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Menachem Begin: A New LifeFriday, May 3, 2013 by Asaf Romirowsky | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
Ensuring that another Holocaust would never take place was Menachem Begin's paramount concern, even when he was Prime Minister of Israel, pursuing Yasir Arafat in his Beirut bunker.
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Raising the Altalena Matthew Bell, BBC. Ben-Gurion's 1948 decision to the sink the Altalena reflected his determination to dominate Begin's Irgun. A new project to raise the ship will also exhume their rivalry.
Jabotinsky's Dream Rafael Medoff, JNS. Half a century before liberal Jewish activists made common cause with the civil rights movement, the revisionist Zionist was already speaking out against racism in the U.S. and South Africa.
The Radical Path Niv Elis, Tablet. With Sunday marking the 66th anniversary of the Irgun’s bombing of the King David Hotel, one of the last surviving perpetrators recalls the operation—and how he claims it went awry.