Meet "Menachem Begin" the Jewish Terrorist Leader of IRJUN who would become the 6th Prime Minister of Israel.

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Israeli Prime Minister from June 21st 1977 - October 10th 1983.
Menakhem Volfovich later changed his name to Menachem Begin (They do that a lot just like the current Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu was originally Benjamin Mileikowsky from Poland).
The leader of the Zionist militant group Irgun, the Revisionist breakaway from the larger Jewish paramilitary organization Haganah.
His father, a timber merchant, was a community leader, a passionate Zionist, and an admirer of Theodor Herzl. The midwife who attended his birth was the grandmother of Ariel Sharon.
In his childhood, Begin, like most Jewish children in his town, was a member of the Zionist scouts movement Hashomer Hatzair.

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