(“andrews air force base”)
(‘maryland’ / ‘USA’)
(‘age 64’)
,*the faithfully departed*
(’16 august 1913′ – ‘9 march 1992’)
(born in ‘russia’)
(doed in ‘israel’)
(‘tel aviv’)
(died @ ‘age 78’)
(8 days after suffering a massive ‘heart attack’)
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(“menachem begin” (
listen (help·info); hebrew: מְנַחֵם בֵּגִין menaḥem begin, polish: mieczysław biegun; russian: mенахем Вольфович БегинMenakhem volfovich begin; ’16 august 1913′ – ‘9 march 1992’) was an ‘israeli politician’, founder of ‘likud’ and the 6th “prime minister’ of ‘israel’)
(he was born in ‘russia’)
(before the creation of the state of ‘israel’, he was the leader of the zionist militant group ‘irgun’, the ‘revisionist breakaway’ from the larger jewish paramilitary organization ‘haganah’)
(he proclaimed a ‘revolt’ (on ‘1 february 1944’) against the ‘british mandatory government’, which was opposed by the ‘jewish agency’)
(as head of the ‘irgun’, he targeted the ‘british’ in ‘palestine’)
(later, the ‘irgun’ fought the ‘arabs’ during the ‘1947 – 1948 civil war’ in ‘mandatory palestine’)
(‘begin’ was elected to the first ‘knesset’, as head of ‘herut’ (the party he founded), and was at first on the ‘political fringe’, embodying the opposition to the ‘mapai-led government’ and ‘israeli establishment’)
(he remained in ‘opposition’ in the 8 consecutive elections (except for a ‘national unity government’ around the ‘6-day war’), but became more acceptable to the ‘political center’)
(his ‘1977 electoral victory’ and ‘premiership’ ended 3 decades of ‘labor party’ political dominance)
(begin’s most significant achievement as ‘prime minister’ was the signing of a ‘peace treaty’ with ‘egypt’ in ‘1979’, for which he and ‘anwar sadat’ shared the ”nobel prize’ for ‘peace”)
(in the wake of the ‘camp david accords’, the ‘israel defense forces’ (or ‘IDF’) withdrew from the ‘sinai peninsula’, which was captured from ‘egypt’ in the ‘6-day war’)
(later, begin’s government promoted the construction of ‘israeli settlements’ in the ‘west bank’ and the ‘gaza strip’)
(‘begin’ authorized the bombing of the ‘osirak nuclear plant’ in ‘iraq’ and the invasion of ‘lebanon’ in ‘1982’ to fight ‘PLO strongholds’ there, igniting the ‘1982 lebanon war’)
(as ‘israeli military involvement’ in ‘lebanon’ deepened, and the ”sabra’ and ‘shatila’ massacre’ (carried out by ‘christian ‘phalangist’ militia allies’ of the ‘israelis’) shocked ‘world public opinion’, ‘begin’ grew increasingly ‘isolated’)
(as ‘IDF forces’ remained mired in ‘lebanon’ and the ‘economy’ suffered from ‘hyperinflation’, the ‘public pressure’ on ‘begin’ mounted)
(depressed by the death of his wife ‘aliza’ in ‘november 1982’, he gradually withdrew from public life, until his resignation in ‘october 1983’)
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