(Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin speaking to the Israeli parliament, the Knesset advocating acceptance of the Camp David accords, March 20, 1979. Future Israeli Prime Minister, Yitzchak Shamir is seated to his right.)
In exploring the creation of the state of Israel over the last 67 years the dominant figure that emerges is David Ben-Gurion. The head of the Jewish Agency before and after World War II, Ben-Gurion guided the nascent Israeli state and dominated its politics for decades. However, another transformative figure emerged during the same time period that many outside Israel seem to avoid giving him his due, Menachem Begin. Whether speaking about Begin’s leadership of the Irgun and the pressure he placed on the British to relinquish its Palestinian mandate; his political leadership that brought about his election to the Prime Minister’s office in 1977 which fundamentally realigned Israeli politics to this day; or his evolution as…
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