Menachem Begin
A visitor center with an amphitheater, synagogue and research library aims to breathe new life into the ancient cemetery on “Har Hazeitim.”
The weapon used to fire on the Irgun vessel was nicknamed the “holy cannon” by Israeli Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion.
The 1948 destruction of the Irgun ship is politically contentious to this day.
The U.S. president, who said years ago that Washington should defund Israel if Jerusalem used cluster bombs, is now sending the same weapons to Kyiv.
American-Israeli historian to Bennett: ‘Give us some vision’
“What we need today are muscular moderates who speak for the silenced majority,” says professor Gil Troy.
“Both [Yitzhak] Rabin and [Menachem] Begin proved time and time again that when it came to issues of security they took action,” said Defense Minister Benny Gantz.
Begin Symposium kicks off in Jerusalem • Pastor John Hagee is awarded the Menachem Begin Support of Israel Award.
Hear from two major Jewish philanthropists about what the former Israeli prime minister’s life should mean to American Jewry and Jewish Identity.
Minister of Aliyah and Integration Pnina Tamano-Shata was honored for her work in the struggle for social equality and against injustices for disadvantaged communities with a focus on the Ethiopian community.
“Upheaval” is part of a larger effort to tell the story of the Jewish nation’s founding to young Jews, many of whom have barely a passing knowledge of the country, its accomplishments and its continuing struggles to survive.
The Choral Synagogue was built in the mid-19th century for one of the biggest and most thriving Jewish communities of Galicia.
The treaty consisted of the normalization of relations and ended the state of war begun in 1948, when Israel declared its independence.
