Historical Dictionary of Israel

PRINCES OF THE PARTY

The term applied to generally well-educated, politically sophisticated, and financially secureLikudactivists whose fathers (or mothers) had been prominent in theRevisionists,Herut, orIrgun. Among those fitting this description wereZe'ev Binyamin Begin,Tzachi Hanegbi,Uzi Landau,Limor Liv-nat,Dan Meridor,Sallai Meridor,Ronnie Milo,Benjamin Netanyahu, andEhud Olmert.