by David Landau
Weizman, Ezer, 2.1, 4.1, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 8.1, 8.2, 10.1n
resignation of, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4
West Bank, 1.1, 2.1, 4.1, 9.1, 9.2, 10.1, 10.2, 11.1, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3, 13.1
Allon Plan and, 2.1, 9.1
Begin’s renunciation of annexation of
Camp David summit (2000) and, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3
Defensive Shield in
intifadas in, 8.1, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3, 12.4, 13.1, 13.2, 13.3, 13.4, 13.5, 13.6, 16.1
Israeli occupation of, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 5.1, 6.1, 6.2, 16.1
Israeli withdrawal from, 11.1, 11.2, 12.1, 15.1, 16.1, 16.2, 17.1, 17.2, 17.3, 17.4, 17.5, 17.6, 17.7, 17.8, 17.9, 17.10
Jordan’s acquisition of
Oslo Accords and, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, 10.4, app.1
Palestinian Authority in, 9.1, 15.1, 15.2
Palestinian enclaves in, 10.1, 11.1, 15.1
as Palestinian state, 9.1, 13.1, 17.1
reprisal actions in, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4
“safe passage” route and, 11.1, 17.1
security fence in, 13.1, 15.1, 15.2, 15.3, 16.1, 17.1, 17.2
settlements in, 4.1, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, 8.1, 8.2, 9.1, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, 11.1, 12.1, 12.2, 13.1, 14.1, 14.2, 15.1, 15.2, 15.3, 15.4, 15.5, 15.6, 16.1, 16.2, 17.1, 17.2, 17.3, 17.4, 17.5, 17.6
White Paper (1939)
Wilson, Woodrow
women, 13.1, 17.1
economy and, 14.1, 14.2, 14.3
in IDF, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 2.1, 6.1, 10.1
killing of, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 10.1
as suicide bombers, 13.1, 15.1
World Bank, 11.1, 15.1
World Zionist Organization (WZO), 1.1n, 5.1
Wye River Memorandum, 11.1, 12.1
Wye River Plantation conference center, 10.1, 10.2, 11.1
Ya’alon, Moshe, 15.1, 15.2, 15.3, 16.1, 17.1
Yadin, Yigael, 1.1n, 4.1, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, 5.5
Yamit, 2.1, 5.1, 10.1
yard, the, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4
Yariv, Aharon, 2.1, 3.1
Yaron, Amos, 6.1, 6.2
Yassin, Sheikh Ahmed, 10.1, 10.2, 15.1, 16.1, 16.2
Yatom, Danny, 10.1, 10.2n
Yedioth Ahronoth, 4.1, 4.2n, 8.1, 8.2, 9.1, 10.1, 12.1, 12.2, 14.1, 15.1, 15.2
Arik interviewed by
disengagement plan and
Greek island affair and
Yeltsin, Boris
yesh breira (war of choice)
Yishuv, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 5.1
Yisrael B’Aliya, 10.1n, 12.1n, 12.2, 12.3
Yitzhaki, Arye, 12.1, 12.2
Yitzhaki, Avigdor, 13.1, 15.1
Yoffe, Avraham, 1.1, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4n
in Six-Day War, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4
Yom Kippur War, 2.1n, 3.1, 4.1, 5.1, 5.2, 6.1, 9.1, 10.1, 12.1, 12.2, nts.1n
Bar-Lev Line and, 2.1, 2.2, 3.1, 3.2
cease-fire in, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 4.1, 4.2
conceptziya (the concept) and, 2.1, 3.1, 3.2n
intelligence failures in, 2.1, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4n, 4.1
investigation after, 3.1, 4.1, 4.2
Israeli turnaround in, 3.1, 3.2
Oct. 7 in, 3.1, 3.2
Oct. 8 in
Oct. 9–14 in
Oct. 15–16 in, 3.1, 3.2
peace efforts after, 4.1, 4.2
trauma of, 5.1, 6.1, 13.1
“war council on the dunes” in
“war of the generals” in, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5, 4.1, 4.2
Yosef, Rabbi Ovadia, 12.1, 12.2, 14.1, 17.1
Zahala, 1.1, 2.1
Zamir, Zvi, 3.1, 3.2
Ze’evi, Rehavam “Gandhi,” 1.1, 9.1, 13.1, 13.2, 13.3
Zeira, Eli, 3.1, 4.1, 4.2n
Zimmerman, Lily, see Sharon, Lily Zimmerman
Zimmerman, Margalit, see Sharon, Margalit Zimmerman
Zinni, Tony, 13.1, 13.2, 13.3, 15.1n
Zion, Mount
Zionism, 5.1, 7.1, 8.1, 9.1, 10.1, 12.1, 12.2, 15.1, 15.2, 16.1n, 17.1, 17.2, 17.3, 17.4, 17.5
“making the desert bloom” and
as racism
settlement policy and, 2.1, 5.1
Zionist General Council
Zionist Labor movement
Zionist Left
Zippori, Mordechai, 1.1, 2.1, 5.1
ILLUSTRATION CREDITS
ill.1 Mordechai Scheinerman: courtesy of Natana Levine
ill.2 Arik and Dita: courtesy of Natana Levine
ill.3 Farmyard: courtesy of Natana Levine
ill.4 Family portrait: courtesy of Natana Levine
ill.5 Avigail: courtesy of Natana Levine
ill.6 No annexation: courtesy of Natana Levine
ill.7 At the beach: courtesy of Natana Levine
ill.9 Seder night: courtesy of Natana Levine
ill.8 Miriam and Dita: courtesy of Natana Levine
ill.10 Young Sharon: courtesy of Natana Levine
ill.11 Neck-deep in fighting”: January 1948. Israel Defense Forces and Defense Establishment Archives (IDF Archives)
ill.12 Meir Har-Zion : IDF Archives, Assaf Kutin.
