Menachem Begin

Author : Avi Shilon
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 587 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2012-11-27
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780300189032

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Menachem Begin by Avi Shilon Pdf

Menachem Begin, father of Israel's right wing and sixth prime minister of the nation, was known for his unflinchingly hawkish ideology. And yet, in 1979 he signed a groundbreaking peace treaty with Egypt for which he and Egyptian president Anwar Sadat received the Nobel Prize for Peace. Such a contradiction was typical in Begin's life: no other Israeli played as many different, sometimes conflicting, roles as Begin, and no other figure inspired such sharply opposing responses. Begin was belittled and beloved, revered and despised, and his career was punctuated by exhilarating highs on the one hand, despair and ostracism on the other./divDIV DIVThis riveting biography is the first to provide a satisfactory answer to the question, Who was Begin? Based on wide-ranging research among archival documents and on testimonials and interviews with Begin's closest advisers, the book presents a detailed new portrait of the founding leader. Among the many topics the book holds up to new light are Begin's antagonistic relationship with David Ben-Gurion, his controversial role in the 1982 Lebanon War, his unique leadership style, the changes in his ideology over the years, and the mystery behind the total silence he maintained at the end of his career. Through Begin's remarkable life, the book also recounts the history of the right-wing segment of Israeli society, a story essential to understanding the Israel of today./div

Author : Daniel Gordis
Publisher : Schocken
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2014-03-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780805243123

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Menachem Begin by Daniel Gordis Pdf

Reviled as a fascist by his great rival Ben-Gurion, venerated by Israel’s underclass, the first Israeli to win the Nobel Peace Prize, a proud Jew but not a conventionally religious one, Menachem Begin was both complex and controversial. Born in Poland in 1913, Begin was a youthful admirer of the Revisionist Zionist Ze’ev Jabotinsky and soon became a leader within Jabotinsky’s Betar movement. A powerful orator and mesmerizing public figure, Begin was imprisoned by the Soviets in 1940, joined the Free Polish Army in 1942, and arrived in Palestine as a Polish soldier shortly thereafter. Joining the underground paramilitary Irgun in 1943, he achieved instant notoriety for the organization’s bombings of British military installations and other violent acts. Intentionally left out of the new Israeli government, Begin’s right-leaning Herut political party became a fixture of the opposition to the Labor-dominated governments of Ben-Gurion and his successors, until the surprising parliamentary victory of his political coalition in 1977 made him prime minister. Welcoming Egyptian president Anwar Sadat to Israel and cosigning a peace treaty with him on the White House lawn in 1979, Begin accomplished what his predecessors could not. His outreach to Ethiopian Jews and Vietnamese “boat people” was universally admired, and his decision to bomb Iraq’s nuclear reactor in 1981 is now regarded as an act of courageous foresight. But the disastrous invasion of Lebanon to end the PLO’s shelling of Israel’s northern cities, combined with his declining health and the death of his wife, led Begin to resign in 1983. He spent the next nine years in virtual seclusion, until his death in 1992. Begin was buried not alongside Israel’s prime ministers, but alongside the Irgun comrades who died in the struggle to create the Jewish national home to which he had devoted his life. Daniel Gordis’s perceptive biography gives us new insight into a remarkable political figure whose influence continues to be felt both within Israel and throughout the world. This title is part of the Jewish Encounters series.

Author : Gerald M. Steinberg,Ziv Rubinovitz
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2019-04-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780253039552

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Menachem Begin and the Israel-Egypt Peace Process by Gerald M. Steinberg,Ziv Rubinovitz Pdf

Focusing on the character and personality of Menachem Begin, Gerald Steinberg and Ziv Rubinovitz offer a new look into the peace negotiations between Israel and Egypt in the 1970s. Begin's role as a peace negotiator has often been marginalized, but this sympathetic and critical portrait restores him to the center of the diplomatic process. Beginning with the events of 1967, Steinberg and Rubinovitz look at Begin's statements on foreign policy, including relations with Egypt, and his role as Prime Minister and chief signer of the Israel-Egypt peace treaty. While Begin did not leave personal memoirs or diaries of the peace process, Steinberg and Rubinovitz have tapped into newly released Israeli archives and information housed at the Jimmy Carter Presidential Library and the Begin Heritage Center. The analysis illuminates the complexities that Menachem Begin faced in navigating between ideology and political realism in the negotiations towards a peace treaty that remains a unique diplomatic achievement.

Author : Menachem Begin
Publisher : Gefen Publishing House Ltd
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : History
ISBN : 965229456X

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Peace in the Making by Menachem Begin Pdf

Here, for the first time, is the complete correspondence between Israel's Prime Minister Menachem Begin and Egypt's President Anwar el-Sadat as they wrestled with what would become their Nobel Peace Prize winning accomplishment. The letters, together with transcripts of speeches, press conferences, interviews, rare photos and official documents, reveal the personal relationship the two leaders constructed, which was eventually reflected in the treaty they signed. The personalities, the principled issues, the manoeuvrings, the clashes, the compromises and agreements are all revealed in these letters. Covering the period from June 1977 until a day before Sadat's assassination in October 1981, the Begin-Sadat correspondence affords a behind-the-scenes glimpse into the efforts, crises, and agonising decisions these two leaders faced and overcame to achieve peace. Supplemented with photos and the full texts of the Camp David Accords and the Israel-Egypt peace treaty, this ground-breaking volume sheds new light on a peace process that succeeded.

