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Menachem Begin: The Battle for Israel s Soul (Jewish Encounters Series)
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Reviled as a fascist by his great rival BenGurion, venerated by Israels underclass, the first Israeli to win the Nobel Peace Prize, a proud Jew but not a conventionally religious one, Menachem Begin was both complex and controversial. Born in Poland in 1913, Begin was a youthful admirer of the Revisionist Zionist Zeev Jabotinsky and soon became a leader within Jabotinskys Betar movement. A powerful orator and mesmerizing public figure, Begin was imprisoned by the Soviets in 1940, joined the Free Polish Army in 1942, and arrived in Palestine as a Polish soldier shortly thereafter. Joining the underground paramilitary Irgun in 1943, he achieved instant notoriety for the organizations bombings of British military installations and other violent acts.Intentionally left out of the new Israeli government, Begins rightleaning Herut political party became a fixture of the opposition to the Labordominated governments of BenGurion and his successors, until the surprising parliamentary victory of his political coalition in 1977 made him prime minister. Welcoming Egyptian president Anwar Sadat to Israel and cosigning a peace treaty with him on the White House lawn in 1979, Begin accomplished what his predecessors could not. His outreach to Ethiopian Jews and Vietnamese boat people was universally admired, and his decision to bomb Iraqs nuclear reactor in 1981 is now regarded as an act of courageous foresight. But the disastrous invasion of Lebanon to end the PLOs shelling of Israels northern cities, combined with his declining health and the death of his wife, led Begin to resign in 1983. He spent the next nine years in virtual seclusion, until his death in 1992. Begin was buried not alongside Israels prime ministers, but alongside the Irgun comrades who died in the struggle to create the Jewish national home to which he had devoted his life. Daniel Gordiss perceptive biography gives us new insight into a remarkable political figure whose influence continues to be felt both within Israel and throughout the world.This title is part of the Jewish Encounters series.
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