Who is Benjamin Netanyahu's wife Sara? Everything you need to know about the Israeli Prime Minister's wife

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is conscious and speaking with family after being fully sedated for a hernia operation, the hospital treating him has said.

The 74-year-old's surgery was successful and he is recovering, Hadassah Medical Centre in Jerusalem announced at around 2am local time, though doctors did not immediately specify how long his recovery might take.

But who is his wife Sara? How long have they been in a relationship and do they have any children together? 

Read on below for everything you need to know about Sara Netanyahu. 

Sara Netanyahu, 65, is an educational and career psychologist by profession, but was working as a flight attendant on a flight from New York to Israel when the pair first met.

The pair married each other in 1991, and have two sons together, Yair, 32, and Avner, 29, but their relationship would be rocked in 1993, when Benjamin admitted live on television that he had an affair with Ruth Bar, his public relations advisor

Who is Benjamin Netanyahu's wife Sara? 

Sara Netanyahu, 65, was born in the northern Israeli town of Kiryat Tiv'on, near the city of Haifa. 

Her father, Shmuel, was a Polish-born Israeli Jewish educator, author, poet and biblical scholar, who died in 2011 at the age of 96. Her mother, Chava, was a sixth-generation Jerusalemite. 

Sara also has three brothers, Matanya, a professor of mathematics, Hagai, a professor of Bible and Jewish Thought, and Amatzia, a technology entrepreneur. 

The trio have all previously been crowned champions of the Israel Bible Contest, which is a school quiz competition relating to around 400 chapters of the Bible. 

She is an educational and career psychologist by profession, but was working as a flight attendant on a flight from New York to Israel when the pair first met. 

She became Benjamin's third wife when the couple married each other in 1991, and they have two sons together, Yair, 32, and Avner, 29. 

However, their relationship would be rocked in 1993, when Benjamin admitted live on television that he had an affair with Ruth Bar, his public relations advisor. 

He said that a political rival had planted a secret video camera that had recorded him in a sexually compromising position with Bar, and that he had been threatened with the release of the tape to the press unless he quit the Likud leadership race. 

Netanyahu and Sara repaired their marriage, and he was elected to the leadership of Likud.

In 1996, the media reported that he had a 20-year friendship with Katherine Price-Mondadori, an Italian-American woman

What controversies has Sara Netanyahu been involved in?

In 2015, reports surfaced that Sara had ordered catered meals and charged the Israeli government nearly $100,000 in expenses when the Prime Minister's Office already employed a dedicated chef

Netanyahu has been the subject of intense public interest, having been involved in a number of legal disputes over the years. 

In 2002, she won a libel case filed against Schocken publishers for falsely maligning her, as well as a libel suit against Israeli newspaper Kol Ha'ir, after two unfounded reports were published about her in the publication's gossip column.

In 2008, Channel 10 reported that when Sara spent a large sum of money on luxuries paid for by a donor in London after travelling to the city with Benjamin for a public diplomacy campaign during the 2006 Lebanon War, to which she responded by filing a libel suit against the channel. 

In 2015, reports surfaced that she had ordered catered meals and charged the Israeli government nearly $100,000 in expenses when the Prime Minister's Office already employed a dedicated chef.

A subsequent police investigation in 2016 recommended that Sara should be indicted for her actions. 

In September 2017, Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit announced that Netanyahu would be charged with ordering meals at the expense of the Israeli state without prior dispensation. 

Sara subsequently signed a plea deal and was convicted of misusing state funds and - while fraud charges were dropped - Sara was still ordered to pay 55,000 NIS (£11,900) to the state.