And before we can begin contending with its challenges, we must first consider the legacy of the peace treaty that then prime minister Menachem Begin signed with then Egyptian president Anwar Sadat on March 26, 1979.
In 1977, Menachem Begin, leader of Israel's right-wing Likud bloc, became the country's sixth prime minister.
As Menachem Begin instinctively understood, neither Prime Minister Sharon nor President Bush has any need to waver.
His monetarist economic ideas are a deadweight burden on the shoulders of Menachem Begin and the Israeli economy.
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Past leaders of Israel's secular right, Menachem Begin and Yitzhak Shamir, while not socialists, were not active anti-socialists.
He managed the 1977 election campaign for the right-wing Likud's Menachem Begin, and became the first Likud defence minister.
Prime Minister Menachem Begin ordered Defense Minister Ariel Sharon to send Israel's armed forces into Lebanon to drive out the PLO.
The paper said he referred to a 1981 attack ordered by then-Prime Minister Menachem Begin that destroyed a nuclear reactor in Iraq.
As the only son of the late Menachem Begin, prime minister from 1977 to 1983, he is held in high esteem in the Likud.
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Now or never also tripped off the tongue in 1978 when Jimmy Carter invited Egypt's Anwar Sadat and Israel's Menachem Begin to the presidential hideaway.
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Israel has not evacuated a single settlement since it gave up Yamit, in Sinai, in 1982 as part of Menachem Begin's peace with Anwar Sadat.
Last month Wilders visited Israel and was the keynote speaker at a counter-jihad conference at the Menachem Begin Heritage Center in Jerusalem sponsored by MK Dr. Aryeh Eldad.
Shorenstein was also a member of the official United States Delegation for the peace talks with Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin and Egyptian President Anwar Sadat in July of 1978.
Such a long-term quest certainly motivated Menachem Begin, when he sat with Anwar Sadat of Egypt and President Jimmy Carter at the first Camp David summit more than 20 years ago.
He singles out Menachem Begin, the late Israeli prime minister, and blames him for the events at Deir Yassin, a Palestinian Arab village where the killings of civilians occurred in 1948.
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Today's was the second Nobel peace prize awarded to peacemakers in the Middle East, the first being the 1978 joint award to Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Israelia Prime Minister Menachem Begin.
We can imagine that Menachem Begin's example has been very much in Mr. Sharon's mind as he has huddled with his inner cabinet in the wake of yesterday's bombing by Palestinian Arab terrorists.
"I will continue the tradition established by Menachem Begin, who did not allow Iraq to develop such a nuclear threat against Israel, and by a daring and courageous act gave us two decades of tranquility, " Netanyahu was quoted as saying.
Nevertheless, remarkable progress has been made in the 100 years since Theodor Herzl assembled the first Zionist congress, in the half century since David Ben Gurion inaugurated modern Israel, in the two decades since Menachem Begin and Anwar Sadat achieved their breakthrough at Camp David, and even in the four years since former Prime Minister Rabin, Chairman Arafat, and President Clinton met on the White House lawn.
The U.S.-brokered Camp David accords, signed by Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin and Egyptian President Anwar Sadat in 1978, ended a generation of hostilities between the two nations and forged a relationship that has endured, in part, because of the stability of the Mubarak regime -- which came to power after Sadat was assassinated in 1981 -- and in spite of deep animus among rank-and-file Egyptians toward Israel.
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