Author : Menachem Begin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1964
Category : Israel
ISBN : IND:30000008748356

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The Revolt by Menachem Begin Pdf

Author : Eitan Haber
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : PSU:000046295187

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Menachem Begin by Eitan Haber Pdf

Author : Menachem Begin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Jews, Belarusian
ISBN : 9655220141

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White Nights by Menachem Begin Pdf

Autobiographical memoir by Menachem Begin, the sixth Prime Minister of Israel, describing his imprisonment in the Soviet gulag labour camps during 1940-1942. Along with a description of the author's own harrowing experiences in the camps, the book contains various observations on the real-life operation of the Soviet system and the psychology of some of its minions.

Author : Ned Temko
Publisher : William Morrow
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015013347565

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To Win Or to Die by Ned Temko Pdf

Index. Bibliography: p. 452-454.

Author : Lawrence Wright
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2015-04-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9780804170024

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Thirteen Days in September by Lawrence Wright Pdf

ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW’ S 10 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR One of the Best Books of the Year: The Washington Post, The Christian Science Monitor, NPR, Entertainment Weekly, The Economist, The Daily Beast, St. Louis Post-Dispatch In September 1978, three world leaders—Menachem Begin of Israel, Anwar Sadat of Egypt, and U.S. president Jimmy Carter—met at Camp David to broker a peace agreement between the two Middle East nations. During the thirteen-day conference, Begin and Sadat got into screaming matches and had to be physically separated; both attempted to walk away multiple times. Yet, by the end, a treaty had been forged—one that has quietly stood for more than three decades, proving that peace in the Middle East is possible. Wright combines politics, scripture, and the participants’ personal histories into a compelling narrative of the fragile peace process. Begin was an Orthodox Jew whose parents had perished in the Holocaust; Sadat was a pious Muslim inspired since boyhood by stories of martyrdom; Carter, who knew the Bible by heart, was driven by his faith to pursue a treaty, even as his advisers warned him of the political cost. Wright reveals an extraordinary moment of lifelong enemies working together—and the profound difficulties inherent in the process. Thirteen Days in September is a timely revisiting of this diplomatic triumph and an inside look at how peace is made.

Author : Heather Lehr Wagner
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Arab-Israeli conflict
ISBN : 9781438104409

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Anwar Sadat and Menachem Begin by Heather Lehr Wagner Pdf

The 1978 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Anwar Sadat, president of Egypt, and Menachem Begin, prime minister of Israel, for their contributions to the Camp David Accords. This work describes each laureate's rise to power and the challenges they faced on the road to becoming modern peacemakers.

Author : Yehuda Avner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1592642780

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The Prime Ministers by Yehuda Avner Pdf

Yehuda Avner left England and arrived in Palestine in 1947, just weeks before the UN passed a resolution that led to the creation of the State of Israel. An active participant in the dramatic birth of the Jewish state, he went on to serve as Speechwriter and English-Language Secretary to Prime Ministers Levi Eshkol and Golda Meir, and Personal Advisor to Prime Ministers Yitzhak Rabin and Menachem Begin. From these vantage points, Avner came to know like no one else-- the inner workings of the Prime Minister's Office and four of its key officeholders. The Prime Ministers describes the personal characters of Israel's political leaders in intimate detail, re-enacts their responses to acute situations of war and terror, and unfolds their relationships with world leaders, including US Presidents Johnson, Nixon, Carter, and Reagan, US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, and Egyptian President Anwar El Sadat. Based on personal notes, transcripts and correspondence some of which have never before been brought to light The Prime Ministers offers close-up portraits of four remarkable leaders who secured the future of the Jewish state. Includes an index and more than 100 historic photographs and reproduced documents.

Author : Thomas G. Mitchell
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2015-03-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780786497133

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Likud Leaders by Thomas G. Mitchell Pdf

This book is an exploration of the history and ideology of Revisionist Zionism--the stream of Zionism represented by the ruling Likud Party in Israel--from its inception in the 1920s under Vladimir Ze'ev Jabotinsky through its modification under Herut Party leader Menahem Begin to the present. The main features of Revisionist Zionism under Jabotinsky are discussed, with each of the four Likud Party leaders receiving two to three chapters covering his early life, early career and rise to party leadership and his legacy for the party and the state. An overview is given of the 1940s underground careers of Menahem Begin as leader of the paramilitary organization Irgun Zvai Leumi, and Yitzhak Shamir as leader of the Lohemei Herut Israel. In conclusion the author examines common characteristics that the five leaders share and how the party may evolve in the future.

Author : Hillel Seidman,Mordecai Schreiber
Publisher : Shengold Books
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : STANFORD:36105004075334

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Menachem Begin by Hillel Seidman,Mordecai Schreiber Pdf

At last a book that sets the record straight about one of the greatest Jewish leaders of our time. Through personal anecdotes and insights based on years of research, Dr. Seidman, Begin's lifelong friend and a distinguished writer and journalist, pays tribute to the man who played the decisive role in forcing the British out of Palestine, signing a peace treaty with Egypt, and securing the future of the Middle East by destroying Iraq's nuclear reactor. A must for all who are interested in the continued struggle of Israel and the Jewish people.

Author : Avi Shilon
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 584 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2012-11-27
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780300162356

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Menachem Begin by Avi Shilon Pdf

A full-scale portrait of the enigmatic Israeli leader draws on wide-ranging archival research and testimonials by his closest advisors to explore such topics as Begin's antagonistic relationship with David Ben-Gurion, his controversial role in the 1982 Lebanon War, his leadership style and his changing ideologies.

Author : Amos Perlmutter
Publisher : Doubleday Books
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Israel
ISBN : UCAL:B4956559

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The Life and Times of Menachem Begin by Amos Perlmutter Pdf

A distinguished political scientist and journalist presents the first comprehensive biography of Menachem Begin, exploring the inner man behind the complex leader. 31 black-and-white photographs.