Israel during the Falklands War was led by the man who blew up the King David Hotel on July 22, 1946, killing 91 people, 28 of them British

 

Begin's Irgun and other Jewish terrorists killed about 750 British soldiers and police in Palestine. 

In 1947 he disbanded the Irgun and founded a party. It merged with other fringe parties and became in 1971 the Likud, which he led. Albert Einstein, who turned down the chance to be the first President of Israel, described him as a fascist. Netanyahu was a key figure in Begin's government.