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———. Story of My Life [in Hebrew]. Tel Aviv: Edanim, 1976
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Official Report
The Commission of Inquiry into the Events at the Refugee Camps in Beirut, 1983. Final Report
Newspapers and Periodicals
Al HaMishmar*
Bamahane
Davar*
Globes
Haaretz
Hadashot*
Ha’Ir
Hamodia
HaOlam Hazeh
Hatzofe*
The Jerusalem Post
Maariv
Koteret Rashit*
Nekuda
Yated Neeman
Yedioth Ahronoth
*Now defunct.
Archives
My research assistant, Shira Philosof, and I relied heavily on a number of archives during our work. I am grateful to their staffs for the kindness they showed us:
Menachem Begin Heritage Center Archives
Beit Ariela Library: newspapers and periodicals department
Ben-Gurion Research Institute for the Study of Israel and Zionism archive
Haaretz daily newspaper archive
Israel Broadcasting Authority archive
Israel Defense Forces and Defense Establishment Archives
Israel State Archives
Jabotinsky Institute archive
Maariv daily newspaper archive
Yitzhak Rabin Center archive
INDEX
Abbas, Mahmoud, see Abu Mazen
Abdullah, Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia, 13.1, 13.2, 13.3
Abdullah, Emir of Transjordan
Abdullah, King of Jordan, 14.1, 15.1
Abrams, Elliott, 15.1, 17.1, 18.1
Abu Agheila, 1.1, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3
Six-Day War and, 2.1, 3.1
Abu Ala (Ahmed Qureia), 10.1n, 11.1, 11.2, 12.1, 12.2, 13.1
as prime minister
Abu Jendal, 13.1, 13.2
Abu Mazen (Mahmoud Abbas), 10.1, 11.1, 12.1, 13.1, 17.1, 18.1
Arik’s meetings with, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 15.1
as prime minister, 15.1, 15.2, 15.3, 15.4, 15.5
resignation of, 15.1, 15.2
Abu Nidal group
Adam, Kuti, 2.1, 2.2
Adan, Avraham “Bren,” 2.1, 2.2, 4.1n
Yom Kippur War and, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5, 3.6, 3.7, 3.8, 3.9
Adler, Reuven, 12.1, 12.2, 13.1, 13.2, 13.3, 13.4, 14.1, 16.1
Arik’s stroke and, 18.1, 18.2
Afghanistan war
Africa, 5.1, 5.2
Afula, 2.1, 10.1, 13.1
Agranat Commission, 3.1, 4.1
Agreed Documents on Movement and Access from and to Gaza
“Agreement on the Withdrawal of Troops”
agriculture, 1.1, 1.2, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5, 5.1, 5.2, 7.1, 11.1, 12.1
Agriculture Ministry, Israeli, 5.1, 5.2, 9.1, 10.1, 17.1
Agudat Israel
air force, Egyptian, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 3.1
Akavish Road, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4
Akunis, Ofir, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3
al-Aqsa Brigades, 13.1, 13.2, 13.3, 13.4, 16.1
Albright, Madeleine, 11.1, 11.2, 12.1, 12.2
Alexandroni Brigade, 1.1, 16.1
Aley, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3
Algeria, 1.1, 6.1
Aliya Department, 7.1, 10.1
Allon, Yigal, 2.1, 2.2, 3.1, 4.1, 5.1, 9.1
Allon Plan, 2.1, 5.1, 9.1
al-Qaeda, 13.1, 15.1
Altalena (arms ship)
Altschuler, Gideon, 1.1, 3.1n, 3.2
American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), 9.1, 9.2, 15.1
Amir, Yigal, 10.1, 10.2
Amman, 8.1, 10.1, 10.2
AMX light tanks, 1.1, 1.2, 2.1
angioplasty, 18.1, 18.2, 18.3
Anglo-Egyptian agreement (1954)
Annapolis conference (Nov. 2007)
Annex Research, 14.1, 14.2, 14.3n
anti-aircraft weapons, 2.1, 2.2, 3.1, 3.2, 6.1
antitank weapons, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3
Appel, David “Dudi,” 14.1, 16.1
Aqaba, 2.1, 10.1, 15.1
Aqaba, Gulf of
Arab Democratic Party
Arab League, 2.1, 2.2, 5.1, 6.1
Arab Legion, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 2.1, 2.2
reprisal actions and, 1.1, 1.2
Six-Day War and
Arab parties, 9.1, 10.1, 16.1, 17.1, 17.2
Arabs, 4.1, 5.1, 5.2, 6.1, 6.2, 8.1, 9.1, 9.2, 10.1, 10.2, 11.1, 11.2, 12.1, 12.2, 13.1, 13.2, 14.1, 15.1, 17.1, 17.2, 17.3
Arik’s cavalier attitude toward, 1.1, 2.1, 12.1, 15.1, 17.1
Arik’s election and, 13.1, 13.2
demographic of, 1.1, 5.1, 9.1, 12.1, 15.1, 15.2, 17.1
loan guarantees and
road map and
Sadat and
settlement policy and
in War of Independence, 1.1, 1.2
see also Israeli Arabs; Palestinians
Arad, Eyal, 12.1, 13.1
Arafat, Yasser, 2.1, 2.2, 4.1, 5.1, 9.1, 10.1, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 11.4, 11.5, 12.1, 13.1, 13.2, 13.3, 14.1, 15.1, 15.2, 15.3, 17.1
assassination attempts on, 6.1, 15.1
Barak and, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3, 12.4, 12.5, 12.6
Bush’s June 24 speech and, 13.1, 13.2, 14.1
Camp David summit and, 12.1, 12.2
evacuation of, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 8.1
Lebanon War and, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4, 6.5, 6.6, 11.1
Oslo Accords and, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, 13.1, app.1
