Former Irgun commander Menachem Begin, leader of the opposition Herut Party, paid his first visit to South Africa in the autumn of 1953. Hertzel Katz, an Israeli attorney who was a leader of the local ...

Under the agreement, the Irgun retains its own forces, but it will refrain from separate operations and obey the orders of the Haganah Supreme Command which, incidentally, has announced the ...

At the time, civil war was averted, largely thanks to the cool-headed sagacity of Menachem Begin, the former commander of the Irgun and the leader of the newly formed Herut movement. It is said ...

He was not his brother’s keeper. In 1944, Menachem Begin, the future prime minister and the newly appointed leader of the Irgun, an underground army during the British mandate, declared a revolt ...