The Prime Ministers: An Intimate Narrative of Israeli Leadership (86 page)

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

Observe
r
, 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, 707
n
54; 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

Sasson, Moshe, 574, 662–663

Sassover, Reb Yisrael (pseudonym of Begin), 13–16; 14 (photo)