The PMs who shaped Israel

Menachem Begin, a former underground fighter, arch Zionist and ardent advocate of settlement expansion, was PM between 1977 and 1983. His invitation to Egypt's President Anwar Sadat to visit Israel in November 1977 led to a ground-breaking peace deal that secured the pair a shared Nobel Peace prize. Begin subsequently presided over the disastrous Israeli invasion of Lebanon in 1982 that culminated in the massacre of hundreds of defenceless Palestinians in Beirut refugee camps by Israeli's ruthless Christian Lebanese allies, subject of the current Oscar contender, 'Waltz with Bashir'.