AS SEEN ON TV: MENACHEM BEGIN

MENACHEM BEGIN

AS SEEN IN:
"The Raid on Entebbe"

AS PLAYED BY:
David Opatashu

Menachem Begin (16 August 1913 – 9 March 1992) became the sixth prime minister of the State of Israel. Before the independence, he was the leader of the Irgun, a revisionist breakaway from the larger mainstream Jewish paramilitary organization Haganah. He proclaimed a revolt, on February 1, 1944, against the British mandatory government, which was opposed by the Jewish Agency. He played a significant role in Jewish resistance against the British control in the waning years of the mandate, leading the more militant Zionists.

MENACHEM BEGIN
[with ANWAR SADAT]

AS SEEN IN:
"Sadat"

AS PLAYED BY:
Barry Morse
[Lou Gossett, Jr. as Sadat]

Begin’s most significant achievement as prime minister was signing 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 withdrew from the Sinai Peninsula and returned the Egyptian territories captured in the Six-Day War.
[from Wikipedia]

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