PRIME MINISTER MENACHEM BEGIN (ISRAEL) - COMMEMORATIVE ENVELOPE SIGNED - HFSID 16649
Price: $240.00
MENACHEM BEGIN
Menachem Begin signs a philatelic envelope commemorating the
postponement of his meeting with President Carter on March 14.
Philatelic Envelope signed: "M. Begin" in English, 6½x3½.
Commemorative Cover postmarked Washington, DC, Smithsonian Station, March 14,
1978 saluting Begin and Carter's postponed meeting on March 14. Born in
Poland, Menachem Begin (1913-1992) reached British Palestine in 1943 to
participate in the struggle for an independent state of Israel. He served in the
Knesset from its first session. In 1973, the Likud Party was formed and
Begin became its leader. When Likud won the elections in 1977, he became
Prime Minister. The following year, Begin and Egyptian President Anwar
el-Sadat received the Nobel Peace Prize for the peace treaty they would
sign the following year, after much of the Sinai was returned to Egypt. In June
1981, Begin asked the Cabinet to approve the bombing of the Iraqi nuclear
reactor at Osirak. On Shavuot, Israeli planes flew below radar detection through
Arab air space and destroyed the facility, which Israel later claimed had been
primed for a start up. In 1982, Begin authorized the Israeli invasion of
Lebanon. In failing health and following the death of his wife, Aliza, Begin
stepped down in September 1983. Fine condition.
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