1. In 1981, Prime Minister Menachem Begin sent fighter jets to knock out Iraq's "Osirak" nuclear reactor.

2. The same happened in Israel, and Menachem Begin connected with them.

3. In 1978, with the help of Menachem Begin, Israel's Prime Minister, he and his family were finally allowed to go to Israel.

4. In its place came the Likud, a conservative bloc of parties headed by the nationalist firebrand Menachem Begin.

5. Egypt has had full diplomatic relations with Israel since the 1979 Camp David peace accords were signed by former Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin.

6. Reading Bush's book, seeing him in his various TV appearances, I keep thinking of Menachem Begin, the late Israeli prime minister.

7. The New York Times columnist celebrates Malcolm X, Andrei Sakharov and Menachem Begin as dissenters of Joban stature.

8. Shimon Peres, taking the first turn, adopted a clearly warmer tone than former Prime Minister Menachem Begin had toward the U.S.