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    Menachem Begin

    Israeli politician and former Prime Minister

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  2. Menachem Begin (Hebrew: מְנַחֵם בֵּגִין Menaḥem Begin, pronounced [menaˈχem ˈbeɡin] ⓘ; Polish: Menachem Begin (Polish documents, 1931–1937); Russian: Менахем Вольфович Бегин, romanized: Menakhem Volfovich Begin; 16 August 1913 – 9 March 1992) was an Israeli politician, founder of Likud and the ...

  3. Apr 12, 2024 · Menachem Begin was a Zionist leader who was prime minister of Israel from 1977 to 1983. Begin was the corecipient, with Egyptian Pres. Anwar el-Sādāt, of the 1978 Nobel Prize for Peace for their achievement of a peace treaty between Israel and Egypt that was formally signed in 1979.

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  4. Menachem Begin was born on August 16, 1913, in Brest-Litovsk in 1913. As a child, he was forced to flee with his family to escape the fighting between the German and Russian armies in World War I. A passionate Zionist from an early age, he joined Ze’ev Jabotinsky’s Betar youth movement in his teens and quickly rose to important ...

  5. Menachem Begin (Hebrew: מְנַחֵם בְּגִין, (August 16, 1913 - March 9, 1992) was head of the Zionist underground group the Irgun, a Nobel Peace Prize laureate, and the first Likud Prime Minister of Israel. Though revered by many Israelis, Begin’s legacy remains controversial. As the leader of the Irgun, Begin played a central role ...

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    • Suffered Discrimination in Poland
    • Battled For Independent Israel
    • Turned to Politics
    • Peace with Egypt
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    Menachem Wolfovitch Begin was born on August 16, 1913, the youngest of Ze'ev Dov and Hassia Begin's three children. Begin's father worked as a traveling timber salesman, an occupation that brought him into contact with a wide variety of people. Ze'ev Dov Begin hoped that Jews would someday establish their own nation, and in his travels he made cont...

    In the early 1940s Palestine was controlled under a British mandate and contained both Arab and Jewish communities. When Begin arrived there, Britain had begun limiting the number of Jewish immigrants to the country, even in the face of Hitler's murderous policies. As others, including politicalleader David Ben-Gurion(1886–1973; see entry), worked ...

    In the first election of representatives to the Knesset, Israel's 120-member legislative body, Begin's party won fourteen seats. Ben-Gurion's party, the Mapai, won forty-four seats and the right to lead the government. In the Knesset, Begin and Ben-Gurion began a difficult political relationship because of their vastly different opinions. The two c...

    In November 1977 Begin invited Egyptian president Anwar Sadat to Israel as an overture for peace. Though negotiations between Israel and Egypt continued for nearly a year, no headway toward peace was made until U.S. president Jimmy Carter (1924–; served 1977–81) stepped in to help. Inviting Begin andSadat to the U.S. presidential retreat of Camp Da...

    The peace negotiations between Israel and Egypt in the late 1970s generated a great sense of optimism. Israel was finally being recognized by the Arab state whose leader, Gamal Abdel Nasser, said of Israel in 1967: "A State? No. We cannot recognize that," according to Richard Amdur in Menachem Begin.More than ignoring Israel's statehood, Egypt had ...

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    Amdur, Richard. Menachem Begin. New York: Chelsea House, 1988. Brackett, Virginia. Menachem Begin.Philadelphia: Chelsea House, 2003.

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    James, Larry. "Egypt Frees Businessman Accused of Spying for Israel." Voice of America(December 5, 2004). Available online at http://www.voanews.com/English/2004-12-05-voa4.cfm (accessed on July 7, 2005). Lynfield, Ben, and Dan Murphy. "Egypt, Israel Seize Chance for Thaw." Christian Science Monitor (December 6, 2004). Available online at http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/1206/p01s03-wome.html(accessed on July 7, 2005).

  6. May 24, 2018 · Menachem Begin (b. 1913– d. 1992) was a pillar of the Betar Youth Movement in Poland in the late 1930s, leader of the Etzel paramilitary organization (also known as the Irgun) during the Yishuv period (1944–1948), and the sixth prime minister of Israel (1977–1983).

  7. Mar 10, 1992 · Menachem Begin, son of a Jewish timber merchant in czarist Russia who became Israel’s sixth prime minister 15 years ago, was a man driven to feats of court age and the depths of despair. His...

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