A common mistake in the news media who are often ignorant of almost all things religious in the last 40 years. As for the “Bible”, a latin-based word meaning book, is not used by any Jewish people I know; and they don’t call it the Old Testament either, they call it the Tanakh, with their primary focus on the main book which they refer to in general as the Torah. And yes, they are referred to as The Scriptures, comprised of three main books, the Torah, the Neviim and the Ketuvim (a combined 39 books). Those are the books that Joshua (Jesus) studied and Mr. Netanyahu and his family I would think. As for the Christian “Bible” containing the original Jewish Scriptures, yes and then some, including the new testament (a term created by Christians, separating the original Hebrew books pre-Jesus, from those written by the apostles and disciples) contains a total of 29 additional books, for a total of 66 books. As for being pejorative, I wasn’t sure that was the case, given my opening comment. But then again, was it not the truth that Mr. Netanyahu would be studying the Tanakh, and not the Bible whose generally understood meaning within the Western world is both the Old and New Testaments?
You are incorrect. English speaking Jews indeed refer to the Tenakh as “the Bible.”