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 ...

I was amazed by the courage and daring of our prime minister, the government, and the leadership of the army to take such a brave action. Herzl Makov is CEO of the Menachem Begin Heritage Center, a ...

Mr. Carter was a lifeline to stalled talks by mediating a summit at Camp David in 1978. By Vivek Shankar In its earlier invasions, Israel said its aim was to secure its northern frontier and stop ...

I knew that the late UN correspondent David Horowitz and former Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin shared a close friendship. Their letters, preserved in the UN archives, testify to a bond between ...

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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 ...

Seven government ministers, led by Heritage Minister Amichai Eliyahu, wrote to Defense Minister Israel Katz requesting that he order the transfer of the IDF cannon that fired on the ship Altalena, to ...

Any country, any relationship, indeed anything in life has its good and bad sides. There are good days and there are bad days. There are good decisions and bad decisions. Regardless of how one feels ...

On a day in June 1977, in a Knesset buzzing with excitement — every seat taken, senior officials cramming reserved sections, and the galleries packed with ambassadors and other dignitaries — Menachem ...

Correct. He was the prime minister of Israel at the time, and it was taken during a visit to Downing Street in 1979. “Menachem Begin was a key organizer of the 1946 Irgun terrorist attack on the King ...

Indisputably one of Israel’s greatest leaders and one of the greatest Jews of all time, Menachem Begin (1913-1992) was a participant in many of the major events in modern Jewish history: the evolution ...