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


Harold ‘Smoky’ Simon dies at 101

Mahal legend and former IAF COO Harold 'Smoky' Simon dies at the ripe age of 101

Harold “Smoky” Simon

Grapevine February 20, 2022: Holocaust still discussed at major Jewish conferences

Movers and shakers in Israeli society.

 A HOLOCAUST SURVIVOR holds a Torah as he arrives at the entrance to Auschwitz for the annual March of the Living marking Holocaust Remembrance Day in May.

The Israeli-Egyptian ‘Bird of Peace’ trilogy

In the following trilogy, illustrator Richard Codor, Rabbi David Geffen and Judge Steve Adler share their story of the Israeli-Egyptian Bird of Peace.

 The original Bird of Peace illustration with three riders was created in 1978 for Arab TV by a rising cartoonist who is now quite famous, Richard Codor.

Begin and Jerusalem at Camp David

The issue of Jerusalem at the last minute nearly capsized the entire peace agreement with Egypt at Camp David over 40 years ago.

 THEN-PRIME MINISTER Menachem Begin and Egyptian president Anwar Sadat greet each other at their first meeting at the Camp David summit as US president Jimmy Carter looks on in September 1978.

Menachem Begin's enduring legacy - interview with Center's CEO

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.

 A portrait of Menachem Begin in the Begin Center.

On This Day: Camp David Accords signed, leading to Israel-Egypt peace

The Camp David Accords are remembered positively as the first truly successful peace negotiation between Israel and an Arab nation.

Anwar Sadat, Jimmy Carter and Menachem Begin at the signing of the Camp David Accords in 1979

Yom Kippur in British Mandate Palestine and the Irgun

Ever since the November 1928 White Paper, the blowing of the shofar, the ram’s horn, among other customs, had been prohibited at the Western Wall — Much to the chagrin of the Irgun.

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

On This Day: 108th birthday of Menachem Begin, Israel's 6th prime minister

Begin served as the leader of the Irgun militia in Mandatory Palestine before going on to form the opposition in the Knesset and, finally, becoming prime minister and changing Israel forever.

Former Israeli prime minister Menachem Begin, under whom Operation Opera was carried out, bombing Iraq's nuclear reactor.

Lessons from taking a wrong turn on Israel's highways

I thought I was driving on Israel's highways to work when I realized I had accidentally put in Ashkelon instead of Jerusalem. After freaking out, the only thing to was laugh.

 A "wrong way" sign (Illustrative)

Israel's sixth president: Meeting Menachem Begin at the hospital

He sat in his wheelchair (which he now needed as a result of a hip operation), looking not like a charismatic, strong prime minister, but as a frail and vulnerable elderly man.

MENACHEM BEGIN just before his discharge from Shaare Zedek Medical Center, Jerusalem; he had been a pneumonia patient for two weeks. He is surrounded by his doctors and nurse, with the writer extreme right. Directly behind him are director-general Prof. Jonathan Halevy and his physician, Dr. Efraim