songwriting and musical career, 199–200, 201–3, 263, 305, 307, 327–29, 433–36, 443–44, 499–501
Ariel, Tirza
marriage and family, 155–57, 164, 198–99, 201, 278–79, 291–92, 399, 433, 474
professional life, 410–11
Arkia
and labor, 394, 399
partnership with Kanaf, 196–97, 271, 346–350
planes requisitioned during wartime, 231
and politics, 362–63, 392–93
running of, 350, 360, 412, 468–69
Artzi (kibbutz federation), 545n38. See also Ein Shemer, kibbutz
Ashkelon, 492, 552n335
Ashkenazi, Motti, xvi, 268–69, 272, 276, 550n268, 550n272
Atlit, 207
Atzmona, 375, 376
Barak, Ehud, 250
Bar-Ilan, Avraham, 379
Bar-Lev Line, 228, 236, 254, 262, 268, 276
Bar, Yehudah, 244
Baytin, 440
Becker, Chaim, 394
Begin, Menachem
appeal to Sephardim, 361–63
and arrest of Udi Adiv, 214
and Egypt peace treaty, 323–27, 335
and Hanan Porat, 322–24, 326, 353–54, 552n322
reaction to Sabra and Shatilla massacre, 390–91
resignation as prime minister, 417, 554n391
and West Bank settlements, 322–23, 326, 335, 353–54
Beirut
and Fatah, 497
IDF withdrawal from, 397
and Lebanon War, 387–90, 392, 395, 554n388
Udi Adiv trip to, 211–12
Beirut-Damascus Highway, 384–85
Beit Lid bombing, 495
Ben-Aharon, Yitzhak, 320
Ben-Dov, Shabbtai, 339–40, 552n339
Ben-Gurion, David, 41, 101–2, 115, 289, 301
Ben-Gurion Airport, 323, 347, 453, 457, 468
Ben-Noon, Uri, 469
Ben-Shlomo, Yosef, 497–98
Ben-Zvi, Rachel Yanaít, 489–90
Bet El, 499
Bethlehem, 112, 114, 144, 266, 318, 405, 506, 510. See also Rachel’s Tomb
Bikur Cholim Hospital, 73, 75, 95, 102
Bin-Nun, Esther, xiv, 30–31, 34, 123, 153, 229, 261–62, 266, 281, 294, 372, 519
Bin-Nun, Yoel, xiii
and Bnei Akiva, 19, 179
childhood and family, 19–22, 27–28
and Esther Bin–Nun, 30–31, 34, 123, 153, 261–62, 266, 281, 294, 372, 519 (see also Bin-Nun, Esther)
friendships, 257–59, 314, 368, 389
and Gush Emunim, 280–83, 288–91, 297, 299–302, 322, 376, 450 (see also Gush Emunim)
in Jerusalem during the Six–Day War, 93–94, 97–98, 101, 105, 108
and Jewish access to the Temple Mount, 337–38, 340–41, 414, 537–38
and Mercaz Harav yeshiva, xviii, 23–28, 31–33, 56, 145–46
military service, xviii–xix, 29–30, 61, 63, 70, 74, 76, 78, 89, 93–94, 97–98, 101, 119–20, 126, 159, 228–32, 245, 248–49, 261–62, 265–66, 536
and Mount Etzion Yeshiva, 123, 154, 170, 203–5, 228, 275–66, 304–5, 369–70
in Nekudah, 397, 403–404, 449, 480, 491–93, 554n395, 555n449, 556n492
and Ofra, 313, 338–39, 365–66, 423–24, 519
and Ofra Ulpana, 444–45, 448
and religious Zionism, 22, 24, 63, 109, 205, 257–58, 265, 280, 397, 403–404, 425–26
response to attacks on Arabs, 356
and settlement politics, 320, 322, 324, 370–71, 418–20, 438–39, 446–51, 458–59, 463–64, 477, 479–80, 482–85, 490–93, 495–96, 505, 507, 515–16
