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| | Menachem Begin - The Sixth Prime Minister |
 | | He soon reached important administrative and leadership positions in the Betar movement, and in 1932 became a member of the national administration of Betar in Poland and Head of its Organizational Department. |
 | | In 1937 he was appointed the Betar representative in Czechoslovakia, and in 1939 he was elected by Jabotinsky as Head of Betar Poland, an organization which trained approximately 70,000 youths for missions of defense and "illegal" immigration to the land of Israel. |
 | | In the autumn of 1945, "The Hebrew Resistance Movement", which united the "Hagana", "Etzel" and "Lehi" in a common struggle against the British, was established, with Begin serving as the Etzel's representative in the movement's headquarters until it disbanded in 1946. |
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