ill.13 “Hostile takeover”: IDF Archives, Avraham Vered
ill.14 Moshe Dayan : Israel Government Press Office (IGPO)
ill.15 “Ate from the same mess-tin”: IDF Archives, Avraham Vered
ill.16 Rehavam Ze’evi and Arik: IDF Archives, Avraham Vered
ill.17 David Ben-Gurion: IDF Archives, Avraham Vered
ill.18 Gur, Arik, Lily and Vera: IDF Archives, Avraham Vered. Courtesy of Gilad Sharon
ill.19 May 1967: IDF Archives
ill.20 Yael Dayan: IDF Archives, Amos Zucker
ill.21 Generals Tal, Sharon, Gavish, Yoffe: IDF Archives
ill.22 Arik and Ze’evi: IDF Archives
ill.23 Arik and Omri: IPPA photo archive
ill.24 Haim Bar-Lev and Dayan: IDF Archives, Giora Gera
ill.25 General Yoffe: IGPO
ill.26 Not up to the job: IPPA photo archive
ill.27 Colonel Amnon Reshef: IDF Archives, Eli Chen
ill.28 October 8: IDF Archives, Shlomo Arad
ill.29 Tanks: IDF Archives
ill.30 Amphibious bridging tugs: Shlomo Arad
ill.31 Bar-Lev: IGPO, Yossi Greenberg
ill.32 M-113 armored personnel carrier: IDF Archives
ill.33 Rolling bridge: IDF Archives, IDF Spokesman
ill.34 Dayan and Abrasha Tamir: IDF Archives
ill.35 Yaffa Yarkoni: Isaac Shokal
ill.36 “King of Israel”: IGPO, Moshe Milner
ill.37 Rabin: Uzi Keren, Haaretz Newspaper Archives ©
ill.38 Ministerial repast: Israel Sun, Israel Simyonski
ill.39 Anwar Sadat: Israel Sun
ill.40 Begin, Burg, and Katzover: IGPO, Chanania Herman
ill.41 Hebron Hills: IDF Archives
ill.42 Near the Canal: IDF Archives
ill.43 With his defense minister: IGPO, Nati Harnik
ill.44 Sa’ad Hadad: IDF Archives
ill.45 Begin and Hadad: IDF Archives, IDF Spokesman
ill.46 Beaufort: IDF Archives, Ministry of Defense
ill.47 Lebanon, June 1982: Shlomo Arad
ill.48 Yitzhak Shamir and Mordechai Zipori: IDF Archives, IDF Spokesman
ill.49 Rabin, Eitan, Tamir; IDF Archives, Uri Dan
ill.50 Bashir Gemayel: IDF and Defense Establishment Archives, Uri Dan
ill.51 Arik and Raful: IDF Archives
ill.51 Arik and Raful: IDF Archives
ill.52 Honor guard: Uzi Keren, Haaretz Newspaper Archives ©
ill.53 Protesters: Uzi Keren, Haaretz Newspaper Archives ©
ill.54 With unfurled maps: Israel Sun
ill.55 Yisrael Katz: Moshe Shai
ill.56 Lily: IGPO, Nati Harnik
ill.57 Druze feast: Leon Minster, Haaretz Newspaper Archives ©
ill.58 Arik, Modai, and Levy: Moshe Shai
ill.59 “Night of the Microphones”: Moshe Shai
ill.61 Minister of Housing: Israel Sun, Ilan Ossendryver
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ill.62 From Russia: Israel Sun, Ilan Ossendryver
ill.63 Sycamore Ranch soiree: Micky Kratzman, Haaretz Newspaper Archives ©
ill.64 Election night, 1992: Micky Kratzman, Haaretz Newspaper Archives ©
ill.65 King Hussein: IGPO, Amos Ben Gershom
ill.66 Netanyahu: IGPO, Ya’acov Sa’ar
ill.67 Yonatan: Moshe Shai
ill.68 Ehud Barak: IGPO, Avi Ohayon
ill.69 Temple Mount: AFP/Getty images
ill.70 Reuven Adler: Nir Kedar, Haaretz Newspaper Archives ©
ill.71 Uri Dan, Cyril Kern, Arie Genger: David Rubinger
ill.72 Coalition: IGPO, Amos Ben Gershom
ill.73 Marit Danon: IGPO, Moshe Milner
ill.74 Mayor Giuliani: IGPO, Amos Ben Gershom
ill.75 Shaul Mofaz and Binyamin Ben-Eliezer: IGPO, Moshe Milner
ill.76 “Teaching you where the fish pees from”: Amos Biderman, Haaretz Newspaper Archives ©
ill.77 Bus-bombing: IGPO, Avi Ohayon
ill.78 Dov Weissglas: Lior Mizrachi, Baubau Agency, Haaretz Newspaper Archives ©
