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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 650

Menachem Begin

(L-R) India's Defense Minister Rajnath Singh, Iran's Defence Minister Aziz Nasirzadeh, Kazakhstan's Defense Minister Dauren Kossanov, China's Defense Minister Dong Jun, Kyrgyzstan's Defense Minister Ruslan Mukambetov, Pakistan's Defense Minister Khawaja Muhammad Asif, and Russia's Defense Minister Andrei Belousov gather for a group photo during the Defense Ministers' Meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) Member States in Qingdao, in eastern China's Shandong province on June 26, 2025. (Photo by Pedro PARDO / AFP)
June 27, 2025, 8:49 am
Friday Focus with Lazar Berman: Israel-Iran war’s aftershocks for Russia and China
ToI’s diplomatic correspondent delves into how the war has shifted approaches and positions for Russia, China, Turkey and the big fish — Saudi Arabia
By Amanda Borschel-Dan and Lazar Berman
The IDF pilots who participated in the Operation Opera bombing of Saddam Hussein's nuclear reactor at Osirak in 1981. (Israel Defense Force archive)
June 20, 2025, 8:44 am
Friday Focus with Lazar Berman: How Israel stopped the bomb in 1981 and 2007
ToI’s diplomatic reporter delves into two previous operations in which Israel preemptively struck budding nuclear weapons programs — in Iraq and in Syria
By Amanda Borschel-Dan and Lazar Berman
Cartoon illustrating Israelis' first election, January 25, 1948. (AP Photo/H. E. Munhall)
May 1, 2025, 11:58 am
Daily Briefing May 1: Day 573 – Ben-Gurion’s anguish upon the founding of Israel
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
By Amanda Borschel-Dan and Haviv Rettig Gur
A dedication from former US Ambassador to Israel Samuel Lewis to former PM Menachem Begin in a copy of Henry Kissinger's "Years of Upheaval," found at Jerusalem's Park Hamesila book station on Tuesday. (Shuki Ben Naim/Facebook)
February 19, 2025, 12:12 am
Book with dedication from US ambassador to PM Begin found at Jerusalem book swap station
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’
By ToI Staff
Golda Meir, Israel's prime minister from 1983-1984, 1969-1974, as envisioned in Gavin Rain's artwork, part of the Prime Ministers in Perspective exhibit at Jerusalem's Biennale Gallery, April 23, 2023 through May 7, 2023. (Courtesy, Clive Hassel/Reproduction of Artists Works for Brandsmiths and Myron Zeidel)
April 24, 2023, 11:40 pm
Artist connects the dots for a new look at Israel’s leaders
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
By Jessica Steinberg
Then-prime minister Menachem Begin during a debate in the Knesset on March 20, 1979. (AP Photo/Max Nash/File)
April 16, 2023, 9:37 pm
Aides speak of ex-PM Begin’s depression, dysfunction near end of time in office
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
By Michael Horovitz
Then-MK Benny Begin on a tour of the northern city of Katzrin in the Golan Heights on April 27, 2022. (Michael Giladi/Flash90)
February 14, 2023, 2:37 pm
Amid judicial overhaul, Benny Begin says nothing left of his father’s Likud
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
By ToI Staff
Then-prime minister Menachem Begin during a debate in the Knesset on March 20, 1979. (AP Photo/Max Nash/File)
January 24, 2023, 1:35 pm
‘There are judges in Jerusalem’: A famous Begin quote or misquote?
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
By Amy Spiro
New Hope MK Benny Begin leads a Knesset committee meeting on December 19, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/ Flash90)
July 28, 2022, 9:16 pm
MK Benny Begin, son of first Likud PM, leaves politics
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
By ToI Staff
Israeli troops in Lebanon, 1982. (Michael Zarfati / IDF Spokesperson's Unit)
June 19, 2022, 9:04 am
40 years after the First Lebanon War, Israel’s wounds still aren’t healed
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
By Lazar Berman
David Harbour in a scene from season four of 'Stranger Things.' (Screenshot from YouTube/JTA)
May 28, 2022, 10:53 am
‘Stranger Things’ filmed in Lithuania jail where Nazis held Jews
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
By PHILISSA CRAMER
In this November 16, 1980 file photo, Israeli prime minister Menachem Begin as he appeared on the ABC program 'Good Morning America.' (AP Photo, File)
June 11, 2021, 10:30 am
Podcast: Meet the prime minister who led Israel’s first political ‘Upheaval’
For director Jonathan Gruber, Menachem Begin’s messages of fighting for Jewish pride and accepting all Jews as brothers has never been more timely
By ToI Staff
June 6, 2021, 2:07 pm
The Menachem Begin Symposium
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
US Vice President Walter Mondale wearing a skullcap puts a note of his wish into the Western Wall June 30, 1978 in Jerusalem, which he visited with his wife and daughter. (AP Photo/Max Nash)
April 21, 2021, 3:23 am
Walter Mondale was a liberal icon who championed Israel
Former vice president played a key role in Israeli-Egypt peace talks and won staunch support from American Jews throughout his career
By Ron Kampeas
New Hope leader Gideon Sa'ar (left) welcomes Benny Begin to his party, January 21, 2020 (Courtesy)
January 21, 2021, 2:45 pm
Former Likud MK Benny Begin, son of late PM, joins Sa’ar’s New Hope
Iconic Likud founder Menachem Begin’s son, who himself was party MK for 18 years, says Netanyahu government carrying out ‘nasty, crude’ attacks on state bodies, must be replaced
By ToI Staff
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