The Prime Ministers: An Intimate Narrative of Israeli Leadership (87 page)

Savoy Hotel, 12

Schecter, Jerrold, 278

Schindler, Alexander and interview with Menachem Begin, 497–498

Schleider’s kosher caterers (Baltimore, Maryland), 493

Schmidt, Helmut, 543–545

Schneerson, Rabbi Menachem Mendel
see
Lubavitcher Rebbe

Schoenau transit camp, 219–224

Scotland Yard, 126, 678

Scott, C.P., 514

Sea of Galilee, 76, 116

Sejera (base camp), 72

self-restraint, policy of, 8

Settlement freeze, 630

Settlements, 17, 28, 154, 248, 278, 287, 301, 423, 424, 431, 434, 480–491, 484, 507–508, 549, 574, 589, 630

Shah of Iran, 459, 517

Sharett, Moshe, 364

Sharm el-Sheikh, 590

Sharon, Ariel, 386, 569, 571, 584, 602 (photo), 684; attending Sadat’s funeral (photo), 575; exchange with Anwar Sadat, 461; on “indirect responsibility” for Sabra and Shatila, 646; on memorandum of understanding with the United States, 569, 571–572; on situation in Lebanon, 599, 600, 603, 605, 608,

Shin Bet, 518

Shivat Zion
, 68

Shultz, George, 630

Shuttle Diplomacy, 277–278

Shylock, 473, 475 (photo of letter)

Sidon, 615, 619

Silver, Eric, 233

Simcha, Reb, 14–16

Simpson, Wallis, 688

Sinai
II
,
see
Sinai interim agreement (1975)

Sinai interim agreement (1975), 183, 259, 283, 286, 289, 290, 295. 299, 302, 321, 323, 493

Sinai Peninsula, 161, 210, 225

Sinai Support Mission, 290

Sir Charles, 517–519

Sir Humphrey (Queen Elizabeth’s secretary), 684

Sisco, Joe, 191, 278, 280

Six-Day War (1967), 84, 101, 144 (photo), 163 (photo), 166, 174, 176,182, 204, 210, 222, 225, 227, 248, 255, 259, 263, 297, 303, 308, 314, 328, 341, 350

Socialist International, 202, 253–254

Solidarity
movement (Poland), 579

Soloveitchik, Joseph B. (also known as Yosef Ber), 406, 661

Soviet Jewry, 220, 516

Soviet-Syrian
MIG
25, 636

Soviet-Syrian
MIG
s, 616, 636

Srulik (participant in Bible Study Circle), 397

St. Julian’s Way, 136–137

Stalinism, 97, 240, 392

“Star Spangled Banner,” 410

State banquet (White House), 273

Steel, David, 512

Stone, Richard, 430, 431

Storrs, Ronald, 202

Straits of Tiran, 135, 163 (photograph), 590;
see also
Tiran Straits

Strangeways (neighborhood where Yehuda Avner was born), 6

Suez Canal, 50, 199, 225, 233, 234–235, 248, 252, 297, 321, 461

Suez War 1956, 97, 174, 501

Sukkot, 236, 239–240

Summer White House (Truman), 118

Swanson, Gloria, 430

Sydney Symphony Orchestra, 53

Syria et Palestina
, 418

T

Tchaikovsky, 524

Teitelbaum, Rabbi Yoel, 497

Tel Aviv, 4, 12, 13, 14, 19, 21, 45, 50, 53, 64, 66, 69, 70, 71, 82, 93, 127, 139, 148, 150, 151, 153, 154, 156, 212, 303, 304, 308, 311, 332, 346, 365, 382, 389, 421, 487, 504, 514, 535, 539, 587, 624, 629, 634, 658

Temple Mount, 10, 158, 159, 446, 464

Templeton Prize, 511

“Termination of the state of belligerency,” 277

Thatcher, Denis, 549, 697, 698, 701

Thatcher, Margaret, 502 (photo), 548, 549, 556, 689 698 (photo); as host to Prime Minister Begin, 503–509; Prime Minister Begin’s reaction to, 519–520; as host to Yehuda Avner, 697–703

There’s a song in the ai
r
, 56

Thorne, Thorne, 21–23

Throne Room, 547, 687

Time
, 350, 557, 703

Times
(London), 350

Tiran Straits, 140

Tisha b’Av, 406, 446

Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, 663

Tony (from Detroit), 543–545

Tower of Babel, 609

Toynbee, Arnold, 169

Trash, Merry, 430, 431, 433, 434

Treaty Room (White House), 435

Truman, Bess, 118

Truman, Harry S., 97, 112, 411; meeting with Yehuda Avner, 115–122

Twain, Mark, 417–418

Tzedek, Tzemach, 92

U

U.S.-Israel joint statement (13 July 1981), 561, 562 (text), 562 (photo of Begin’s draft)

