October 7, 1981
A close friend of Menachem Begin, Landau is born in Poland in 1916, immigrating to Palestine in 1935. A devotee of the Betar Zionist movement, member of the Irgun defense organization and Engineer, Landau serves as a Herut Knesset member (1948-1977) and as Transport Minister (1979-1981) for the Likud party.