The Begin Doctrine was born exactly 40 years ago, on 7 June 1981, when then-prime minister Menachem Begin sent Israeli fighter planes to bomb the Osirak nuclear reactor just outside of Baghdad. Israel ...

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. Herzl Makov is CEO of the Menachem Begin Heritage Center, a ...

Mr. Carter was a lifeline to stalled talks by mediating a summit at Camp David in 1978. By Vivek Shankar In its earlier invasions, Israel said its aim was to secure its northern frontier and stop ...

Schocken, 320 pages, $27.95. And lest we forget, Menachem Begin himself wrote two memoirs: “Ha-Mered,” “The Revolt,” a chronicle of his years leading Etzel, the Irgun Tzva’i Le’umi (the military arm ...

Any country, any relationship, indeed anything in life has its good and bad sides. There are good days and there are bad days. There are good decisions and bad decisions. Regardless of how one feels ...

Former prime minister Menachem Begin was a driving force in ensuring that government action was subject to legal review, and even urged his attorney general Aharon Barak to be closely involved in such ...

Correct. He was the prime minister of Israel at the time, and it was taken during a visit to Downing Street in 1979. “Menachem Begin was a key organizer of the 1946 Irgun terrorist attack on the King ...

I recently attended a screening of the documentary “Upheaval – The Journey of Menachem Begin” at the Movies of Delray. Rob Schwartz, the executive producer was the special guest at an event hosted by ...

The biophysicist Ephraim Katzir entered politics only once – when he became the fourth president of Israel. This happened as a result of tragedy. In May 1972, Japanese terrorists murdered 26 random ...

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So shocking was the electoral upset that Israeli television created a word for it: mahapakh. Derived from the root that means “revolution” or “turning upside down,” the word was fashioned because ...