World & Nation
While I do not take that much time for world politics, I did feel that the world lost a very unusual man in Menachem Begin (“Begin, 78, Dies; Led Israel to Peace and War,” March 9).
March 18, 1992
Former Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin, who has lived in virtual isolation since his abrupt resignation in 1983, has been hospitalized for several days, a hospital spokesman said.
April 19, 1987
Former Prime Minister Menachem Begin, who led Israel to peace with Egypt nearly 10 years ago, celebrated his 75th birthday Friday, receiving a visit from Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir and a symbolic gift of 75 trees from Jerusalem Mayor Teddy Kollek.
July 30, 1988
Israel’s right-wing Herut Party, linchpin of the Likud Bloc, opened its convention, and former Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin named Foreign Minister Yitzhak Shamir as his choice to succeed him as leader of the divided party.
March 10, 1986
Israel solemnly buried Menachem Begin on Monday and debated which of the former prime minister’s ideas to bury with him and which to keep alive.
March 10, 1992
The only son of former Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin, 45-year-old geologist Benyamin Begin, will attempt to run for the Knesset (Parliament) in November as a nominee of his father’s rightist Likud Bloc, party aides said Sunday.
June 6, 1988
Former Prime Minister Menachem Begin, who won the Nobel Peace Prize for leading Israel to peace with Egypt, suffered a heart attack Tuesday and was unconscious and partially paralyzed in a Tel Aviv hospital.
March 4, 1992
Checking Begin’s military record
March 8, 2009
As head of the government that sent Israeli troops into Lebanon and initiated policies now blamed for bringing the country to the verge of economic collapse, former Prime Minister Menachem Begin has not lately been the subject of much public praise.
Jan. 11, 1985
Former Prime Minister Menachem Begin was hospitalized today after complaining of weakness and is expected to undergo several days of tests, a hospital official said.
May 16, 1990