Menachem Begin

His coffin was carried four kilometers from the Sanhedria Funeral Parlor to Mount of Olives in a funeral procession attended by thousands of people. However public dissatisfaction reached a peak in September 1982 after the Sabra and Shatila Massacre. In September 1939 after Nazi Germany invaded Poland Begin in common with a large part of Warsaw's Jewish leadership escaped to Wilno (today Vilnius) then eastern Poland to avoid inevitable arrest.

[About this sound] Menachem Begin (help·info) (Hebrew: מְנַחֵם בֵּגִין Polish: Mieczysław Biegun Russian: Менахем Вольфович Бегин Menakhem Vol'fovich Begin 16 August 1913 – 9 March 1992) was an Israeli politician founder of Likud and the sixth Prime Minister of the State of Israel. Depressed by the death of his wife Aliza in November 1982 he gradually withdrew from public life until his resignation in October 1983. His 1977 electoral victory and premiership ended three decades of Labour Party political dominance.