Palestinian state proclaimed by
Peres’s meeting with, 13.1, 13.2n
road map and, 14.1, 15.1, 15.2n
second intifada and, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3n, 13.1, 13.2, 13.3, 13.4, 13.5, 14.1, 15.1, 15.2
Arbel, Edna, 11.1, 16.1, 16.2
Arens, Moshe, 5.1, 6.1, 7.1, 8.1, 8.2, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 10.1n, 11.1
Desert Storm and, 9.1, 9.2
Armistice Agreement (1949), 2.1, 2.2n, 2.3
armored personnel carriers (APCs), 6.1, 13.1, 14.1, 16.1
Yom Kippur War and, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5, 3.6, 3.7, 3.8, 3.9, 3.10
Artillery Road, 3.1, 3.2
Ashkelon, 1.1n, 2.1, 5.1, 10.1n, 10.2, 16.1, 17.1
Assad, Hafez, 5.1, 5.2, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 9.1, 11.1, 11.2
Barak and, 12.1, 12.2
Clinton’s meeting with, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3
death of
assassinations, targeted, 10.1, 13.1, 13.2, 14.1, 15.1, 15.2, 15.3, 15.4, 16.1, 16.2
Aswan High Dam
Awali River, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3
Ayalon, Ami
Ayalon, Danny, 13.1n, 13.2n, 13.3
Azoun
Ba’abda, 5.1, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3
Baker, James, 8.1, 9.1n, 9.2, 11.1
Balkan conflict
Barak, Aharon, 4.1, 10.1n, 16.1
Barak, Ehud, 2.1, 4.1, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3, 13.1, 14.1, 14.2
Arik’s relationship with, 12.1, 12.2
elections and, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3, 12.4n, 12.5
peace efforts of, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3, 12.4, 12.5, 12.6, 14.1, 15.1
second intifada and, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3, 12.4, 13.1, 13.2, 13.3
Barak, Nava
Barakeh, Mohammed
Bar-Lev, Haim, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5n, 4.1n, 8.1, 8.2, nts.1n
Yom Kippur War and, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5, 3.6, 4.1
Bar-Lev Line, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 3.1, 3.2
Bassi, Yonatan
Battle for Peace, The (Weizman), 5.1n
B
aum, Shlomo
BAWAG (Bank für Arbeit und Wirtschaft), 14.1, 16.1
Beaufort, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3
Bedouin, 1.1, 1.2, 2.1
expulsion of, 1.1, 2.1
Beersheba, 1.1, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 3.1, 3.2, 9.1, 13.1, 16.1n, 17.1
hospital in, 18.1, 18.2
Begin, Benny, 6.1, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4n, 9.1
Begin, Menachem, 1.1, 4.1, 5.1, 7.1, 10.1, 15.1, 16.1, 17.1
Arik denied defense ministry by, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3
Arik’s relationship with, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3
death of, 7.1, 8.1, 10.1
as defense minister, 5.1, 5.2
depression of, 6.1, 7.1, 8.1
election of 1977 and, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 5.1
Herut Party and, 1.1, 2.1, 2.2n, 4.1n
Kahan Commission and, 6.1, 7.1
Lebanon War and, 5.1, 5.2, 7.1, 8.1
peace efforts and, 5.1, 5.2, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 9.1, 10.1, 12.1, 12.2, 13.1
as prime minister, 4.1, 7.1, 8.1, 8.2, 9.1, 9.2, 10.1n, 12.1
seclusion of, 7.1, 7.2, 8.1, 9.1
settlement policy and, 5.1, 5.2, 6.1, 8.1, 9.1, 17.1, 17.2
U.S.-Israel Memorandum of Agreement and, 5.1, 5.2
War of Attrition and, 2.1, 2.2
Yom Kippur War and, 4.1, 6.1
Beilin, Yossi, 8.1, 8.2, 9.1, 9.2
“Geneva Accord” and, 15.1, 15.2
Oslo Accords and, 10.1n, 10.2
Beirut, 5.1, 5.2, 6.1, 10.1, 13.1
airport of, 6.1, 6.2
Arab summit in
bombing of, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3
evacuation of, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4, 6.5
Lebanon War and, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4, 6.5, 6.6, 6.7, 7.1n, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 11.1
refugee camps around, 5.1, 6.1, 6.2
suburbs of, 5.1, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4, 6.5
see also Kahan Commission
Beirut, East, 6.1, 6.2
Beirut, West, 5.1, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3
IDF in, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4, 7.1n
Beirut-Damascus highway, 5.1, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3n, 6.4
Ben-Ami, Shlomo, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3
Camp David summit and, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3
second intifada and, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3, 12.4
Ben-Ari, Uri
Ben-Eliezer, Binyamin “Fuad,” 13.1, 13.2, 13.3, 13.4, 13.5, 14.1, 14.2, 14.3
Ben-Gal, Avigdor “Yanosh,” 5.1, 6.1, 11.1
Ben-Gurion, David “the Old Man,” 1.1, 1.2, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3n, 5.1, 5.2, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 10.1, 10.2, 15.1n
