Menachem Begin

The passing of Menachem Begin, Israel’s sixth Prime Minister, on March 9th, marked the end of a singular period in the history of the modern State of Israel. To his enemies, Begin was counted a hawkish, intransigent warrior of a bygone day, bereft of a sense of accommodation and compromise so essential to 20th century politics. Indeed, there are those who insist on likening Begin’s resistance