In contrast, Menachem Begin was the leader of the Jewish underground, the Irgun, whose military activities brought the British to their knees and forced them and their 100,000 troops out of ...

The late prime minister Menachem Begin, founder of the Likud party, is “spinning in his grave” over the behavior of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, National Unity chairman Benny Gantz avers ...

Menachem Begin, the sixth prime minister of Israel, ... Of all the Irgun-led attacks, the most notorious occurred in 1948 at an Arab village known as Deir Yassin on the outskirts of Jerusalem.

Herzl Makov is CEO of the Menachem Begin Heritage Center, a national center to commemorate Israel’s sixth prime minister. Serving as a fighter pilot in the Israeli Air Force, obtaining the rank ...

Begin changed the way the state would treat the legacy of Irgun and Lehi members, the N.I.L.I. underground, my great uncle Yosef Lishansky, and the way Mizrachi and orthodox Jews were seen by the ...

Thus, when Herut, which had been founded by Menachem Begin as a successor to the Irgun in June 1948, merged with the Liberal Party in 1965 to found Gahal, which later evolved into Likud, ...

Shortly thereafter, the head of the Irgun, Menachem Begin, sent a private letter to the author of the letter, Ben Hecht. Begin thanked Hecht for “all that you have done for us, ...

The late prime minister Menachem Begin, founder of the Likud party, is “spinning in his grave” over the behavior of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, National Unity chairman Benny Gantz avers ...