Menachem Begin Heritage Center

Power struggles emerge in Netanyahu's Likud internal elections ahead of national primaries

The clashes over local and Central Committee seats are exposing power struggles ahead of the national primaries as political consultants play central roles on many competing lists.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrives to a Likud party meeting at the Knesset, Israel's parliament in Jerusalem on July 23, 2025.
Civilians watch as smoke rises from the Altalena following the IDF shelling off the coast of Tel Aviv, June 1948.

Heritage minister seeks to locate remains of Irgun's Altalena ship, shelled by IDF in 1948

 SUSPENDED GOVERNMENT spokesman Eylon Levy (right) and HonestReporting Executive Director Gil Hoffman speak with Begin Heritage Center CEO  Paul Gross (left) in Jerusalem on Wednesday night.

Grapevine, March 24, 2024: Star attraction

 FROM RIGHT: Prof. Uriel Reichman, Prof. Yifat Bitton, Prof. Ami Moyal, Nina Avidar Weiner and Prof. Nir Kedar

Grapevine June 2, 2023: All that jazz


Theodor Herzl: The solution to Israel’s modern problems?

Writer, thinker, and Herzl admirer Gol Kalev believes the Zionist leader’s ideology and strategies are still relevant to current issues.

 Theodor Herzl on the Hotel Les Trois in Basel, Switzerland. (The Bettman Archive)

Menachem Begin's legacy and today's Likud party - comment

Begin was representative of a generation of Jews for whom the Holocaust and the struggle for independence were formative experiences.  

 BENJAMIN NETANYAHU walks in front of a poster of Menachem Begin at the Begin Heritage Center in Jerusalem.

Jerusalem Highlights August 19-25

What's new to do in Israel's capital?

 LOTS TO do: First Station.

Pastor John Hagee: Israel must never allow Iran to get a nuclear bomb

CUFI founder receives "Support of Israel Award" at annual Begin Symposium

 Pastor John Hagee speaks at the Menachem Begin Center on March 13, 2022

The Begin Symposium 2022 – 'Securing the Nation'

 The Menachem Begin Heritage Center

President Isaac Herzog speaks at opening of B'Sheva conference

President Isaac Herzog commented that he had assumed his role in stormy days following four rounds of parliamentary elections, with Israel barely avoiding a fifth one.

Israeli President Isaac Herzog speaks during a Conference of the 'Besheva' group in Jerusalem, on August 1, 2021

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.

Grapevine June 14, 2020: The goose and the gander

The status of women, their rights to equal opportunities and equal pay and their need to be protected from violence is not a party or a gender issue. It is a social issue.

Israel Beytenu party member Oded Forer

The journey to Jewish pride, beginning with Begin

Jewish pride is a good place to start when explaining just why Begin is the ideal figure around whom to build this project.

STROLLING IN Camp David, northern Maryland: (left to right) Prime minister Menachem Begin; foreign minister Moshe Dayan; Aharon Barak, then a legal expert with the Israeli delegation and a future president of the Supreme Court; and Yehiel Kadishai (on bicycle), Begin’s longtime aide.

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.

Will the Right, Left unite against Shin Bet enhanced interrogation?

Hendel endorsed using enhanced interrogation with terrorists to stop a ticking bomb – to imminently save lives – and said that “this sometimes comes at the expense of other values.”

Palestinian prisoners wait to be released from Ketziot prison, southern Israel, October 1, 2007