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This page is subject to the extended confirmed restriction related to the Arab-Israeli conflict. Menachem Begin מנחם בגין Begin in 1978 6th Prime Minister of Israel In office 21 June 1977 – 10 October 1983 President Ephraim Katzir Yitzhak Navon Chaim Herzog Preceded by Yitzhak Rabin Succeeded by Yitzhak Shamir Ministerial roles 1967–1970 Minister in the PM's Office 1980–1981 ...
This page is subject to the extended confirmed restriction related to the Arab-Israeli conflict. Prime Minister of Israel (1983–1984; 1986–1992) Yitzhak Shamir יצחק שמיר Shamir in 1992 7th Prime Minister of Israel In office October 20, 1986 – July 13, 1992 President Chaim Herzog Preceded by Shimon Peres Succeeded by Yitzhak Rabin In office October 10, 1983 – September 13, 1984 ...
Most of the Jewish forces that attacked Deir Yassin belonged to two extremist, underground, militias, the Irgun (Etzel, abbreviated IZL) (National Military Organization), led by Menachem Begin, and the Lehi (Fighters for the Freedom of Israel, abbreviated LHI), also known as the Stern Gang, both aligned with the right-wing Revisionist Zionist ...
Menachem Begin (left) inspecting members of the Irgun in Jerusalem, August 1948. Irgun fighters training in 1947 Irgun parade in 1948 UNSCOP's conclusion was a unanimous decision to end the British mandate, and a majority decision to divide Mandatory Palestine (the land west of the Jordan River ) between a Jewish state and an Arab state.
This page is subject to the extended confirmed restriction related to the Arab-Israeli conflict. Altalena Affair Part of the 1948 Arab–Israeli War Altalena on fire after being shelled near Tel Aviv Date 20 June – 23 June 1948 Location Coast of Israel Result IDF victory Civil war averted after Irgun leader Menachem Begin orders his followers not to retaliate Most arrested Irgun members ...
The Revolt, Menachem Begin's book on the Irgun, which was published in Britain in 1951, made references to a "high official" having received a warning but refusing to evacuate the hotel in time. Shaw, believing this to be a reference to himself, considered suing Begin and his British publisher for libel and consulted with his personal attorney ...
The Irgun was now led by Menachem Begin, who had headed Betar in Poland before arriving in Palestine with the Polish forces in exile and going underground. Begin believed that the only way to save European Jewry was to compel the British to leave Palestine as fast as possible and open the country to unrestricted Jewish immigration.
The Sergeants affair (Hebrew: פרשת הסרג'נטים) was an incident that took place in July 1947 during Jewish insurgency in Mandatory Palestine, in which the Jewish underground group Irgun abducted two British Army Intelligence Corps NCOs, Sergeant Clifford Martin and Sergeant Mervyn Paice, and threatened to hang them if the death sentences passed on three Irgun militants—Avshalom ...