Yitzhak Shamir, who was Prime Minister at the time, was hugely against the introduction of what he saw as a vanity contest – he lectured Netanyahu, saying if he voted for the proposal then they would ...

Yitzhak Shamir who led the Lehi militant group, also known as the Stern gang and Menachem Begin, leader of the Irgun, another Zionist paramilitary organisation, received training and weaponry from the ...