Gordis, Daniel – Menachem Begin The Battle for Israel s Soul – Schocken (2014)
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Name: Gordis, Daniel – Menachem Begin The Battle for Israel s Soul – Schocken (2014)
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Title: Menachem Begin
Author: Daniel Gordis
Language: English
Year: 2014
Subjects: N/A
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN: 9780805243123
Total pages: 320 str.
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Reviled as a fascist by his great rival Ben-Gurion, venerated by Israel’s 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 Ze’ev Jabotinsky and soon became a leader within Jabotinsky’s 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 organization’s bombings of British military installations and other violent acts.
Intentionally left out of the new Israeli government, Begin’s right-leaning Herut political party became a fixture of the opposition to the Labor-dominated governments of Ben-Gurion and his successors, until the surprising…
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