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Like her grandfather, former Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin, 17- year-old Ayelet Milo is a determined vote getter. At the Miss Israel pageant in Tel Aviv last week, she got enough of the judges' votes to make her runner- up. The child of Begin's daughter Hassia, Ayelet hesitated to enter the competition until she got encouragement from her grandfather. During the grind of dieting and exercise before the contest, her spirits were kept high by daily telephone pep talks from the reclusive Begin, who did not, however, attend the event. As runner-up, Ayelet...
...suit, Menachem Begin, 71, left Shaare Zedek Hospital in Jerusalem after a successful prostate operation. It was the former Prime Minister's first public appearance since he resigned 13 months ago. When he emerged into the hospital's parking lot, leaning on the arm of his daughter Hassia, Begin softly praised his doctors and nurses and said in Hebrew, "Happy New Year to the people of Israel." He then was driven off to his 3½-room apartment and the renewed sanctuary of silence...
...last photographed on Dec. 10, 1983, when he moved out of the Prime Minister's official residence on Jerusalem's Balfour Street. Even then, he did not emerge in full view: slightly stooped and showing his age, Menachem Begin, 70, was partly shielded by his daughter Hassia. The curiosity was understandable. Begin had been in seclusion since the previous September, after he abruptly announced he was quitting the job he had held since 1977. "I cannot carry on," he said simply. Aides and friends alike described him as darkly depressed by the 1982 death of his wife Aliza...
...wealth of factual information gives the book the air more of crackling investigative journalism than of fast-moving fiction. Virtually all the international figures in The Fifth Horseman-the important exception being the U.S. President-are identified and living people. Israeli Premier Menachem Begin's daughter Hassia plays the piano in the family's Jerusalem apartment; France's President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing has a secret meeting with his top aides to discuss energy matters...
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