Menachem Begin

Israel’s law shaped Trump’s historic recognition of Golan Heights - opinion

President Donald Trump’s 2019 recognition of Israeli sovereignty over the Golan Heights sparked global debate over law, history, and security.

|ByURI PILICHOWSKI
CLOUDS OVER a village on the Golan Heights
An Israeli soldier holds an Army Radio microphone in Jerusalem, December 22, 2025

Israel faces national test as Supreme Court blocks Army Radio closure - opinion

Supreme Court blocks Army Radio closure, signaling a fight over press freedom and democratic checks in Israel.

|BySHERWIN POMERANTZ
A PIECE FROM Avinadav Begin’s solo exhibition at the Sheetrit & Wolf Gallery in Neve Tzedek.

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.”

|ByNERIA BARR
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

Heritage Minister Amichai Eliyahu described to Channel 14's The Patriots that there is still "pain" over the affair, which led to the deaths of 16 Irgun paramilitary members and three IDF soldiers.

|ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF

Bennett takes credit for pushing Netanyahu to the right

Education minister Naftali Bennett told his party that leadership has a price and called for Bayit Yehudi to be more accepting of a broader segment of Israeli society.

SEPTEMBER 26, 2017ByLAHAV HARKOV
Naftali Bennett speaking at the Bayit Yehudi central committee.

Refugees/asylum seekers: Begin vs Netanyahu

Would Menachem Begin have supported Prime Minister Netanyahu's hard line on asylum seekers?

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017BySHELDON GELLAR
An African asylum seeker in Tel Aviv. ‘Most of Israel’s approximately 40,000 African asylum seekers chose Israel as their destination because that they knew that Israel was ademocracy and believed Israel would accept them because the Jewish People had gone through similar experiences.’

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.

AUGUST 9, 2017ByLAHAV HARKOV
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.

AUGUST 2, 2017ByJPOST EDITORIAL
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.

JULY 11, 2017ByAVRAHAM AVI-HAI
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

JULY 2, 2017ByAMOTZ ASA-EL, AMOTZ ASA-EL
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.

JUNE 27, 2017ByAMOTZ ASA-EL
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.

JUNE 26, 2017ByAMOTZ ASA-EL
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

JUNE 22, 2017ByMIKE EVANS
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

JUNE 19, 2017ByAMOTZ ASA-EL
Demonstrators including Israeli and Palestinian activists take part in a demonstration in support of peace near Jericho last year