and Yamit, 365–66, 369–70, 372, 374, 376, 379, 390
and Yitzhak Rabin, 280–81, 289–90, 449–51, 459, 463–64, 477, 479–80, 483–85, 491, 495–96, 505, 507–14, 556n463
Black Panthers, 219
Black September, 210
Bnei Akiva (youth movement), xiv, 19–21, 27, 29, 148, 178–81, 294, 298
Borowitz, Dadi, 347, 384
Bracha (settlement), 404
B’Tselem, 483
bypass roads, 484, 505
Café Casit, 189–90, 192, 198, 549n189
Carter, Jimmy, 334, 353
Cherkas, 131, 138–39, 162, 218, 429
ChimAvir, 173–74
Chinese Farm, 237, 240, 241, 244, 550n240
Clinton, Bill, 477, 511, 528–29, 531
Cohen, Yehoshua, 289
Commando Unit 101, 42, 46, 47, 82, 238, 536
communism, 5–6, 13, 16, 137, 156, 161–62, 209, 216, 321, 531. See also Hashomer Hatzair (youth movement)
Communist Party (Israel), 161, 162, 208
Damascus, 163, 211–14, 217, 428, 520
Damascus Gate, iv, 66, 97, 291
Davar (newspaper), 187, 301, 549n217, 549n219
Davidovich, Menachem, 246, 248
Dayan, Moshe
during Six-Day War, 82, 92–93, 103
and eulogy of Uri Ilan, 163
and the Temple Mount, 337
during Yom Kippur War, 227, 233, 257, 268, 271–72, 277, 325
Dead Sea Works, 469
Debby, Motti, 468
Democratic Movement for Change (DMC), 319
Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (DFLP), 451
Derekh Hanitzotz, 451
Detroit, 157, 164, 200, 202, 255
Dome of the Rock, the
plot to bomb, xv, 340, 414, 420, 421, 447, 519
Six-Day War and, 93, 105, 108–9, 176
and the Temple Mount, 92, 205, 337
Dylan, Bob, 165, 327, 329, 408, 433, 552n329
Eban, Abba, 57, 482
Eder, Yehudah, 433
Education Ministry, 445, 463
Efrat, General Yona, 282, 299, 300, 405, 551n282
Eilat, Uzi, 239
Ein Gev, kibbutz, 453
Ein Shemer, kibbutz, 2
and Avital Geva, 3–11, 14–17, 128, 309, 315, 321–22, 343–44, 391
and Haggai Erlichman, 73, 161
ideological shifts at, 130, 136–37, 193–94, 407–8, 430–41, 473, 518
jubilee project at, 315–16, 329–30
rift with Kibbutz Gan Shmuel, 60–61
Ein Yabroud, 290, 292, 310, 367, 437
El Al, 196, 346, 363
El Arish, 35, 53, 58, 63, 67–69
El Bireh, 445
El Har Hashem (organization), 337
Elazar, David, 277, 325
Erez, Chaim, 378–79
Erez, Hanan, 237–38, 550n240
Erlichman, Haggai, 17, 73, 161
Eshkol, Levi, 57, 82, 142–43, 152, 280
Ethiopian immigrants, 426
Etzion, Yehudah
attacks on Palestinians, 355–56
ideology of, 204–5, 310, 338, 365
opposition to attack at Islamic College, 413
participation in settlement building, 290–91
plan to bomb the Dome of the Rock, 340, 414, 420, 423, 447, 519
Fatah, 29, 480, 485, 497
55th Paratroopers Reserve Brigade, 17, 31, 35, 67, 100, 105, 166, 252. See also Foundation for the Families of the Fallen of the 55th Brigade and individual unit members
absorption of 28th, 52
author interviews with, xxii, xxiv
dispatched to Jerusalem, 69, 70
