Menachem Begin Heritage Center

Jerusalem highlights: September 25-October 1

What's new to do in Israel's capital?

 ‘Jerusalem,’ by Dan Livni;   ‘Judean Desert’ (L) by Lera  Barshtein (see Friday).
The presentation at the Begin Center was attended by researchers and representatives from multiple universities, embassies, and members of the Serbian community in Israel.

Collection of documents of Ustasha Atrocities presented at the Begin Center - opinion

Foreign Minister Gideon Sa'ar speaks at a press conference on the day of an EU-Israel Association Council with European Union foreign ministers in Brussels, Belgium, February 24, 2025.

Shifting EU politics, Israel's stance analyzed at Jerusalem conference - analysis

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrives to a Likud party meeting at the Knesset, Israel's parliament in Jerusalem on July 23, 2025.

Power struggles emerge in Netanyahu's Likud internal elections ahead of national primaries


Grapevine June 14, 2020: The goose and the gander

The status of women, their rights to equal opportunities and equal pay and their need to be protected from violence is not a party or a gender issue. It is a social issue.

Israel Beytenu party member Oded Forer

The journey to Jewish pride, beginning with Begin

Jewish pride is a good place to start when explaining just why Begin is the ideal figure around whom to build this project.

STROLLING IN Camp David, northern Maryland: (left to right) Prime minister Menachem Begin; foreign minister Moshe Dayan; Aharon Barak, then a legal expert with the Israeli delegation and a future president of the Supreme Court; and Yehiel Kadishai (on bicycle), Begin’s longtime aide.

Original copy of infamous 1939 British White Paper to be auctioned

An original copy of the 'White Paper' which restricted Jewish immigration to Palestine during the Holocaust is one of three rare pamphlets to be auctioned in Los Angeles

Palestine Police Force wanted poster of Irgun and Lehi members. Menachem Begin appears at the top left.

Will the Right, Left unite against Shin Bet enhanced interrogation?

Hendel endorsed using enhanced interrogation with terrorists to stop a ticking bomb – to imminently save lives – and said that “this sometimes comes at the expense of other values.”

Palestinian prisoners wait to be released from Ketziot prison, southern Israel, October 1, 2007

Victory begins at home

The Israel Victory Project’s new approach to the decades-old Israel Palestinian conflict has garnered support both in Israel and the US; on July 4, its ideas will be presented to the public.

CONGRESSMAN BILL JOHNSON, one of the co- chairs of the Congressional Israel Victory Caucus,  signs the joint declaration with Knesset Israel Victory Caucus co-chairs MKs Oded Forer and Avraham Neguise, and Prof. Daniel Pipes (in the background), at a joint meeting of the CIVC and the KIVC in Congres

Begin Center furious over revelations of former PM’s mental state

The Begin Heritage Center is preparing a complaint demanding a thorough investigation and considering “personal steps” against him.

Shimon Peres and Menachem Begin chat at the inaugural session of the 10th Knesset in 1981

Learning to talk the talk

The Siah Vasig debating society celebrates its 30th anniversary at a Jerusalem competition

Ann Kirson Swersky (right), the founder and chairperson of Siah Vasig, presents a special award to director and coordinator Bronislawa Kabakovitch

Hoenlein awarded Begin Prize for Israel-Diaspora leadership

Chancellor of Ariel University also receives prize.

Malcolm Hoenlein speaks Monday night in Jerusalem after receiving the Menachem Begin Prize for Israel-Diaspora leadership