March 9, 1992
Menachem Begin Dies
Historical context
On this day, March 9, 1992, former Israeli prime minister Menachem Begin died at Ichilov Hospital in Tel Aviv. He was buried the same day on the Mount of Olives beside his wife, Aliza.
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- March 9, 1992
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On this day, Menachem Begin died at Ichilov Hospital in Tel Aviv, of a heart ailment. He was born in Brest-Litovsk in 1913, reached Mandatory Palestine in 1942, and later commanded the Irgun. He became prime minister in 1977. In 1978 he and Anwar Sadat signed the Camp David Accords; the Egypt–Israel peace treaty followed on 26 March 1979.
He resigned in 1983, after the Lebanon war. He asked for a simple Jewish funeral and was buried the same day on the Mount of Olives beside Aliza Begin, not on Mount Herzl. The 1979 peace-treaty signing is a separate story.
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- Menachem Begin is Laid to Rest in Simple Mount of Olives Ceremony · Jewish Telegraphic Agency · JTA (1992-03-10) View source
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