Menachem Begin

Yitzhak Shamir dies at 96; former Israeli prime minister

2012-07-01 00:00:00

JERUSALEM — Yitzhak Shamir, the onetime underground Jewish fighter and long-serving Israeli prime minister whose unyielding belief in the right of Jews to all of the biblical Land of Israel often exasperated U.S. policymakers, has died. He was 96....

Obama's real Israel problem -- and it isn't Bibi [Blowback]

2012-01-06 16:35:43

PASSINGS: Dov Shilansky

2010-12-13 00:00:00

Dov Shilansky He began recitations of Holocaust victims' names Dov Shilansky, 86, a former Israeli Parliament speaker and advocate for memorializing victims of the Holocaust, died Thursday at a Tel Aviv hospital. The cause was not given. Shilansky...

Book review: 'White House Diary' by Jimmy Carter

2010-09-21 00:00:00

Presidents Jimmy Carter and Herbert Hoover might be bracketed together for a number of reasons. Both were engineers by training, shared an almost theological faith in the chimera of governmental efficiency, believed effective management grew from close...

Israel glorifies its own murderers

2010-03-25 13:48:00

In their March 17 Times Op-Ed article, "Why glorify the murderers?" Ron Kehrmann, Yossi Mendelevich and Yossi Zur make a number of misleading statements and remove all historical context in their effort to demonize Palestinians as people who hate...

2010-01-18 16:33:50

Edward Sanders dies at 87; advisor to President Carter on the Middle East

2009-12-08 16:54:00

Edward Sanders, an attorney and leader in the Jewish community who served President Carter as a special advisor on Mideast policy, died Monday at his Los Angeles home. He was 87. The cause was cancer, according to his son-in-law, Stanley Witkow. Sanders...

The rise of Avigdor Lieberman

2009-02-11 00:00:00

Israel is becoming a right-wing country. That is the most significant thing you need to know about Tuesday's election returns. In a sense, this is no surprise. Israel has been moving right for years. It was not until 1977 -- almost 30 years after the...

Letters to the editor

2009-02-07 00:00:00

Put merit first Re “UCLA said yes. Now, the hard part.,” Column One, Feb. 2 As a UCLA student, I am disappointed that our school has chosen diversity over merit. Though Karina De La Cruz's experiences are not to be made light of, they do not...

Is peace out of reach?

2007-07-15 00:00:00

YASSER ARAFAT was the first to arrive. He came by presidential helicopter, his black and white kaffiyeh flapping in the cool evening breeze. Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak and President Clinton arrived the next day. And then there were three, a trio of...

Israel's peace paradox

2008-10-23 00:00:00

The lack of progress toward a peace agreement between Israel and the Palestinians is an exception to the old saying that success has many fathers but failure is an orphan. The inability to resolve a struggle dating back to 1948 has many fathers and many...

Israel's crisis of leadership

2008-12-14 00:00:00

Israel is in the throes of a grave crisis of leadership. General elections are scheduled for Feb. 10, and there is no widely respected or overwhelmingly popular leader in sight. Even with the existential threat of a nuclear Iran looming over the country,...

Vice President Hosni Mubarak, right, holds talks with Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin, second from right, in Alexandria on Aug. 18, 1981.

2012-06-19 16:16:00

1978: President Carter brought together Egypt s Anwar Sadat and Israel s Menachem Begin for successful peace talks at Camp David. Photo by Bob Daugherty, Associated Press.

2009-01-09 18:22:43

Religion: Baptist Marriage: Eleanor Rosalynn Smith Military service: He served in the Navy aboard submarines from 1946 to 1953, rising from ensign to lieutenant senior grade Party: Democrat Term: Jan. 20, 1977 - Jan.

2008-12-02 18:00:23