The Prime Ministers: An Intimate Narrative of Israeli Leadership
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Knesset Cabinet Room, 156–157
Knesset Foreign Affairs and Security Committee, 313
Knesset, 138–139, 154, 156–158, 181, 200 (photo), 226–227, 230, 248, 255, 285, 287, 295, 300, 301, 302, 319, 321, 322, 335, 349, 352, 354, 355, 356, 364, 372, 377, 385, 386, 386 (photo), 401, 450 (photo), 457, 458, 464–465, 468, 470, 478, 531, 532, 535, 562, 565, 574, 579, 580–582, 582 (photo), 585–587, 604, 609, 668 (photo), 671; debate between Begin and Peres, 451–455; debate on El Al working on Shabbat, 595–600; debate on Yom Kippur War, 250–254; on Palestinians voting for, 478, 479; special session after Entebbe rescue, 314
Kolowitz, Yossel, on Aegean Star, 33, 35, 38; see also Cole, Jay
Koppel, Ted, 278
Kotel, 159, 352; see also Western Wall
Kreisky, Bruno, 199, 220; meeting with Golda Meir, 222–224
Kuneitra Valley, 235
L
La Grand Scene (restaurant), 433
Labor Party, 103, 109, 131, 199, 255, 261, 332, 453, 455; Central Committee, 262
Labor Zionism, 107
Lady Bird Johnson, 171
Laird, Melvin, 193, 194
Lapidot, Yehuda, 94
Law of the Golan Heights, 579–588
Lawrence of Arabia, 202
Lawson, Nigel, 513
League of Nations Supreme Council, 351
League of Nations, 5
Lechi (Israel Freedom Fighters), 17, 89, 94
Leibowitz, Nehama, 397, 398
Les Miserables, 687
Lest We Forget, 560
“Let My People Go” campaign, 220, 514
Levine, Reb Aryeh, 236
Levine, Reb Raphael, 365–366, 368–369
Levy, Gershon, 87–93
Lewis, Sallie, 584
Lewis, Samuel, 387, 404, 410, 431, 494–495, 650 (photo), 651, 652, 654, 669; conveying Reagan Peace Plan, 629–635; delivering message from Reagan to Begin, 605, 627–629; extending Reagan invitation to Begin, 651–652, 654, 669, 671–672, 673–674; involvement with Sadat’s visit to Jerusalem, 457–458; meeting with Begin, 583–588; on hearing of Israel’s attack on Iraq’s nuclear reactor, 554–556, 567
Liberty Bell Park, 137
Lincoln, Abraham, 274, 347, 432, 617
Linder, Elisha, 61, 63, 64
Lion Gate, 159
Lior, Colonel Yisrael, 141, 142, 154
Lippu, Misha, 391–392
Lishkat Hakesher, 94
Little House on the Prairie, 560
Lord Annan, 685, 687–688
Lord Mountbatten of Burma, 685
Lord Rothschild, 684
Los Angeles Century Plaza Hotel, 654
Lubavitcher Rebbe, 318, meeting with Prime Minister Begin, 406–407, 407 (photo); meeting with Yehuda Avner, 443–446
Lysol, 523
M
Machaneh Yehuda, 12, 46
Machon, 28, 30 (photo), 40–41, 45, 46, 69–70, 84, 88
Mahler, Gustav, 52
Mahler, Leopold, 52, 53–57, 62–65, 68,
69
Maki (political party), 84
Malechek, Dale, 157
Mamilla Road, 136
Manifesto of Revolt, Begin’s, 8–9
Mapai – Workers’ Party of Eretz Yisrael, 103–104, 349
Margolit, Dan, 331
Marine Band, 274
Marine Chamber Orchestra, 274
Marines Corp, 274
Maronite Christian community
(Lebanon), 561, 635
Martin, Cliff, 21, 25
Marx Brothers, 177
Mary Lou (White House Housekeeper), 430
Mau Mau, 503
Mayfair Hotel, 127
McAdam, Jock, 52, 53–57, 62–65, 68, 69; fight in Café Atara, 56–57
