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6th Prime Minister of Israel
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On September 17, 1978, beneath the chandeliers of the White House, a handwritten Hebrew phrase, 'Shalom, shalom, ve’eyn ketz la’shalom', was inscribed in Begin’s own hand beside his signature on the Camp David Accords. That phrase, meaning 'Peace, peace, and no end to peace,' captured his lifelong tension between unwavering ideological conviction and pragmatic reconciliation. Unlike predecessors who saw diplomacy as concession, Begin treated it as sacred covenant-making: he insisted on returning every inch of Sinai to Egypt not as retreat, but as fulfillment of a moral promise rooted in Jewish tradition and Zionist realism. His 1977 electoral victory shattered decades of Labor dominance, not with populism alone, but by weaving Revisionist ideology, Holocaust memory, and grassroots Mizrahi empowerment into a new national narrative. He governed from the Western Wall plaza and the Knesset chamber with equal intensity, carrying Jabotinsky’s pen and Herzl’s vision, but always, unmistakably, his own voice.
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