rces Agreement. UN General Assembly Resolution 3379 (Zionism-Racism). Lebanese President Suleiman Frangieh invites Syrian troops into the country. Menachem Begin’s Likud Party wins Israeli national elections after 29 years of Labor Party dominance. In a speech in Cairo, President Anwar al-Sadat announces his r

appened? Millions of Israelis are descendants of those who died in the Holocaust. In 1981, when Iraq threatened Israel, Israel’s then prime minister, Menachem Begin, ordered the HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_023542 --- PAGE BREAK --- 2] Israeli Air Force to destroy Iraq’s nuclear reactor and then declared that “Israel has

, the doubts, the risks. many assumed we would fail. He talked about the opportunity and recognizing it. And the deed. • Like Ben Gurion at the time, Menachem Begin - with Egypt, and Rabin - in the peace treaty with Jordan, and later Peres - with the first steps towards the Palestinians, took huge national, diplo

, the doubts, the risks. many assumed we would fail. He talked about the opportunity and recognizing it. And the deed. • Like Ben Gurion at the time, Menachem Begin - with Egypt, and Rabin - in the peace treaty with Jordan, and later Peres - with the first steps towards the Palestinians, took huge national, diplo

on the other side, security tips the balance." Peres subsequently used that self-same argument to join every government that would have him. The late Menachem Begin lost nine elections before finally becoming Israel's Prime Minister in 1977. He served as a pugnacious and dedicated leader of the opposition. Peres

on the other side, security tips the balance." Peres subsequently used that self-same argument to join every government that would have him. The late Menachem Begin lost nine elections before finally becoming Israel's Prime Minister in 1977. He served as a pugnacious and dedicated leader of the opposition. Peres

ugh few of those individuals remain I think I am one of the fortunate few. He didn't mentioned the horrors or the sacrifice of the 48' war. I believe Menachem Begin had it,as several years after the bitter 73' war he was able to make a daring peace with Egypt. Als Izhak Rabin,who now 20yrs ago, signed the Peace t

of us lost it. I, BG added, did not. I've seen an opportunity and I seized it. He didn't mentioned the horrors or the sacrifice of the 48' war.PM Menachem Begin, several years after the bitter 73' war made the daring peace with Egypt. PM Itzhak Rabin, exactly 20yrs ago, signed the Peace treaty with Jordan

omats. The pretext was flimsy as usual: an anti-PLO terrorist outfit had tried to assassinate the Israeli ambassador in London. When Prime Minister Menachem Begin was told by his Mossad chief that the assassins were enemies of the PLO, Begin famously answered: "For me, they are all PLO!" As a matter of fact,

was occupied a few years later by settlers from the religious-Zionist Gush Emunim movement; in the late 1970s, it was authorized by Prime Minister Menachem Begin's Likud government. Today, it is the West Bank's third-largest settlement, drawing many secular Israelis attracted as much by its striking desert l

Whether and in what form the Jewish state should accept Germany's help was a matter of controversy for the Israeli public. The later Prime Minister Menachem Begin, for example, who had lost much of his family in the Holocaust, could only see Germany as the "land of the murderers." To this day, financial assis