PRIME MINISTER MENACHEM BEGIN (ISRAEL) - FIRST DAY COVER SIGNED - HFSID 15670
Price: $240.00
MENACHEM BEGIN
Menachem Begin signs a philatelic envelope honoring International
Court of Justice.
Philatelic Envelope signed: "M. Begin" in English, 6½x3½.
United Nations First Day Cover honoring International Court of Justice, 13-cent
U.N. stamp affixed, postmarked United Nations, New York, April 21,1969,
FIRST DAY OF ISSUE. In 1973, the Likud Party was formed and Menachem Begin
(1913-1992) became its leader. When Likud won the elections in 1977, he became
Prime Minister. It was during this tenure in 1978, that 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 airspace and destroyed the facility, which Israel later
claimed had been primed for a start up. In 1982, he authorized the Israeli
invasion of Lebanon. In failing health and following the death of his wife,
Aliza, Begin stepped down in September 1983. Slightly creased. Fine
condition.
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