ill.79 “Arik and I, I and Arik.”: Israel Sun
ill.80 Michal Modai: IGPO, Avi Ohayon
ill.81 Comfortable, confident, enjoying the job: Baubau Agency, Haaretz Newspaper Archives ©
ill.82 Oval Office: IGPO, Moshe Milner
ill.83 Aqaba, June 2003: Israel Sun, Ariel Jerozolimski
ill.84 “The president liked Sharon”: Alon Ron, Haaretz Newspaper Archives ©
ill.85 Mahmoud Abbas: IGPO, Avi Ohayon
ill.86 Peace diplomacy cartoon: Eran Wolkowski, Haaretz Newspaper Archives ©
ill.87 Rotem: IGPO, Avi Ohayon
ill.88 Yitzchak David Grossman: IGPO, Amos Ben Gershom
ill.89 Naomi Blumenthal: Pavel Wohlberg, Haaretz Newspaper Archives ©
ill.90 Dan Halutz and Moshe Ya’alon: Reuters
ill.91 Omri: Lior Mizrachi, Baubau Agency, Haaretz Newspaper Archives ©
ill.92 Tommy Lapid: Lior Mizrachi, Baubau Agency, Haaretz Newspaper Archives ©
ill.93 Festival of Tabernacles: IGPO, Avi Ohayon
ill.94 Atzmona: IGPO, Amos Ben Gershom
ill.95 Crawford, Texas: IGPO, Avi Ohayon
ill.96 Disengagement: IGPO, Mark Neyman
ill.97 Kfar Darom: IGPO, Yossi Zamir
ill.98 Hannuka: Lior Mizrachi, Baubau Agency, Haaretz Newspaper Archives ©
ill.99 Omri goes to jail: Israel Sun, Kfir Sivan
PERMISSION ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Grateful acknowledgment is made to the following for permission to reprint previously published material:
Greenhill Books: Excerpt from The War of Atonement by Chaim Herzog. Copyright © 1975 by Chaim Herzog. Reprinted by permission of Greenhill Books as administered by Pen & Sword Books.
The Orion Publishing Group: Excerpt from Moshe Dayan: Story of My Life by Moshe Dayan. Copyright © 1976 by Moshe Dayan. Reprinted by permission of The Orion Publishing Group.
Penguin Books Ltd.: Excerpt from Elusive Peace: How the Holy Land Defeated America by Ahron Bregman. Copyright © 2005 by Ahron Bregman and Brook Lapping Productions Ltd. Reprinted by permission of Penguin Books Ltd.
Random House LLC: Excerpt from On the Banks of the Suez: An Israeli General’s Personal Account of the Yom Kippur War by Avraham Adan. Translation copyright © 1980 by Presidio Press. Reprinted by permission of Presidio Press, an imprint of The Ballantine Publishing Group, a division of Random House LLC. All rights reserved.
Simon & Schuster, Inc.: Excerpt from Warrior: An Autobiography of Ariel Sharon with David Chanoff. Copyright © 1999, 2001 by Simon & Schuster, Inc. Reprinted by permission of Simon & Schuster, Inc.
A Note About the Author
David Landau immigrated to Israel from the United Kingdom as a young man. His career in journalism began in 1970 at The Jerusalem Post, and he joined Haaretz in 1993 as news editor. He founded of Haaretz’s English edition and was its editor from 1997 to 2004, and was editor in chief of Haaretz’s Hebrew edition until 2008. He is the longtime Israel correspondent for The Economist. Landau collaborated with Israel’s president Shimon Peres on Peres’ memoir, Battling for Peace, and he published, with President Peres, Ben-Gurion: A Political Life. He is also the author of Piety and Power, an account of the increasingly significant role the ultra-orthodox (haredi) play in Israel, the United States, and Europe. Landau graduated with a degree in law from University College London and studied in leading yeshivas in Israel. He is married with children and grandchildren and lives in Jerusalem.
