BEGIN (Menachem, 1913-1992, Israeli Politician, Founder of Likud and 6th Prime Minister of Israel)

Black and White Photograph signed with accompanying compliments slip, showing him head and shoulders full face, looking stern, 7" 5", no place, no date, circa

Before the creation of the state of Israel, he was the leader of the Zionist militant group Irgun, the Revisionist breakaway from the larger Jewish paramilitary organization Haganah. He proclaimed a revolt, on 1st February 1944, against the British mandatory government, which was opposed by the Jewish Agency. As head of the Irgun, he targeted the British in Palestine. Later, the Irgun fought the Arabs during the 1947–48 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine.

Item Date:  1990

Stock No:  39960