McFarlan, Bud, 561, 672, 677, 678
McNamara, Robert, 177
Meah Shearim, 34, 65
Meet the Press, 446
Mein Kampf, 343
Meir, Golda, 44, 97, 101, 104, 142, 155, 181, 187, 193, 199, 200 (photo), 201–203, 226–227, 230–231, 234, 237 (photo), 238 (photo), 248–249, 255–256, 321, 364, 369, 370, 381, 396, 401, 461, 464, 676; African policy of, 104–107, 235–236, 306, 676; Knesset debate on Yom Kippur War, 250–264; meeting with Bruno Kriesky, 222–224; opposition to Moshe Dayan in national unity government, 151; opposition to William Rodgers, 190; and the Socialist International, 202, 254–255; resignation as prime minister, 256, 261; visit to troops on the Golan Heights, 235–241; visit to Great Synagogue (Moscow), 240
Menachem Begin Heritage Center, Jerusalem, 674
Mengele, Dr., 315
Mengistu Hailé Mariam, 413–414
“Merry Wives of Windsor,” 151
Metropolitan Police (London), 126
Metternich, Prince Klemens von, 263, 300
Mexican war, 617
Meyerson, Menachem, 211
Meyerson, Morris, 107, 211–213
Meyerson, Sara, 211
MI6, 516–518
Missouri Waltz, The 118
Mitla and Gidi Passes, 243, 279, 290, 297, 321, 481
Mohammedanism, 517
Monnet, Jean, 220
Montgomery, General, 550
Mossad, 414, 516, 518, 551, 552
Mount Herzl, 60
Mount of Olives, 45, 659, 693, 694, 695 (photo)
Mount Scopus, 153
Mount Sinai, 538, 663
Moynihan, Daniel Patrick, 586
Mubarak, Hosni, 576, 589, 590, 591, 662
Mubarak, Suzanne, 662
Mugrahbi, 160, 162
Munich Olympics, 219, 221
N
Nakar, Meir, 21, 23, 24
Nakdimon, Shlomo, 558
Napoleon, 50, 534
Napoleonic Wars, 263
Nasser, Gamal Abdul, 97, 101, 135, 138, 142, 227, 233
National Charter of the PLO, 417
National Geographic Society, 572
National Guard (Iraq), 702
National Religious Party, 603
National Unity Government, 84, 101, 146, 150, 151, 158, 181, 187, 199, 226, 230, 286, 336, 341, 370
National Water Carrier, 101, 116, 132, 168
NATO, 288, 549
Nazi People’s Court of Berlin, 545
Nazism, 567
Nehamale (tea lady), 370
Nelson, Viscount Horatio, 505
Netanya, 25, 421
Netanyahu, Binyamin, 314
Netanyahu, Yonatan, 314
Neturei Karta (Guardians of the City), 497
New York Consulate, 182
New York Plaza Hotel, 166
New York Times, 188, 191, 353, 556
Newsweek, 195
Nixon, Richard, 166, 182, 187–189, 190, 192, 193–194, 226, 227–230, 249, 254, 262–264, 265, 266, 267, 270, 271, 272, 278, 320–321, 568; accusations of being anti-Semitic, 189, 269; telephone conversation with Henry Kissinger, 243–247
Nobel Prize for Peace (1978), 484, 694, 700
Norma (Secretary to Yehuda Avner), 373, 488, 655
Northern Ireland, 518
Nothing, and So Be It, 207, 215
Number 10 Downing Street, 129, 130, 503, 513, 518, 701
Nussen der chazzan, 65
NYPD (New York Police Department), 497
O
Observer, 233
Ohana, Rabbi Nissim, 24
Oil embargo, 282
Old City (Jerusalem), 45, 51, 57, 58, 59, 137, 268, 308, 364, 515; liberation of, 154–159
Olive Room (King David Hotel), 468
O’Neill, Thomas, 324, 327
“Open Season,” 79
“Operation Agatha,” 17–18
Operation Opera (destruction of Iraqi nuclear reactor), 551–563, 702–703
