ABSTRACT
Benny Begin and his companions were defeated time after time by a towering left-wing coalition of workers’ parties, along with the Histadrut under its control. They became accustomed to the political wilderness and the opposition benches. Like Ze'ev Jabotinsky in the 1920s and ’30s, Begin remained loyal to his ideological path despite the heavy price that this entailed – consignment to the slandered, penniless, lonely opposition. Both Jabotinsky and Begin believed in their path and scorned compromise. The series of internal rebellions and resignations from the movement or from political life can be attributed to various factors. They are: the frustrating isolation in the opposition, the Labor's closure of opportunities in the job market and the military, and later on the internal struggles and attempts to oust the leader who would seemingly never win an election.
