Before Israel's independence in 1948, Menachem Begin used to describe his comrades in the Irgun underground who were warring against the British as the "fighting family." Last week Begin's Herut Party, which the former Prime Minister dominated for almost four decades, demonstrated that it was still ready for a fight. This time, however, the family members spent most of their time battling one another. The result: a schism within Herut, the backbone of the right-wing Likud bloc, between the followers of Party Leader Yitzhak Shamir, who is also Foreign Minister, and the combined forces of Deputy Prime Minister David Levy and...
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