Editing Menachem Begin (section)

==Retirement and seclusion==

Begin subsequently retired to an apartment overlooking the [[Jerusalem Forest]] and spent the rest of his life in seclusion. According to Israeli psychologist [[Ofer Grosbard]], he suffered from clinical depression.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.haaretz.co.il/misc/1.1104756|title=עקב מחלתו של ראש הממשלה|first=דליה|last=קרפל|newspaper=הארץ |date=10 May 2006|via=Haaretz}}</ref> He would rarely leave his apartment, and then usually to visit his wife's grave-site to say the traditional [[Kaddish]] [[Jewish prayer|prayer]] for the departed. His seclusion was watched over by his children and his lifetime personal secretary Yechiel Kadishai, who monitored all official requests for meetings. Begin would meet almost no one other than close friends or family. After a year, he changed his telephone number due to journalists constantly calling him. He was cared for by his daughter Leah and a housekeeper. According to Kadishai, Begin spent most of his days reading and watching movies, and would start and finish a book almost every day. He also kept up with world events by continuing his lifelong habit of listening to the [[BBC]] every morning, which had begun during his underground days, and maintaining a subscription to several newspapers. Begin retained some political influence in the Likud party, which he used to influence it behind the scenes.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1298&dat=19860726&id=4_hNAAAAIBAJ&pg=6855,4381001|title=The Free Lance-Star - Google News Archive Search|website=news.google.com}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2209&dat=19870402&id=tZBKAAAAIBAJ&pg=5747,372516|title=The Telegraph - Google News Archive Search|website=news.google.com}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2194&dat=19851030&id=C18zAAAAIBAJ&pg=1409,5058182|title=Ottawa Citizen - Google News Archive Search|website=news.google.com}}</ref>

In 1990, Begin broke his hip in a fall and underwent surgery at [[Shaare Zedek Medical Center]]. Afterwards, doctors recommended moving him to Ichilov Hospital at the [[Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center]] for rehabilitation. He was released from hospital in March 1991 and subsequently moved to an apartment in the [[Afeka]] neighborhood in Tel Aviv. The hospital stay and permanent move to Tel Aviv greatly improved his health and mood and his seclusion somewhat loosened. On [[Passover]] eve in 1991, he gave a telephone interview as part of a television broadcast marking fifty years since the death of Ze'ev Jabotinsky. He gave another telephone interview, which would be the last interview of his life, in July 1991.<ref>Shilon, pp. 376-379</ref>