Menachem Begin

Avinadav Begin unveils solo exhibition in Neve Tzedek

“I build the works because I need to. The rest is that it meets people, and I see what it does.”

A PIECE FROM Avinadav Begin’s solo exhibition at the Sheetrit & Wolf Gallery in Neve Tzedek.
Civilians watch as smoke rises from the Altalena following the IDF shelling off the coast of Tel Aviv, June 1948.

Heritage minister seeks to locate remains of Irgun's Altalena ship, shelled by IDF in 1948

 IRANIAN FLAGS fly as fire and smoke rise from an Israeli attack on the Sharan oil depot in Tehran on Sunday. The world watches as Israel exercises the most basic right of any sovereign state: the right of self-defense, says the writer.

Operation Rising Lion: A declaration of Jewish sovereignty in the Middle East - opinion

 ADDRESSING THE UN General Assembly in 2012, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu points to a red line regarding Iran’s nuclear program.

No Nukes: From the Begin Doctrine to the war with Iran - opinion


Haredi MK Gafni recalls party's historic support of evacuating settlements

The letter is dated April 18, 1978, when Begin was negotiating peace with Egypt, which involved returning Sinai to Egypt and evacuating Yamit.

Moshe Gafni

Less heat, more light

The founder of the Likud, Menachem Begin, could be imagined spinning in his grave at the deterioration of his parliamentary legacy.

Menachem and Aliza Begin vote in the national election on May 17, 1977

The way it really was

Project Renewal: How history was made by Menachemm Begin,Phil Granovsky – and a flip chart.

Former prime minister Menachem Begin (right) with the writer, Avraham Avi-hai

Une révolution qui dure

La première victoire électorale du Likoud a engendré une nouvelle donne politique, économique et sociale qui a transformé le pays

A la Knesset, aparté de Menahem Begin et Ezer Weizman, en arrière-plan, aparté de Shimon Peres et Yigal Allon

Has it really been 40 years since the 'Mahapach'?

Likud’s first electoral victory produced a new political hegemon and an epoch of social transition, national defiance and cultural revolt.

PRIME MINISTER Benjamin Netanyahu walks in front of a poster depicting the late prime minister Menachem Begin, upon his arrival at the Likud party’s headquarters in Tel Aviv in 2010

Has it really been 40 years since Israel's political revolution?

Likud’s first electoral victory produced a new political hegemon and an epoch of social transition, national defiance and cultural revolt.

Menachem and Aliza Begin vote in the national election on May 17, 1977

A happy birthday from hell

On November 3, 1983, Snell gunned down William Stumpp, the owner of a small pawn shop in Texarkana, Arkansas. Snell thought his victim was a Jew

Firemen examine the wreckage of the federal building in downtown Oklahoma City that claimed the lives of 168 people.

Middle Israel: Happy birthday, land for peace

As it turns 50, the formula’s future may be bleak, but its reward remains priceless

Demonstrators including Israeli and Palestinian activists take part in a demonstration in support of peace near Jericho last year

When I was seven

A look back at Begin’s victory and the lessons it holds for today

After signing the Camp David Accords, Begin laid down in the Knesset in December 1977 his principles for an autonomy plan

A Man Of The People

The Jerusalem Post