UN partition resolution, 3, 41, 43 (photo), 42 (photo of Yehuda Avner’s diary on that day), 69, 120, 351

UN Resolution 242, 101, 182, 226, 228, 244, 350, 355, 412, 425–427, 432, 480, 481

UN Resolution 338, 425–427

UN Security Council, 157, 159, 166, 244, 396, 556, 557, 581

United Jewish Appeal, 264, 328, 390, 466, 467, 533, 541

United Nations, 50, 62, 69, 120, 135, 142, 202, 282, 296, 353, 396, 417, 432, 446, 458, 481, 498, 531–532, 539, 581, 606, 609, 610

United Nations General Assembly, 41; Menachem Begin’s speech before the, 608–609

United Resistance Command, 3, 17–18

United States Congress, 287, 288, 289, 299, 372, 562, 673

US State Department, 122, 187, 191, 192, 194, 322, 323, 404, 561

V

Vale of Tears, 235, 236

Valeriani, Richard, 278, 279

Vance, Cyrus, 387, 413, 415, 417, 423, 426, 480, 488–489, 494–496

Vance, Grace, 434

Vatican, 158, 542

Vietcong, 327

Vietnam War, 177, 187, 169, 194–195, 207, 208, 235, 585

Vietnam, 140, 170, 173, 195, 196, 226, 278, 327

Village Voice
, 405

Von Wechmar, Baron Rüdiger, 549

Von Weizacker, Freifrau, 547, 548, 550

Von Weizacker, Richard, 547, 548, 550

W

Waldheim, Kurt, 415 (photograph)

Waldorf Astoria, 328, 405, 496, 497

Walfish, Asher, 319–320, 322

Walpole, Robert, 131

Walters, Barbara, 274, 276

“Wandering Jew,” 127

Wannsee Conference, 545

War of Attrition, 199, 225–226, 228

War of Independence, 7–29, 19 (photo), 38–46, 47 (photo), 49–60, 58 (photo), 61–72, 136, 154, 159, 435

Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, 406

Warsaw University, 319, 341

Washington Heights, 267

Washington Hilton, 486, 487, 489, 490

Washington Post
, 187, 278

Wasserman, Chaim, 23

Watergate scandal, 243, 262, 263, 264, 270, 272

Wehrmacht, 544, 549, 688

Weinberger, Caspar, 557–559, 568–572, 582, 621, 623; letter from Menachem Begin, 558; signing memorandum of understanding, 572

Weiss, Yaakov, 21, 23, 24

Weizman, Ezer, 365, 386, 435, 482, 488, 523

Weizmann, Chaim, 8, 111, 419, 514; meeting with Harry S. Truman, 120–122

West Bank, 158, 161, 204, 287, 300, 301, 350–351, 387, 423–425, 434, 438–439, 451, 474, 496, 523, 525, 528, 630, 631, 636, 637; discussion about between Menachem Begin, Jimmy Carter, Moshe Dayan, and Zbigniew Brzezinski, 476–481

Western Wall, 9, 10, 154, 158, 159, 160, 161, 162

White House Press Office, 427

White House Protocol Office, 167

Whitehall, 20, 25, 50, 130, 507

Wilde, Oscar, 107

Wilson, Harold, 125, 126, 129, 131–132, 512

Wilson, Woodrow, 617

Windsor Castle, 684

Wingate, Orde, 514

Wolfe (volunteer at Kibbutz Lavi), 77, 84

Wolfson, Isaac, 366, 367, 369

World Moslem Congress, 511

Y

Yaacobi, Gad, 304

Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial, 464, 699

Yadin, Yigael, 538

Yaffe, Adi, 109, 128, 131, 132, 149, 166; as Yehuda Avner’s contact at the
Foreign
Ministry, 104

Yamit, 590

Yavin, Chaim, 345

Yavniel Valley, 76

Yehuda and Samaria, 287, 300;
see
also
West Bank

Yemin Moshe, 137, 139

Yeshiva University, 406

YMCA
, 52, 55

Yom Kippur, 9, 10, 11, 209, 233, 234, 239, 250, 251, 252, 644

Yom Kippur War, 199, 224, 225–256, 237 (photo), 238 (photo), 261, 263, 265, 266, 270, 271, 278,282, 296, 297, 310, 321, 356, 461, 501, 579, 584, 676; Egyptian surface-to-air missiles, 225–256; Golda Meir’s visit to the troops during, 236–241; Knesset debate on, 250–254; telephone conversation between Nixon and Kissinger about, 243–247

Young, David, 512, 513

Z

Zabush, 644

Zacks, Gordon (Gordie), 467–468, 470

Zadok, Chaim, 57, 59, 64, 66

Zion Square, 57, 59, 64, 66

Zuckerman, Pinchas, 494

Zyklon-
B
gas, 559