Menachem Begin (1913-1992) was active in the movement to establish an independent Jewish state in Palestine and in the early Israeli government. After serving many years in the Knesset, Begin became Israel's first non-Socialist prime minister in 1977....

IT WAS difficult, even at moments when he was at his most vexing and pugnacious, not to harbor a certain admiration for the integrity of Menachem Begin. In an age - was there ever any other? - when so many politicians changed position in...

THE LIFE AND TIMES OF MENACHEM BEGIN By Amos Perlmutter Doubleday. 444 pp. $21.95 TO WIN OR TO DIE A Personal Portrait Of Menachem Begin By Ned Temko Morrow. 460 pp. $18.95 FOR ONE brief season in a stormy 60-year career in politics,...

Nobel Peace Prize winners since 1975:_ 2007: Former Vice President Al Gore and the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, for efforts to educate about the effects of man-made climate change._ 2006: Muhammad Yunus and Grameen Bank, the Bangladeshi bank he founded._ 2005: Mohamed ElBaradei,...

A look at Mideast peace conferences with U.S. involvement:_Sept. 5-17, 1978, Camp David, Thurmont, Md.:The participants are President Jimmy Carter, Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin. Sadat and Begin sign agreements with Carter. Under the first, Israel returns the Sinai, occupied...