Golda Meir She believed the government needed to form a coalition. She said, "Five years are sufficient ... It is beyond my strength to continue carrying this burden." Yitzhak Rabin succeeded her on June 3, 1974. In 1975 Meir published her autobiography, "My Life". On 19 November 1977, President of Egypt Anwar Sadat became the first Arab leader to visit Israel in an official capacity when he met Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin, and spoke before the Knesset in Jerusalem about his views on how to achieve a comprehensive peace in the Arab–Israeli conflict. He recommended the full implementation of UN Resolutions
Kiryat Menachem Begin in an area that separated western and eastern Jerusalem. The first building was the National Headquarters of the Israel Police that was inaugurated in 1973, planned by architect Dan Eytan. In the early 1980s, Prime Minister Menachem Begin decided to set up government offices close to the police headquarters. After his death the area was named after him. Kiryat Menachem Begin Kiryat Menachem Begin, named after former Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin and also known as Kiryat HaMemshala, is a complex of government buildings in East Jerusalem located between Sheikh Jarrah in the north, adjacent to Mount Scopus in the