People from Brest, Belarus - Menachem Begin, David Dubinsky, Josef Gingold, YA'Akov Hazan, Sara Szweber, Yulia Nestsiarenka (Paperback)

Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Menachem Begin, David Dubinsky, Josef Gingold, Ya'akov Hazan, Sara Szweber, Yulia Nestsiarenka, Kazimierz Nestor Sapieha, Roman Voloshenko, Aleksandr Prokhorov, Vincuk Via orka, Abraham Kupchik, Gennadi Bondaruk, Igor Kornelyuk, U adzimir Karvat, Anna Sharevich, Vitaly Yurchik, Andrej Dy ko. Source: Wikipedia. Free updates online. Not illustrated. Excerpt: .) (Hebrew:, Polish:, Russian:, 16 August 1913 9 March 1992) was an Israeli politician and the sixth Prime Minister of the State of Israel. Before independence, he was the leader of the Zionist militant Irgun, the Revisionist breakaway from the larger 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 faction within Zionism. 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 Labour Party political dominance. Begins 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 withdrew from the Sinai Peninsula, which was captured from Egypt in the Six-Day War. Later, Begins government promoted the construction of Israeli s...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=20767