families of, 312
kibbutznik origins of, xxiii, 252
in Lebanon, 388, 397
legacy of, 521, 530
members of, xiii, xv, xxii, 56, 107, 108, 176, 229, 349, 384, 476
operations in Golan, 103, 104, 252
operations in Jerusalem, xvii, xviii, 80, 373
operations in Sinai, 35, 68, 270
training, 165
in Yom Kippur War, 253, 260
flags
Israeli, 39, 71, 91–93, 121, 128, 144, 162, 176, 270, 280, 363, 442
Jordanian, 79, 84
Palestinian, 440
Soviet, 17, 39, 128, 162, 193–94, 363
white, 100, 115
Foundation for the Families of the Fallen of the 55th Brigade, 176–77, 191, 206–7, 312
Fradkin, Yossi, 89, 92, 245
Fried, Yochanan, 124, 145, 273
Gan Shmuel, kibbutz
debates about Zionism at, 129–31
rift with kibbutz Ein Shemer, 60–61
and Udi Adiv, 129–30, 138, 161–63, 197–98, 215–16, 427–29
Gemayel, Bashir, 390
Gershuni, Moshe, 195
Geva, Ada, xiv, 102, 136, 308, 465
Geva, Avital, xiii
and Ada Geva, 10–15, 102 (see also Geva, Ada)
art projects, 193–96, 202, 283–84, 308–10, 315–16, 329–31, 343–44, 391, 464–67, 471–73
childhood and family, 8–9, 430 (see also Geva, Kuba)
friendships, 127–28, 257–58, 261, 265, 406–7, 410, 514–15
greenhouse, xii, 284, 315–16, 329–32, 343–44, 431, 464–67, 470–73, 517–18, 532, 556n464
injury during Six-Day War, 75, 95, 102, 109, 127–28, 146
and Kibbutz Ein Shemer, 3–4, 7–10, 14–17, 60–61, 146–47, 193–96, 283–84, 308–10, 315–16, 326–27, 329–33, 343–44, 407–8, 430–31, 518 (see also Ein Shemer, kibbutz)
military service, xvii–xviii, 12–14, 17–18, 60–62, 73, 75, 234–35, 243–44, 248–51, 256–57, 388–89
politics of, 136–37, 319–20, 322–23, 326–27, 364, 391, 406–7, 532–33
and socialism, 5–6, 13, 16–17
and Udi Adiv, 160–61, 216
Geva, Kuba, xiv, 8–9, 15, 102, 147, 430
Gilo, 405, 507
Givat Brenner, kibbutz, 2
and Arik Achmon, 36, 37–40, 51, 67, 394, 412
and Enzo Sereni, 36–37
and kibbutz federations, 545n38
and Netzer Sereni, 43, 45
Givat Haviva, 309
Golan Heights, 2, 112
capture during Six-Day War, xix, 103–4
and land-for-peace deals, 142
outings to, 206
settlement on, 220–21, 267, 279, 297
terrorist attacks on, 297–98, 303
and water control, 51
and Yom Kippur War, 227, 230
Goldfarb, Alex, 507
Goldstein, Dr. Baruch, 377, 486–87, 489–90
Goren, Rabbi Shlomo, 80–81
as chief rabbi of Israel, 254
during Six-Day War, 89, 92–93, 96–98, 547n93
and the Temple Mount, 337
and Yamit evacuation, 377
Gorodish, Shmuel, 233, 234, 258
Gouri, Haim, 301, 541, 545n13
Great Bitter Lake, the, 168, 236, 237, 245
Greenberg, Uri Zvi, 186, 187
Gross, Aharon, 413
Grossman, Avishai, 315
Grossman, David, 437–39, 447, 555n437
Gruensweig, Emil, xv, 401, 402, 403
Gulf War, 455–58
Gur-Ari, Yaakov, 306
Gush Emunim
founding of, 267–68
and Hanan Porat, 267–68, 272–73, 289–90, 322–23, 548n143
Gush Emunim (cont.)
