Menachem Begin

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From Joseph’s birth to Entebbe’s rescue, discover the defining Jewish milestones, heroes, tragedies, and triumphs of Tammuz.

 Night view of Prague’s rotating ‘Head of Franz Kafka’ sculpture.
Then-US President Jimmy Carter (C) congratulates Egyptian president Anwar al-Sadat and prime minister Menachem Begin in three-way handshake on March 26, 1979 at the White House, after signing the historic US-sponsored peace treaty between Israel and Egypt.

Israel and Egypt: Frosty neighbors' ties tested by Iran war, but remain stable

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends a Christian Conference in Jerusalem, on April 27, 2025

Israel's opposition shapes a narrative of authoritarianism - opinion

Werner Braun's 1964 picture of five nuns in the Valley of the Cross in Jerusalem is a symphony in monochrome.

Capturing a nation: Werner Braun’s photographic journey


Heroes of Israel provide hope to the nation during war - opinion

The future is bright – because Israel is a land of heroes.

 THE WRITER visits Moshav Netiv Ha’asara following the October 7 attacks.

Donald Trump tells visitors at Miami golf resort: 'I gave you Golan Heights'

The Golan Heights were captured by the State of Israel from Syria in the Six Day War in 1967.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and US President Donald Trump hold up the signed document acknowledging Israeli sovereignty over the Golan Heights, on March 25, 2019

On Israel’s 75th, founding fighters warn internal division could end Zionist dream

War of Independence fighters and a leading historian express concern over the rift brought about by the government’s judicial overhaul.

 Tel Aviv University Prof. (emeritus) Anita Shapira.

This brutal dictator helped bring about the Israel-Egypt peace - opinion

Paradoxically, it was a ruthless Romanian Stalinist who helped initiate the process that started with Sadat’s groundbreaking 1977 visit to Jerusalem.

 THEN-PRIME MINISTER Menachem Begin and then-Romanian president Nicolae Ceausescu walk in the garden of the presidential residence near Bucharest, in August 1977.

Grapevine March 1, 2023: Between Jerusalem and Rome

Movers and shakers in Israeli society.

 SOME OF the members of the Indian Embassy team who ran in the Tel Aviv Marathon.

How should Avraham Stern be remembered? - opinion

The once Zionist renegade is now part of the Israeli mainstream - but was he more terrorist or freedom fighter?

 OVER THE decades since his death, Avraham “Yair” Stern has increasingly edged into the Israeli consensus, says the writer.

Yariv Levin, like Menachem Begin, can stop a Jewish civil war in Israel - analysis

Like his literal godfather Menachem Begin, Yariv Levin has the power to defuse a combustible situation that could conceivably lead to internecine violence in Israel.

 Former Israeli prime minister Menachem Begin and Justice Minister Yariv Levin. The two both had the chance to stop a Jewish civil war.

New AI app lets you talk to historical figures, including Hitler

The "Historical Figures" app allows you to have conversations with any of 20,000 prominent people from history (including some key Israeli figures).

Adolf Hitler (R) with Commander-in-Chief of the German Army Walther von Brauchitsch, Warsaw, October 1939

Letters to the Editor January 16, 2023: Leave their cocoons

Readers of The Jerusalem Post have their say.

 Letters

Looking back at Egypt's Anwar Sadat's historic Jerusalem visit, 45 years ago - opinion

Anwar Sadat's visit was a game-changer: A harbinger of what Shimon Peres would later call “the new Middle East.”

 PRESIDENT ANWAR Sadat confers with prime minister Menachem Begin during Sadat’s historic visit to Jerusalem in November 1977