No Mission Is Impossible (39 page)

  
Six Day War and, 78, 97

  
War of Independence and, 30, 33, 34

United Nations Human Rights Council, 292, 299

United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), 290, 301

United Nations Truce Supervision Organization, 89

United States

  
Arafat and, 274, 275, 276

  
Defensive Shield Operation and, 275, 279

  
Iran's relations with, 226

  
and Iraq's Osirak nuclear reactor, 231

  
and Iron Dome project, 305

  
and Israeli-Lebanon war, 252

  
Israeli relations with, 112, 133, 134, 226, 231, 305

  
and
Karine A
attack, 274, 275

  
mediation between Syria and Israel by, 252

  
Pillar of Defense Operation and, 297

  
Project Arrow and, 303

  
and rescue of Jews from Ethiopia, 313-14

  
Six Day War and, 78

  
and Soviet pilots with Egyptian Air Force, 133, 134

  
Soviet relations with, 131

  
Sudan aid from, 313

  
and Syria's nuclear reactor, 233-34

  
as weapons supplier to Israel, 112, 226, 231

  
and weapons supplies for terrorists, 274, 275, 276

Valley of Tears, 207, 209

Vietnam War, 138

Vilnai, Matan, 19-20

Vinick, Commander (IDF), 219

War of Attrition

  
Egypt and, 102, 103-11, 115, 123-30, 132-38

  
Green Island raid and, 103-11

  
Ras Gharib raid and, 123-30

  
Sinai Peninsula and, 103, 134, 135-36

  
Soviet involvement in, 132-38

  
Suez Canal and, 122, 123-30, 132, 134

  
turning point in, 110

War of Independence

  
Arabs and, 28, 35

  
British in, 137

  
Jerusalem and, 29-36, 52, 92, 99

  
Jordan and, 28, 29, 183

  
planning during, 14

Warsaw Pact, 253

Washington Post
: and Cast Lead Operation, 292

Weizman, Ezer, 58, 82, 86, 226, 227-28, 249, 321

Weizmann Institute, 144, 253

West Bank

  
Defensive Shield Operation in, 278-85

  
Iranian Revolutionary Guards in, 275

  
kidnapping and murder of three teenagers in, 298-99, 304

  
Six Day War and, 6, 88, 90, 99, 102

  
terrorists in, 277, 278-85, 298-99, 304

West Bank Division (IDF), 285

Whichelaw, Andrew, 168

World War II, 6, 31, 62-63, 64, 65, 110, 116, 128

Yaakobi, Dedi, 94

Yaakov, Yaakov, 45

Yaakov, Yiftah, 196

Ya'alon, Moshe “Bogie,” 189-90, 260, 262, 300, 322

Ya'ari, Yedidya “Didi,” 108, 109, 267

Yadin, Yigael, 28, 29, 30, 228

Yadlin, Amos, 228

Yaffe, Yossi, 92

Yair, Yuval “Ya Ya,” 190

Yairi, Uzi, 197, 198, 200, 258

Yamam (Israeli border guard), 258

Yariv, Aharon, 133, 143, 144, 162, 164

Yaron, Amos, 312

Yatom, Danny, 148, 150

Yemen: and Iran as weapons supplier for terrorists in Gaza, 270

Yifrach, Eyal, 298-99

Yiftach Brigade (IDF), 279, 280

Yom Kippur War (1973)

  
Amin and, 5

  
beginning of, 174, 178, 180, 193

  
Bravehearts Operation during, 179-90, 193

  
“Chinese Farm” and, 186, 191, 192-201

  
Egypt and, 178, 179-90, 192-201

  
Golan Heights and, 174, 180, 202, 203-13, 289

  
Mount Hermon and, 214, 215-21

  
Sinai Peninsula and, 179, 180, 192-201

  
Suez Canal and, 174, 179, 180, 181, 182, 183, 185, 187, 188, 190, 191, 199

  
Syria and, 178, 180, 202, 203-13, 215-21

  
traffic congestion during, 184

Yonatan, Operation, 23, 252

Yonay, Ehud, 135

Yurchenko, Nikolai (Soviet pilot), 135

Yussuf, Abu (aka Muhammad al-Najar), 165, 170

Yussuf, Maha, 170

Zamir, Meir “Tiger,” 211

Zamir, Zvi, 162, 164

Zamosh, Yoram, 92, 98-99

Ze'evi, Rehavam “Gandhi,” 67, 142, 148, 321

Zero Visibility Squadron (IAF), 52

Zidon, Yoash “Chatto”.
See
Tzidon, Yoash “Chatto”

Zim (Israeli shipping company), 116, 118

Zinni, Anthony, 275

Ziv, Shaul, 165

Zohar, Ben-Zion, 84-85

Zuriel, Israel, 95

Zussman, Giora, 17, 18, 26

MICHAEL BAR-ZOHAR
is a writer, public speaker, and former lawmaker. Author of many novels and nonfiction books, he was a member of the Knesset and envoy to the Council of Europe. A former adviser to General Moshe Dayan, Dr. Bar-Zohar has also served as a professor at Haifa University in Israel and at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. He is one of Israel's foremost experts on espionage and the official biographer of David Ben-Gurion and Shimon Peres. He also wrote the biography of Isser Harel, the legendary Director of the Mossad, and coauthored
The Quest for the Red Prince
, which dealt with the bloody war between the Mossad and Black September. Bar-Zohar's books have been translated into eighteen languages.

NISSIM MISHAL
is one of the foremost TV personalities in Israel. After graduating with a master's degree in political science, he joined the staff of the Israeli state television and worked as a political reporter, Washington correspondent, and, finally, its director-general. On the fiftieth and sixtieth anniversaries of Israel, Mishal published two record-selling books about the great events in Israel's history. They were translated into English, French, Russian, and Spanish. He has also coauthored a book on two thousand years of Judaism with Professor Shlomo Ben-Ami, a former Israeli minister of foreign affairs.

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The Man Who Died Twice

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Enigma

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The Devil's Spy

A Spy in Winter

Brothers

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Ben-Gurion: The Armed Prophet

The Hunt for German Scientists

Embassies in Crisis

The Avengers

The Paratroopers' Book
(with Eitan Haber, Hebrew)

Spies in the Promised Land: Isser Harel and the Israeli Secret Service

Arrows of the Almighty

Ben-Gurion: A Biography
(3 Volumes, Hebrew)

Ben-Gurion: A Biography

The Quest for the Red Prince

(with Eitan Haber, reprinted in 2005 as Massacre in Munich)

Facing a Cruel Mirror: Israel's Moment of Truth

Lionhearts: Heroes of Israel
(editor)

Bitter Scent: The case of L'Oreal, Nazis, and the Arab Boycott

The Book of Valor
(editor, Hebrew)

Beyond Hitler's Grasp: The Heroic Rescue of Bulgaria's Jews

To Be a Free People: The Saga of Israel
(editor)

Yaacov Herzog: A Biography

Shimon Peres: The Biography

Mossad: The Greatest Missions of the Israeli Secret Service

(with Nissim Mishal)

Cover design by Allison Saltzman

Cover photograph © by Gadi Kabalo

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