Menachem Begin
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 Menachem Begin facts

• 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 1947–48 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 eight consecutive elections (except for a national unity government around the Six-Day War), but became more acceptable to the political center
• His 1977 electoral victory and premiership ended three 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 (IDF) withdrew from the Sinai Peninsula, which was captured from Egypt in the Six-Day War
• Later, Begin’s government promoted the construction of Israeli settlements in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip