By SCM REPORTER
LONDON -:THE ISRAELI Prime Minister’s youngest son has been forced to slash the price of his luxury Oxford bolthole after it failed to sell for nine months, SCM can reveal.
Avner Netanyahu, 30, has knocked a whopping £120,000 off the asking price for his three-bedroom apartment in a posh area of the university city.
The move comes after the PM’s son reportedly tried to hide his world-famous identity by using a secret alias to buy the property.
Avner snapped up the fancy pad in 2022 using the surname ‘Segal’—his grandmother’s maiden name. He later claimed the cloak-and-dagger name change was a security measure, fearing that he would be targeted by extremists in the UK if his true lineage was known.
In a move that sparked controversy, he allegedly suggested he feared he would be “stabbed” by Muslims in Britain if they discovered he was the son of the Israeli leader.
But despite the high-security precautions and the “Segal” alias, the property market has proved a tougher opponent than expected.
The flat was originally listed in February with a hefty price tag of £620,000. But after failing to shift the property, Israeli business paper Calcalist reports that the price has been butchered by nearly 20 per cent.
The new asking price of £500,000 means the PM’s son is now looking at a loss of around £2,500 on the initial investment.
While his father, Benjamin “Bibi” Netanyahu, 75, deals with the heat of Middle Eastern politics and a mounting domestic crisis in Israel, his son appears to be feeling a different kind of pressure in the cooling British housing market.
Unlike his outspoken older brother Yair, who is often seen as a firebrand on social media, Avner Netanyahu has traditionally kept a lower profile.
He moved to the UK to pursue his studies at Oxford University several years ago.
His decision to adopt the name “Segal” was seen by some as a genuine security precaution given his father’s polarizing status, but his comments regarding the threat level in the UK caused a stir among community leaders.
Avner has largely stayed out of the political spotlight, focusing instead on his academic career and personal life, but the sale of his British assets will likely fuel rumors that the Netanyahu family is consolidating their interests closer to home as tensions in Israel continue to boil.
