Menachem Begin

Under Netanyahu, Meir Kahane’s doctrine has contaminated Likud - opinion

The Left convinced themselves and others that the gun tucked into Arafat's belt would no longer be used for killing, that he now carried an olive branch, and that he had abandoned his grand vision...

 Rabbi Meir Kahane at a New York news conference, Aug. 31, 1984.
 BENJAMIN NETANYAHU walks in front of a poster of Menachem Begin at the Begin Heritage Center in Jerusalem.

What would Menachem Begin say about democracy’s state in today’s Likud? - editorial

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the IDF's 192nd pilot course graduation ceremony.

Israel's next election is a chance to end politics of division - opinion

Gadi Taub sits down with Editor-in-chief Zvika Klein to retrace the defection that took him from Peace Now demonstrations to the front line of the fight over Israel's Supreme Court, its media and its national identity.

Who is Gadi Taub , the Labor prince who became the Israeli Left’s fiercest critic?


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

Aliyah & Integration Minister Pnina Tamano-Shata awarded Magen Begin Prize

Tamano-Shata was chosen as the first recipient of the prize for her actions in the Knesset, promoting the very same social justice, equality and fight against discrimination that Begin did.

Aliyah and Integration Minister Pnina Tamano-Shata was awarded the Magen Begin Prize for Leadership from the Begin Heritage Center.

The Begin Doctrine: 'Never Again' is an Israeli promise

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.

MENACHEM BEGIN, Jimmy Carter and Anwar Sadat at a Marine Corp Ceremony on September 7, 1978.

New documentary explores the life and career of Menachem Begin

Using rarely seen archival materials and intimate interviews with people who knew Begin personally and as prime minister, the Upheaval team has created a film covering the entire arc of his life.

MENACHEM BEGIN and his wife, Aliza.

Does Israel still have values after its fourth elections? - opinion

For many decades, Israeli politics was a battle royale of ideas between the Labor Party, led in large by David Ben-Gurion and his successors and the Herut/Likud Party led by Menachem Begin.

Israel’s first prime minister, David Ben-Gurion, lunches with Ezer Weizman and Menachem Begin at Jerusalem’s King David Hotel on December 11, 1967

What challenges shake the foundations of the modern Zionist project?

Dan Meridor reflects on his momentous career

Dan Meridor

When Egyptian President Anwar Sadat addressed the Knesset

A look back at the Egyptian President's speech to Israeli lawmakers 43 years ago.

Former Egyptian president Anwar Sadat addresses the Egyptian parliament before traveling to Israel, 1977

Unity, Mizrachi, and the legacy of Rabbi Sacks

For the first time in Zionist history, the majority of the 525 delegates from Israel and around the world were identified with the political and religious right wing of the Zionist movement.

THE WZO IS akin to the parliament of the Jewish people.

Time is up for the ongoing, dangerous Likud and ultra-Orthodox liason

It’s been one long political farce, economic scam, and social tragedy, and – as the virus it has courted now makes plain – its time is up.

AN ULTRA-ORTHODOX man walks past a supporter of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu holding a placard reading, ‘The nation is with Bibi,’ in May, 2020.

Menachem Begin vs. Benjamin Netanyahu: A window of opportunity

On December 13, Begin called Arye Naor, his cabinet secretary, and ordered him to summon the head of the Mossad, the justice minister and the attorney general for an emergency meeting.

A TALE of two prime ministers. A portrait of Menachem Begin behind Benjamin Netanyahu