Menachem Begin

Israel and Egypt: Frosty neighbors' ties tested by Iran war, but remain stable

Operation Roaring Lion has Egypt and Israel on the same side. But what will happen when the war with Iran ends?

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

Israel's opposition shapes a narrative of authoritarianism - opinion

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

Capturing a nation: Werner Braun’s photographic journey

CLOUDS OVER a village on the Golan Heights

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


Walking a tightrope: Chabad’s complicated relationship with Zionism

The Chabad-Lubavitch movement is one of the fastest-growing and most influential denominations of Judaism, spanning across the world and heavily impacting the religion’s future.

RABBIS AT the International Conference of Chabad Emissaries, in Brooklyn, in 2016.

From Begin’s tchach-tchachim to Bibi’s bots - analysis

Likud has a long history of milking opponents’ insults for more votes.

PRIME MINISTER Benjamin Netanyahu walks in front of a poster depicting the late prime minister Menachem Begin in Tel Aviv in 2010

40 years of peace: How Begin made a crucial contribution

Begin saw peace with Egypt as not only a possibility, but as a priority.

THEN-PRIME MINISTER Menachem Begin, with Egyptian leader Anwar Sadat, visit Congress in 1978

Gantz slams Netanyahu on memorial day for Begin

Gantz later attacked the prime minister on Facebook saying that "Begin would have ousted Netanyahu from the Likud.”

Benjamin Netanyahu (L) and Benny Gantz (R)

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.

How it really was! - An unusual trio – Jabotinsky, Ben-Gurion and Begin

If we can look dispassionately at Vladimir Jabotinsky and David Ben-Gurion’s principles, we find something there is a marked similarity in ideals, albeit due to differences of place and time.

Postage stamps of Ben-Gurion and Jabotinsky

Think About It: Has hatred for Netanyahu gone out of control?

From the start, I did not like his neoliberal ideology, and noticed his flimsiness with and manipulation of historical facts.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends a news conference in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil December 30, 2018

This week in 60 seconds

Got a minute? Here's the week in review.

Jerusalem Post News

Begin recording pulled from auction after lawsuit

Children of former prime minister sue to stop sale of 1948 speech, claiming copyright infringement.

PRIME MINISTER Benjamin Netanyahu walks in front of a poster depicting the late prime minister Menachem Begin in Tel Aviv in 2010

Lost Menachem Begin recording to be auctioned

Speech from 1948 was recently discovered in Jerusalem.

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