Menachem Begin (left) inspecting members of the Irgun in Jerusalem, August 1948. In December 1947, immediately following the UN partition vote, the 1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine broke out between the Yishuv and Palestinian Arabs.

2025年3月5日 · Menachem Begin was a Zionist leader who was prime minister of Israel from 1977 to 1983. Begin was the corecipient, with Egyptian Pres. Anwar el-Sādāt, of the 1978 Nobel Prize for Peace for their achievement of a peace treaty between Israel and Egypt that was formally signed in 1979.

On April 2, 1979, Begin became the first Israeli Prime Minister to visit Cairo. Begin invested national resources in development programs for Israel’s poorer neighborhoods and sought to liberalize Israel’s economy.

On June 20, 1977, Mr. Menachem Begin, head of the Likud party – after having won the Knesset elections (17 May 1977) – presented the new Government to the Knesset and became Prime Minister of Israel.

Born: 16 August 1913, Brest Litovsk, Russian Empire (now Belarus) Died: 9 March 1992, Tel Aviv, Israel. Residence at the time of the award: Israel. Role: Prime Minister of Israel. Prize motivation: “for jointly having negotiated peace between Egypt and Israel in 1978” Prize share: 1/2.

1992年3月9日 · Menachem Begin was active in both the movement to establish an independent Jewish state in Palestine and in the early Israeli government. After serving many years in the Knesset (the Israeli legislature), Begin became Israel's prime minister in 1977.

Menachem Begin (16 August 1913 – 9 March 1992) was an Israeli politician. Originally a Zionist activist in Eastern Europe, he later became Prime Minister of Israel. The Begin family of Brest-Litovsk Jewish community; Back row: Left to right: Herzl; Menahem; Rachel [Begin] Halpern. In Front left to right:Hassia and Zeev Dov Begin 12 December 1932.

Menachem Begin, the Israeli Prime Minister who made peace with Egypt, lived much of his life in the opposition. A Jewish underground leader before Israel gained independence in...

Menachem Begin was a controversial person. Many disliked him for his enduring dream of a greater Israel encompassing all of Palestine, and for his leadership in the 1940s of a Zionist organisation in Palestine which had used terror to realise its aims.

Biography: Israeli politician, founder of Likud and the sixth Prime Minister of the State of Israel. Before the creation of the state of Israel, he was the leader of the Zionist militant group Irgun, the Revisionist breakaway from the larger Jewish paramilitary organization Haganah.