Possible Clues:

• Is Priest chasing Sun God in the National?
• Jewish character recalled in I Kings 1
• Levantine would support daughter as novelist
• Begin perhaps denying lead to British PM twice
• Like the Merkava battle tank
• Person from Tel Aviv eg
• Eban or Dyan
• As national of modern republic, is one welcoming king's reverse?
• Begin, say
• One's king returning before one's countryman