Operation Peace for Galilee, 342, 605–606, 608, 623, 670
Operation Thunderbolt, 313–314
Operation Yonatan, 314
Ophira, 590
Oradea, Father, 391–392
Oratova (Ukrainian Chasidic
shtetl), 101, 113
Order of Merit, 91
Osirak, 551, 552, 554, 555, 559, 583
Oslo Accords (1993), 193, 707
Ovad (member of Prime Minister Begin’s security detail), 489
Oval Office (White House), 119–120, 128, 433, 447, 554, 564 (photo), 565, 566, 567, 613
Oxford Union, 87–96
P
Packwood, Robert, 586
Pacta sunt servanda, 589–592
Paice, Mervyn, 21, 25
Palace Green, 562
Palace Theater, 687
Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), 210, 287, 324, 327, 328, 353, 365, 366, 368, 387, 388, 403, 405, 412, 415, 417, 419, 426, 431, 458, 477, 480, 524, 568, 578, 579, 581, 585, 599, 603, 604, 605, 607, 608, 614, 615, 617, 619, 620, 623, 628, 629, 641, 647, 651, 672
Palestine Post, 18, 51
Palestine Symphony Orchestra, 53
Palestinian autonomy, 301, 474, 477, 479, 481, 484, 496, 568, 569, 585, 637
Palestinian Charter, 353, 417, 426
Palestinian self-government, suggested transitional five-year period of, 630, 637
Pall Mall and Waterloo Place, 513
Palmach, 82, 184, 259
Paris Opera Orchestra, 53
Park Avenue, 497
Pasha’s Room, 202, 203
Patir, Dan, 311, 331, 332, 357, 402, 434, 447
Patriarchs, graves of, 161
Patton M-60 tanks, 524
Pearlman, Yitzhak, 494
Pedernales River, 167
People That Dwells Alone, A, 399
Peres, Shimon, 97, 109, 280, 318, 332, 337, 334, 336, 386, 487, 553, 566, 643, 653, 685–688; appointment with Yehuda Avner, 337; election loss to Begin, 345, 348; Knesset debate with Menachem Begin, 451–455, involvement with Entebbe mission, 304, 306–310, 312; opposed to Yitzhak Rabin, 261–262, 335
Pérez de Cuéllar, Javier, 610
Pershing, Gen. John J., 617
Pershing ground-to-ground missiles, 299
Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, 547, 549
Pink Sheets, 190–191, 194
Pinter, Harold, 685
PLO, see Palestinian Liberation Organization
Polish Government-in-Exile, 392
Political Information Department, Ministry of ForeignAffairs, 104
Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, 305
Poran, Gen. Ephraim, see Freuka
Porgy and Bess, 433
Potato Eaters, The (Van Gogh), 77
Preemptive strikes, 150, 151, 251
“President’s Own, The,” 274
Price, Leontyne, 494
Prince Albert, 588
Princess Diana, see Diana, Princess
Project Renewal, 390
Psalm 126, 488
Psalm of David, 491
Q
Queen Elizabeth II, 509, 546–550, 684, 701; and accepting credentials of Yehuda Avner, 679–681
Queen Mother of the Egyptian royal house, 17
Queen Victoria, 547, 688
R
Rabbinical Council of America, 429–430
Rabin, Leah, 184, 276, 326 (photo); at the White House State Dinner, 274; withdrawing money from the National Bank, 331–332
Rabin, Rachel, 333
Rabin, Rosa, 333
