The Times of Israel https://www.timesofisrael.com/topic/menachem-begin/ News from Israel, the Middle East and the Jewish World Tue, 09 Jun 2026 16:00:28 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://static-cdn.toi-media.com/www/uploads/2018/11/toi_icon_512-200x200.png Menachem Begin | The Times of Israel https://www.timesofisrael.com/topic/menachem-begin/ 32 32 Menachem Begin’s grandson pushes forward with art in solo show, during country’s painful ‘limbo’ https://www.timesofisrael.com/menachem-begins-grandson-pushes-forward-with-art-in-solo-show-during-countrys-painful-limbo/ Thu, 25 Sep 2025 13:32:47 +0000 https://www.timesofisrael.com/?p=3647465 Focusing on walls -- and tunnels -- Avinadav Begin prepares to close solo exhibition, laments gaping differences between his grandfather's Likud and the current Netanyahu-led party

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]]> Friday Focus with Lazar Berman: Israel-Iran war’s aftershocks for Russia and China https://www.timesofisrael.com/friday-focus-with-lazar-berman-12-day-israel-iran-wars-aftershocks-for-russia-and-china/ Fri, 27 Jun 2025 05:49:32 +0000 https://www.timesofisrael.com/?p=3585384&preview=true&preview_id=3585384 ToI's diplomatic correspondent delves into how the war has shifted approaches and positions for Russia, China, Turkey and the big fish -- Saudi Arabia

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]]> Friday Focus with Lazar Berman: How Israel stopped the bomb in 1981 and 2007 https://www.timesofisrael.com/friday-focus-with-lazar-berman-how-israel-stopped-the-bomb-in-1981-and-2007/ Fri, 20 Jun 2025 05:44:32 +0000 https://www.timesofisrael.com/?p=3578631&preview=true&preview_id=3578631 ToI's diplomatic reporter delves into two previous operations in which Israel preemptively struck budding nuclear weapons programs -- in Iraq and in Syria

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]]> Daily Briefing May 1: Day 573 – Ben-Gurion’s anguish upon the founding of Israel https://www.timesofisrael.com/daily-briefing-may-1-day-573-ben-gurions-anguish-upon-the-founding-of-israel/ Thu, 01 May 2025 08:58:41 +0000 https://www.timesofisrael.com/?p=3538981&preview=true&preview_id=3538981 In a special Independence Day episode, senior analyst Haviv Rettig Gur takes us back to the first prime minister's conflicted emotions as the nascent state fought enemies and division

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]]> Book with dedication from US ambassador to PM Begin found at Jerusalem book swap station https://www.timesofisrael.com/dedication-from-nixon-era-ambassador-to-begin-found-at-jerusalem-book-swap-station/ Tue, 18 Feb 2025 22:12:38 +0000 https://www.timesofisrael.com/?p=3485679 Short note from Samuel Lewis, US envoy from 1977 to 1985, in a book by Kissinger on the Nixon era, offers former premier 'the highest admiration and respect'

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]]> Artist connects the dots for a new look at Israel’s leaders https://www.timesofisrael.com/artist-connects-the-dots-for-a-new-look-at-israels-leaders/ Mon, 24 Apr 2023 20:40:02 +0000 https://www.timesofisrael.com/?p=3001742 Exhibit of 12 neo-pointillist portraits of prime ministers offers fresh perspectives for Israel's 75th, at Jerusalem Biennale Gallery in old Shaare Zedek building

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]]> Aides speak of ex-PM Begin’s depression, dysfunction near end of time in office https://www.timesofisrael.com/aides-speak-of-ex-pm-begins-depression-dysfunction-near-end-of-time-in-office/ Sun, 16 Apr 2023 18:37:38 +0000 https://www.timesofisrael.com/?p=2996277 Biographer says signs of mental illness were 'very clear' as premier struggled with Lebanon War fallout, wife's death; in unaired interview segment, Begin said he took pills

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]]> Amid judicial overhaul, Benny Begin says nothing left of his father’s Likud https://www.timesofisrael.com/amid-judicial-overhaul-benny-begin-says-nothing-left-of-his-fathers-likud/ Tue, 14 Feb 2023 12:37:45 +0000 https://www.timesofisrael.com/?p=2951205 Son of ex-PM Menachem Begin laments party's path; senior Likud members said concerned Netanyahu may agree to compromise over judicial reforms, vow to split from party if he does

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]]> ‘There are judges in Jerusalem’: A famous Begin quote or misquote? https://www.timesofisrael.com/there-are-judges-in-jerusalem-a-famous-begin-quote-or-misquote/ Tue, 24 Jan 2023 11:35:49 +0000 https://www.timesofisrael.com/?p=2932920 As discourse over the judicial system reaches a fever pitch, the former prime minister’s purported words echo louder than ever – even if he never said them

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]]> MK Benny Begin, son of first Likud PM, leaves politics https://www.timesofisrael.com/mk-benny-begin-son-of-first-likud-pm-leaves-politics/ Thu, 28 Jul 2022 18:16:16 +0000 https://www.timesofisrael.com/?p=2807817 New Hope lawmaker, 79, cites old age as main factor in decision, but says he will support the faction in coming election campaign; Lapid praises 'ethical, diligent' legislator

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]]> 40 years after the First Lebanon War, Israel’s wounds still aren’t healed https://www.timesofisrael.com/forty-years-later-israels-scars-from-first-lebanon-war-still-havent-healed/ Sun, 19 Jun 2022 06:04:28 +0000 https://www.timesofisrael.com/?p=2779994 As country ponders complex legacy of 1982's Operation Peace for Galilee, the fear of getting stuck in hostile territory and the distrust of leaders remain

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]]> ‘Stranger Things’ filmed in Lithuania jail where Nazis held Jews https://www.timesofisrael.com/stranger-things-filmed-in-lithuanian-prison-where-nazis-jailed-jews/ Sat, 28 May 2022 07:53:05 +0000 https://www.timesofisrael.com/?p=2771021 Season 4 of Netflix teen hero sci-fi series features scenes shot at Lukiškės Prison in Vilnius; Menachem Begin was jailed there in 1940 for Zionist activity in Soviet Union

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]]> Podcast: Meet the prime minister who led Israel’s first political ‘Upheaval’ https://www.timesofisrael.com/podcast-meet-the-israeli-pm-who-staged-the-countrys-1st-political-upheaval/ Fri, 11 Jun 2021 07:30:39 +0000 https://www.timesofisrael.com/?p=2562221 For director Jonathan Gruber, Menachem Begin's messages of fighting for Jewish pride and accepting all Jews as brothers has never been more timely

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]]> The Menachem Begin Symposium https://www.timesofisrael.com/the-menachem-begin-symposium/ Sun, 06 Jun 2021 11:07:30 +0000 https://www.timesofisrael.com/?p=2559037 Live today at 12 noon ET / 7 p.m. Israel: On the 40th Anniversary of the Osirak nuclear reactor bombing, hear about the rising threat of antisemitism around the world

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]]> Walter Mondale was a liberal icon who championed Israel https://www.timesofisrael.com/walter-mondale-was-a-liberal-icon-who-championed-israel/ Wed, 21 Apr 2021 00:23:40 +0000 https://www.timesofisrael.com/?p=2528131 Former vice president played a key role in Israeli-Egypt peace talks and won staunch support from American Jews throughout his career

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