Menachem Begin
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Menachem Begin was an Israeli politician who founded the political parties Herut and Likud and served as prime minister of Israel from 1977 to 1983.
Begin in 1978
Begin (top center) with his parents, his sister Rachel, and his brother Herzl in Poland, 1932
Begin reviews a Betar lineup in 1939.
NKVD mugshots of Menachem Begin, 1940
Herut
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Herut was the major conservative nationalist political party in Israel from 1948 until its formal merger into Likud in 1988. It was an adherent of Revisionist Zionism.
Menachem Begin
…Menachem Begin (16 August 1913 – 9 March 1992) was an Israeli politician who founded the political parties Herut and Likud and served as prime minister of Israel from 1977 to 1983. Before the creation of the state of Israel, Begin was the leader of the Zionist…
Herut MKs Uri Zvi Greenberg, Esther Raziel Naor, and Menachem Begin, at the first meeting of the Knesset in Jerusalem
An open letter to The New York Times. The letter was signed by over twenty prominent Jewish intellectuals, including Albert Einstein, Hannah Arendt, Zellig Harris, and Sidney Hook.
Menachem Begin addressing a mass demonstration against negotiations with Germany in Tel Aviv 1952
Party membership card in 1956. Note similar logo as the Irgun