Menachem Begin

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

The election campaign should focus on fixing Israel's biggest challenges instead of fueling political polarization.

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

 PRIME MINISTER Benjamin Netanyahu addresses a memorial ceremony for Ze’ev Jabotinsky at Mount Herzl in Jerusalem, last year.

How Ze'ev Jabotinsky shaped Israel's Right and liberal democracy - opinion

 Night view of Prague’s rotating ‘Head of Franz Kafka’ sculpture.

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Saving the remnants of Jewish life in Brest

The Together Plan seeks to create a memorial wall from the headstones of destroyed graves.

Jewish tombstones in Brest, known to Jews as Brisk

Jerusalem voters: Discounted activities for those who go to the ballot box

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The Train Theatre

Begin's great grandson makes a splash - but not the right kind - on Ninja Israel

But this wasn't the year for a Begin to begin the Ninja finals.

Matan Zalmanovitcz, the great-grandson of late prime minister Menachem Begin

Book review: Begin’s dramatic journey to peace

Gerald Steinberg and Ziv Rubinovitz have penned a deep dive of Israel’s first-ever peace treaty with a neighboring country

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

Walking a tightrope: Chabad’s complicated relationship with Zionism

The Chabad-Lubavitch movement is one of the fastest-growing and most influential denominations of Judaism, spanning across the world and heavily impacting the religion’s future.

RABBIS AT the International Conference of Chabad Emissaries, in Brooklyn, in 2016.

From Begin’s tchach-tchachim to Bibi’s bots - analysis

Likud has a long history of milking opponents’ insults for more votes.

PRIME MINISTER Benjamin Netanyahu walks in front of a poster depicting the late prime minister Menachem Begin in Tel Aviv in 2010

40 years of peace: How Begin made a crucial contribution

Begin saw peace with Egypt as not only a possibility, but as a priority.

THEN-PRIME MINISTER Menachem Begin, with Egyptian leader Anwar Sadat, visit Congress in 1978

Gantz slams Netanyahu on memorial day for Begin

Gantz later attacked the prime minister on Facebook saying that "Begin would have ousted Netanyahu from the Likud.”

Benjamin Netanyahu (L) and Benny Gantz (R)

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.

How it really was! - An unusual trio – Jabotinsky, Ben-Gurion and Begin

If we can look dispassionately at Vladimir Jabotinsky and David Ben-Gurion’s principles, we find something there is a marked similarity in ideals, albeit due to differences of place and time.

Postage stamps of Ben-Gurion and Jabotinsky