1913. Born by Menachem Begin

100 years ago, on August 16, 1913, was born Menacham Begin, Prime Minister of Israel in 1977-1983. In 1978, together with Egyptian President Anvar Sadat, he was awarded the Nobel Prize of the World for the signing of the Camp-David agreements in September 1978, which laid an end to the state of the war between Egypt and Israel.

In his youth, Begin was an activist of the Zionist movement in Poland. In 1940, he was arrested by the Soviet authorities in Vilnius and sentenced to 8 years in camps as an agent of British imperialism and a socially hazardous element. In 1941, he was released from the camp on Pechora as a Polish subject and entered the Polish army of Anders, which soon ended up in Palestine. Begin described his stay in the Gulag in the book “On White Nights”.