Rabin, Yitzhak, 82, 97, 142, 144 (photo), 256, 345, 347, 349, 356, 357, 358, 359, Anwar Sadat as recalled in memoirs, 302; as ambassador to the United States, 179–196, 227–228, 229, 230, 231, 259; as prime minister, 260 (photo), 261–337; bank scandal, 331–332; conversation with Kissinger, 193–194, 195; dispute with Carter, 324–331; Entebbe rescue mission, 303–318; meeting with Begin in Washington, D.C., 187–193; meeting with Gordie Zacks, 469; message from Ford, 280–281; opposed to Shimon Peres, 261–262, 335; reason for shaking Yasser Arafat’s hand, 707n54; resignation as prime minister, 332; role in the Altalena, 82; talks with Ford, 272
Radio Cairo, 460
Radio Monte Carlo, 573
Rafi – the Israel Workers’ List, 109, 151
Rahamim, 391
Reagan, Ronald, 342, 560, 563, 564 (photo), 584, 588, 589, 608, 618 (photo), 651, 652, 671, 673, 674, 675, 677; dispatch of Philip Habib to region, 606; meetings with Begin, 565–565, 569–571, 613–617; 619–624; message to Begin, 606–607; on reaction to Israeli bombing of Iraqi nuclear reactor, 355–356, 358; on situation in Lebanon, 561, 579; reaction to the Golan Law, 581; receiving Begin at the White House, 566–568
Reagan Plan, 627–639, 641
Reagan, Michael, 560
Reagan, Ron, 560
Rehavia, 145, 389
Revisionist Zionism, 8, 347, 376
Revolt against British occupation, 7, 16, 20, 66, 78, 79, 81, 83, 435
Revolt, Begin’s Manifesto of, 8–9
Revolutionary Cells, 305
Rifkind, Malcolm, 512, 513
River Jordan, Syrian strategy to divert the headwaters of the, 101, 111, 125, 131–132
Rockefeller, Nelson, 166
Rogers initiative, 226, 227, 229, 230
Rogers Plan of 1969, 190, 193, 194, 236, 227, 263, 328
Rogers, William, 187, 188, 189–194, 226, 228, 230; talk with Kissinger, 192
Rommel’s Afrika Corps, 549
Roosevelt, Theodore, 371, 372
Rosenbaum Street (Number one), 389
Ross, Charlie, 122
Rothberg, Sam, 533–534, 652, 653, 654, 655, 658
Rothschild, Philippe de, 93
Rubin, Reuven, 156–157
Ruby, 116–117
Rusk, Dean, 168, 174, 175 (photo of letter)
S
Sabra and Shatila, 342, 641–648, 651, 652, 653, 673; see also Kahan Commission
Sadat, Anwar, 223, 249, 277, 279–280, 288, 291, 296–297, 321, 335, 341, 342, 402, 411, 425, 438, 612, 662, 623, 662, 664, 700; deadlock in negotiations with Israel, 473–484; death of, 573, 576, 575 (photo), 589, 590, 592; issue of Jerusalem, 532, 535–538; letter from Nixon, 271; Peace Treaty signing at White House, 490–496, 492 (photo); as recalled in Rabin’s memoirs, 302; Sinai interim agreement (1975), 183, 259, 283, 286, 289, 290, 295, 299, 302, 321, 323, 493; talk with Ford and Kissinger, 289–290, 291–293; visit to Jerusalem, 455, 456 (photo), 457–473, 462 (photos), 463 (photos), 472 (photo)
Sadat, Jehan, 576, 662-664; condolence letter to Menachem Begin on Aliza’s death, 664, 666 (photo of condolence letter); message from Menachem Begin on Sinai withdrawal, 591–592, 593 (photo of letter); reply to condolence letter from Menachem Begin, 665, 667 (photo of letter).
Saddam Hussein, 552, 702
Safed, 76
Safire, William, 188
Sagui, General, 620
Saladin, 76, 532
Salonika, 596
Sam-6 missiles, 616, 636
SAM-8 missiles, 636
SAM-9 missiles, 636
San Remo Conference in 1920, 418
Sandhurst, 506
Sapir, Pinchas, 251
Sarid, Yossi, 596
Sarkis, Elias, 416, 620