Menachem Begin

Showing some respect: Places around the world named after famous Israelis

At a time when the word "Israel" evokes controversy and extreme hostility in many places, it is moving to recall eras and locations where Israelis were actually a source of admiration.

In April 2004, about nine years after the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin, an emotional official ceremony took place in the heart of Berlin to commemorate Israel’s fifth prime minister. Yitzhak-Rabin-Straße.
National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir holds a press conference with new Otzma Yehudit MK Tally Gotliv, in Tel Aviv, September 4, 2026

Israel’s next political upheaval will come from the Right - opinion

SARA NETANYAHU has implied that Democrats Party leader Yair Golan had prior knowledge of Hamas’s invasion plans. Although he might be ill-informed about his party’s history and agenda, Golan is neither a villain nor a turncoat, the writer maintains.

Middle Israel: Why is Sara Netanyahu going to war against Yair Golan? - opinion

 Heritage Minister Amihai Eliyahu attends a protest in Tel Aviv, November 27, 2024

What do the Altalena and the Heritage Ministry have to do with the approaching elections? - opinion


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

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.