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Menachem Begin, father of Israel's right wing and sixth prime minister of the nation, was known for his unflinchingly hawkish ideology.
Born in Poland in 1913, Begin was a youthful admirer of the Revisionist Zionist Ze'ev Jabotinsky and soon became a leader within Jabotinsky's Betar movement.
This riveting biography is the first to provide a satisfactory answer to the question, Who was Menachem Begin?

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Menachem Keren-Kratz

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Rabbi Yoel Teitelbaum was born in 1887 to his father Rabbi Hanania Yom-Tov Lipa Teitelbaum, chief... more Rabbi Yoel Teitelbaum was born in 1887 to his father Rabbi Hanania Yom-Tov Lipa Teitelbaum, chief rabbi of Sighet, the capital of Maramureş County, Hungary. The father was a Rebbe to his Hasidim, headed the local yeshiva, and was one of the top leaders of Hungarian Orthodoxy. During his childhood, Rabbi Yoel was known as a prodigy but was not destined to continue the family’s Hasidic or rabbinic dynasty, as this role was reserved for his older brother - Rabbi Haim Tzvi. At seventeen, soon after his father’s death and the ordination of his older brother as his successor, the newlywed Rabbi Yoel and his wife were forced to leave Sighet.

They settled in nearby Satmar (Satu Mare) where Rabbi Yoel began gathering a small group of disciples. Several years later he was elected as chief rabbi of the remote village Orshiva, but

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Menachem Begin: A Life 9780300189032

Table of contents :
CONTENTS
PREFACE
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
ONE Political Talent
TWO A Commander’s Getaway
THREE Going Underground
FOUR Declaration of Rebellion
FIVE A Bomb in the Heart of the Empire
SIX Jubilation and Disappointment
SEVEN Rejected and Outcast
EIGHT Be Killed but Do Not Transgress
NINE Buds of Legitimacy
TEN The Breakthrough
ELEVEN Once More a Rebel
TWELVE Against Expectations
THIRTEEN God, You Have Chosen Us to Rule
FOURTEEN No More War
FIFTEEN Deterioration
SIXTEEN The Begin Doctrine
SEVENTEEN King of Israel
EIGHTEEN “There Will Be Not a Single Katyusha”
NINETEEN The Downfall
TWENTY Self- Flagellation
TWENTY- ONE “Sharon Was Afraid of Me”
EPILOGUE
NOTES
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX

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MENACHEM BEGIN A Life

AVI SHILON Translated from the Hebrew by Danielle Zilberberg & Yoram Sharett

N E W H AV E N & LO N D O N

Published with assistance from the foundation established in memory of Amasa Stone Mather of the Class of 1907, Yale College. Originally published in He

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In Gratitude: Philip Krawitz

On Wednesday, June 17, 2015, at a festive ceremony held in Jerusalem, the Yakir Keren Hayesod award was bestowed upon Chairman of the United Jewish Campaign’s Board of Trustees, Philip J. Krawitz. During this moving evening, a short video clip produced in his honor was screened, with Mayor of Raanana Zeev Bielsky, former Chairman of the Jewish Agency and member of the Knesset, saying warm words of praise about him. Philip and the three other 2015 Yakir KH Award recipients were personally congratulated by both President Reuven Rivlin and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, with whom they met earlier that day.

Philip was born to Arthur and Clare Krawitz on March 29, 1950. His grandparents had emigrated to South Africa from Poland, Lithuania and the United Kingdom in the late 19th Century. Philip’s maternal grandfather, Joseph Ratzker, was a stalwart of the Johannesburg Jewish Community where he founded organisations such as the Chevra Kadisha and the Hebrew Benevolent Society. He also laid the foundation stone of the Yeoville Street Synagogue and