Famous People with Name Menachem

Menachem Begin            Origin/Culture/Country: Jewish

Menachem Begin: Israeli politician, Nobel Peace Prize laureate and the first Likud Prime Minister of Israel. Prior to the organization's dissolution at the founding of the State of Israel, he was also head of the Zionist underground group Irgun.

Menachem Wolfovich Begin            Origin/Culture/Country: Jewish

Menachem Wolfovich BeginÂ: was the sixth prime minister of the State of Israel. Before the establishment of the state, he was the leader of the Irgun, playing a central role in Jewish resistance to the British Mandate of Palestine.Begin’s most significant achievement as prime minister was signing a peace treaty with Egypt in 1979, for which he won the Nobel Prize for Peace together with Anwar Sadat. In the wake of the Camp David Accords, the Israel Defense Forces withdrew from the Sinai Peninsula and returned the Egyptian territories captured in the Six-Day War

Menachem Ben-Sasson            Origin/Culture/Country: Jewish

Menachem Ben-Sasson: is an Israeli politician and a former member of the Knesset for Kadima. He is set to become the next president of Hebrew University of Jerusalem, succeeding Menachem Megidor.