The Begin Doctrine was born exactly 40 years ago, on 7 June 1981, when then-prime minister Menachem Begin sent Israeli fighter planes to bomb the Osirak nuclear reactor just outside of Baghdad. Israel ...

Former prime minister Menachem Begin was a driving force in ensuring that government action was subject to legal review, and even urged his attorney general Aharon Barak to be closely involved in such ...

Schocken, 320 pages, $27.95. And lest we forget, Menachem Begin himself wrote two memoirs: “Ha-Mered,” “The Revolt,” a chronicle of his years leading Etzel, the Irgun Tzva’i Le’umi (the military arm ...

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Benny Begin, son of the Likud party’s iconic founder and former prime minister Menachem Begin, warned Sunday that the current Likud-led government is seeking a regime that is not democracy, and called ...

Before it was called the monumentally generic Begin Again, John Carney’s film was called Can A Song Save Your Life?, a title-cum-tagline that is a bit on the nose, a bit awkward and completely ...