| ID | 154057 |
| Title Proper | Menachem Begin and Gahal in the run-up to the June 1967 war |
| Language | ENG |
| Author | Goldstein, Amir |
| Summary / Abstract (Note) | This article discusses the causes and processes that drove Menachem Begin and his Gahal party into the Israeli cabinet during the three-week waiting period preceding the June 1967 war (or Six Day War as it is commonly known). A close examination of Begin’s behaviour reveals a calculated political move aimed at exploiting deep processes within the Israeli political establishment in general, and its right-wing factions in particular. This sheds fresh light on a number of key events preceding the war, notably Prime Minister Levi Eshkol’s surrender of the defence portfolio to Moshe Dayan, as well as on the deeper processes that led within a decade to the Likud’s (Gahal’s successor) rise to power, for the first time in Israel’s history. |
| `In' analytical Note | Israel Affairs Vol. 23, No.4; Aug 2017: p.669-689 |
| Journal Source | Israel Affairs Vol: 23 No 4 |
| Key Words | Six Day War ; David Ben-Gurion ; Shimon Peres ; Levi Eshkol ; Menachem Begin ; Herut Movement ; Gahal Party ; June 1967 War ; Rafi |