyahu birth chart without a confirmed time

> Benjamin Netanyahu's birth chart for October 21, 1949, Tel Aviv: the time exists only as astrologers' versions, rated C, so the chart is cast for noon.

URL: https://kb.astroway.info/en/people/benjamin-netanyahu

Birth data: 1949-10-21, unknown, Tel Aviv, Israel; Rodden rating C.

Benjamin Netanyahu was born on October 21, 1949, in Tel Aviv and became the first Israeli prime minister born after the state's founding. No reliable birth time exists, so the chart is cast for noon. Its most visible feature is a cluster in Libra, where the Moon also was that day.

## What is known and what is not

The CNN fact sheet, the Center for Israel Education chronicle and Wikidata all give October 21, 1949, Tel Aviv. No source names the hospital, so the coordinates are for the city centre.

We found no document with the hour, and could not search the text of his memoir "Bibi: My Story" (2022). Every version reaches us through astrologers:

- 10:30: Astro-Databank's main entry, flagged "accuracy in question". Its notes give it as the approximate time from which astrologer Isaac Starkman rectified the chart; where 10:30 itself comes from is not stated;
- 10:15: Starkman's rectified result, quoted by both Astro-Databank and Astrotheme;
- 09:30: from Tel Aviv astrologer Micha Velner via Selma Schejpel, with Jerusalem as the place, which contradicts every biography;
- 10:45: the time given by astrologer Jane Statlander in The Mountain Astrologer (October 1996), with no stated source;
- October 19, 11:45: a different date from astrologer Dalia Stupp, who said she had it from Netanyahu himself, known only as retold by Noel Tyl. Every documentary source gives October 21, so we do not accept it.

All of these times give a Sagittarius Ascendant, from its first degree at 09:30 to its last in the October 19 version. But they are estimates and rectifications, not a record, so the [Rodden rating](/en/methodology#rodden) is C and none is the main time.

The chart is cast for 12:00 Israel Daylight Time (UTC+3); that year Israel kept summer time until November 1. It has no houses, Ascendant or MC (more on [charts without a birth time](/en/methodology#unknown-time)). The Moon's degree is left out, but its sign is certain: it stayed in Libra all day.

## A stellium in Libra

The Sun at 27°37′ Libra, Mercury at 9°43′ Libra and Neptune at 15°23′ Libra form a [stellium](/en/aspects/patterns/stellium), and with the Moon in the same sign that makes four bodies in Libra. Tradition links Libra with negotiation, diplomacy and a search for a balance of forces. In the classical scheme the Sun is in its fall in Libra, and its will works through alliances and bargains rather than direct pressure.

Neptune stays in Libra for a whole generation, so what makes it personal is its contacts. Here Saturn at 15°23′ Virgo forms a semisextile to Neptune with an orb of 0°00′, the tightest aspect in the chart.

## Sun sextile Mars

The tightest major aspect joins the Sun at 27°37′ Libra and Mars at 26°45′ Leo: a [sextile](/en/aspects/sextile) with an orb of 0°52′. Both sit late in their signs. Tradition treats the sextile as an angle of opportunity, here linking Libra's taste for deal-making with the drive to lead that the classic reading gives Mars in Leo.

The Sun also squares Jupiter at 24°00′ Capricorn with an orb of 3°37′, a contact read as large ambitions that need firm limits.

## The nodal axis, Neptune and Pluto

The North Node at 16°41′ Aries stands in [opposition](/en/aspects/opposition) to Neptune with an orb of 1°17′, which puts Neptune almost on the South Node in Libra. Pluto at 17°59′ Leo trines the North Node with an orb of 1°18′, and Neptune and Pluto are sextile each other with an orb of 2°36′.

Modern astrology reads the nodal axis as a direction of growth: the North Node in Aries points toward independent action, the South Node in Libra toward a familiar reliance on partners and compromise. Neptune on the South Node strengthens the theme of ideals and convictions, and Pluto's trine to the North Node gives the chosen direction persistence.

## Venus in Sagittarius

Venus rules Libra, so its placement matters for the whole stellium. Venus at 12°28′ Sagittarius [squares](/en/aspects/square) Saturn with an orb of 2°55′ and sextiles Neptune with the same orb of 2°55′. The Sun and Venus form a semisquare with an orb of 0°09′. Astrologers read a Venus-Saturn square as caution in attachments, and Venus in Sagittarius as an attraction to broad ideas.

## Events often compared with the chart

- June 18, 1996: Netanyahu is sworn in as prime minister for the first time, heading Israel's 27th government.
- October 23, 1998: signs the Wye River Memorandum with Yasser Arafat.
- March 31, 2009: becomes prime minister for a second time.
- July 20, 2019: becomes the longest-serving leader in Israel's history, passing David Ben-Gurion.
- January 28, 2020: formally indicted on charges of bribery, fraud and breach of trust; the trial is not covered here.
- June 13, 2021: leaves office after the Knesset approves Naftali Bennett's government.
- December 29, 2022: sworn in as prime minister again.

These dates are given as starting points for your own work with transits. We do not make predictions about the health, court cases or future elections of living people.