For more information, please visit www.aaknopf.com
Illustrations
Mayflower man: Grandfather Mordechai Scheinerman (illustration credit ill.1)
A nicer childhood than he admitted to: Arik (left) and his sister, Dita, in Kfar Malal in 1933 (illustration credit ill.2)
Busy farmyard (illustration credit ill.3)
Family portrait to send home to Russia? Father Samuil and Mother Vera with Arik, Dita, and Vera’s brother, Joseph (illustration credit ill.4)
Fussily turned out: with Avigail, Samuil’s sister (illustration credit ill.5)
Defending the property: no annexation here (illustration credit ill.6)
Rare respite: Samuil with his two children at the Tel Aviv beach (illustration credit ill.7)
Stories from Petrograd: with Miriam and Dita (illustration credit ill.8)
Seder night at the Scheinermans, 1935: bare boards but fine wine. Left to right: Aunt Avigail with cousin Natana, Uncle Sholem with Arik, Vera with Dita, Grandmother Miriam, Samuil. (illustration credit ill.9)
A plump, clear-eyed boy, 1937 (illustration credit ill.10)
“Neck-deep in it and fighting”: January 1948 (illustration credit ill.11)
Reprisal operation: with “Israel’s finest soldier,” Meir Har-Zion, April 1954 (illustration credit ill.12)
Spirit of 101: “hostile takeover” of the paratroopers (illustration credit ill.13)
“Awarding wings” to Chief of Staff Moshe Dayan, 1955: a complicated lifelong relationship (illustration credit ill.14)
“Ate from the same mess tin”: Sinai War, October 1956 (illustration credit ill.15)
At the Mitle Pass, October 31, 1956. Rehavam Ze’evi (center) warns; Arik (left) laughs. Who directed the pointless battle that followed? (illustration credit ill.16)
Special affection: with David Ben-Gurion in 1957 (illustration credit ill.17)
“He really was a lovely boy.” Gur with Arik, Lily, and Vera, December 1963. (illustration credit ill.18)
May 1967: digging in on the Egyptian border (illustration credit ill.19)
With Yael Dayan, war correspondent, legend debunker (illustration credit ill.20)
The Six-Day War winning team, June 1967: Generals Tal, Sharon, Gavish, and Yoffe. (illustration credit ill.21)
On our side? Arik and Ze’evi pray together with Chief Chaplain Shlomo Goren, March 1968. An IDF reprisal force was pinned down across the Jordan border. (illustration credit ill.22)
Bereaved father, bereaved brother: Arik with Omri, May 1968 (illustration credit ill.23)
With Chief of Staff Haim Bar-Lev (left) and Dayan (right) on the Suez Canal. Israel’s initial defenses were “amateurish.” (illustration credit ill.24)
“I really like the Bedouin.” With General Avraham Yoffe, visiting Negev neighbors. (illustration credit ill.25)
Not up to the job: transferring Southern Command to General Shmuel Gonen, July 1973 (illustration credit ill.26)
“The situation was catastrophic. He was focused, businesslike, constructive.” With Colonel Amnon Reshef at the start of the Yom Kippur War, October 1973. (illustration credit ill.27)
October 8: Gonen tracks Arik down in the desert (illustration credit ill.28)
Grappling with the monster. Tanks drag the 180-meter-long rolling bridge toward the canal. (illustration credit ill.29)
Amphibious bridging tugs put the first Israeli tanks across (illustration cre
dit ill.30)
On the dunes with Haim Bar-Lev, October 17. “I kept myself from hitting him.” (illustration credit ill.31)
Command vehicle: M113 armored personnel carrier (illustration credit ill.32)
Monster in place: the rolling bridge viewed from the Israeli side of the canal (illustration credit ill.33)
With Dayan and Abrasha Tamir (top right). The superficial head wound dealt his rivals a mortal blow in the race for glory (illustration credit ill.34)
With iconic wartime singer Yafa Yarkoni, in “Africa,” days after the canal crossing (illustration credit ill.35)
“King of Israel”: reservists of the 143rd Division after the cease-fire (illustration credit ill.36)
Together, in lockstep, for decades: with Yitzhak Rabin, prime minister, 1976 (illustration credit ill.37)
Ministerial repast, 1978; lifelong yearning for falafel (illustration credit ill.38)
“Aha, it’s you.” Egyptian president and peacemaker Anwar Sadat. (illustration credit ill.39)
“A large Jewish settlement will surely arise near Nablus.” February 1981: the minister of agriculture and chairman of the cabinet settlement committee shows Prime Minister Menachem Begin and Interior Minister (and Palestinian autonomy negotiator) Yosef Burg (directly behind Begin) the site of Elon Moreh. Right, Gush Emunim leader Benny Katzover. (illustration credit ill.40)