Menachem Begin

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

The discovery of the Altalena wreck has revived old political divisions, with the Right using its legacy as a weapon ahead of Israel’s elections.

 Heritage Minister Amihai Eliyahu attends a protest in Tel Aviv, November 27, 2024
The Irgun's dismantled Altalena ship is seen off the coast of Tel Aviv, 1948. (Archive)

The Altalena’s enduring lesson: Israel must choose unity over division - opinion

The search for the remains of the Altalena, published August 24, 2026.

From lost ship to new battleground: Netanyahu, Ben-Gvir using Altalena in election spat - analysis

THE ‘ALTALENA’ burns off Tel Aviv in June 1948. Its wreckage may lie beneath the Mediterranean, but the political battle over what happened aboard it has never been buried.

Middle Israel: Netanyahu is digging up the Altalena to bury his own record - opinion


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.

Israelis love to argue, just not as candidates in campaign debates

Amsalam said that the debate challenge itself is “humiliating” for the prime minister. “What, everyone will now challenge the prime minister to a debate? Forget it, this is a joke.”

Shimon Peres and Menachem Begin chat at the inaugural session of the 10th Knesset in 1981

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