Menachem Begin

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 Night view of Prague’s rotating ‘Head of Franz Kafka’ sculpture.
Then-US President Jimmy Carter (C) congratulates Egyptian president Anwar al-Sadat and prime minister Menachem Begin in three-way handshake on March 26, 1979 at the White House, after signing the historic US-sponsored peace treaty between Israel and Egypt.

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends a Christian Conference in Jerusalem, on April 27, 2025

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Werner Braun's 1964 picture of five nuns in the Valley of the Cross in Jerusalem is a symphony in monochrome.

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No holds barred: Jewish groups’ disgraceful rejection of Jerusalem recognition

Israel has shown it is willing to make tough, even irresponsible sacrifices, as it did giving up the Sinai to Egypt and withdrawing from Gaza.

After signing, US President Donald Trump holds up the proclamation that the United States recognizes Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and will move its embassy there, during an address from the White House in Washington, US, December 6, 2017.

How it really was: To be Begin and Peres on the same weekend

As a speaker I did not have the courage of Abba Eban, who as Israel ambassador to the US and the UN in the 1950s was universally recognized as one of the great orators of the last century.

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

Grapevine: Into retirement

The Taub Center for Social Policy Studies in Israel will hold its annual international policy conference on November 20 at Mishkenot Sha’ananim.

Mayor of Jerusalem Nir Barkat

How it really was: Spit and polish!

‘I will not have Dayan speaking for me’.

Sadat chatting with foreign minister Moshe Dayan during a dinner at the King David Hotel

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.

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?

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.

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