ideology, 288–90
government negotiations with, 302, 322–23, 326
Sebastia, expansion into, 296–302, 308, 318, 481, 506 (see also Sebastia)
and settlements, 279–82, 290–91, 296–97, 376
Gush Etzion, 547n114, 547n122, 548n143. See also Kfar Etzion
Gush Katif, 335–336
Ha’aretz (newspaper), 132, 186, 478–79, 517, 530
Haber, Eitan, 483, 505, 549n209
Habonim (youth movement), 157, 164
Hadassah House, 332, 333, 355
Haifa, 2, 112, 405
municipality, 27
and secularism, 19–20, 27–28, 178–80
and Udi Adiv, 198, 208, 520
and Yisrael Harel, 178–80, 181
and Yoel Bin-Nun, 19–21, 27
Hakibbutz Hadati (kibbutz movement), 545n38
Ha-Lamed Hey, kibbutz, 147
Hamas, 480, 483–85, 491, 515
HaMa’alot MiMa’amakim (book), 275
Hamashbir Hamerkazi, 411
Hanoch, Shalom, xvi, 200, 306, 425, 500–501, 524, 526, 555n425
Hanukkah, symbolism for settlement movement, 254, 297–99
Haran family, 383
Harel, Eldad, 333, 366–68, 372, 424, 442, 476
Harel, Sarah, xiv, 183–86, 311, 333–34, 336, 353, 368, 372, 378, 442, 494
Harel, Yisrael, xiv, 176
and Bnei Akiva, 178–81, 183, 206, 266, 314, 333
childhood and family, 178–80
and Eldad Harel, 366–69, 442
and Foundation for the Families of the Fallen of the 55th Brigade, the, 177, 191, 206–7, 312–13
friendships, 266, 313, 316–17, 325, 407, 476–77
and hunger strike, the, 353–54
journalism, 186, 189, 314, 334, 404, 517, 530
military service, 180, 185, 231–32, 238, 259
and Movement for the Complete Land of Israel, the, 187–91
name change, 182
and Nekudah, 335–37, 356, 423, 449, 480, 483, 489, 493
and Ofra, 311, 314, 316–17, 333, 351–52, 519
politics of, 269, 278, 300, 320, 355, 389, 392, 417–18, 421–22, 424, 450–51, 478–79, 483, 493–94, 496–99, 512–13
reaction to attack on Arab buses, 417–22
report on Yom Kippur War, 259–60
and Sarah Harel, 183–84, 186, 311, 442
and Yamit, 372, 375–78
and Yesha Council, 357–59, 426, 496, 516
and Yitzhak Rabin, 450–51, 478, 485
Harodi, Amnon, 17, 128, 136
Hashomer Hatzair (youth movement)
and Ada Geva, 13, 107, 195
and Avital Geva, 8, 11, 13
ideology of, 11, 127, 514
and Kibbutz Ein Shemer, 5, 17, 60, 545n38
and Udi Adiv, 130, 138–39, 216, 428
and Yaakov Hazan, 6, 171, 215–16, 549n215
Hatikvah (Israeli national anthem), 92, 178, 379, 402
Hawara, 280, 298–99, 301, 303, 371
Hawatmeh, Naif, 208, 209, 211
Hazan, Yaakov, 5, 6, 141, 171–74, 197, 215–16, 226, 277, 288, 549n215
Hazan, Yehudit. See Achmon, Yehudit
Hazaz, Haim, 186
Hazman Havarod (newspaper), 524, 557n524
Hebron, 112, 318, 405. See also Goldstein, Dr. Baruch
Arab attacks against Jews in 1929, 151–52, 332, 354, 487
first Jews in, following Six-Day War, 151–53, 189, 332
religious significance (see Tomb of the Patriarchs)
terrorist attacks in, 354–56, 413, 441
Herzog, Chaim, 296–97, 421, 546n68
Hezbollah, 450
Hezekiah’s Tunnel, 448
Histadrut labor union, 27, 179, 286, 347–48, 349, 393, 395, 399, 468
Horowitz, Yigal, 346–47, 362
hunger strike, 268–69, 352–55, 357, 552n351, 553n353
Hussein, king of Jordan, 63, 68, 185, 219, 523
Hussein, Saddam, 362, 455
Ichud (kibbutz federation), 106, 545n38
Ilan, Shimon, 163, 215
Ilan, Uri, xvi, 163, 213, 215
Independence Day
1948, 115
1967, 34, 60, 114
1973, 225, 278
religious Zionists and, 20, 32–34, 56, 117, 121, 404–6, 418
immigrants and immigration
absorption centers, 426
American, 186, 192, 377
in the IDF, 40, 52
Sephardi, 220, 361–62
Soviet, 457–58, 481, 482
inflation, 343, 363, 407, 408, 425, 430, 481
intifada
effect on public opinion, 481
violence during, 440–42, 456, 458–59
and Yitzhak Rabin, 449–50, 458–59, 481
and Yoel Bin-Nun, 446–50
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Iron Curtain, 457
Ismailia, 247, 249, 325
Islamic College attack, 413, 417–18, 422
Jabalya, 497
Jabotinsky, Zeev, 321
Jericho Road, 84, 88, 158, 160, 405, 476, 484, 505, 536
Jerusalem, iv, xix, xxii, 2, 20, 42, 60, 66, 81, 109, 112, 115, 119, 120, 124, 152, 153, 154, 204, 253, 266, 280, 294, 310, 318, 361, 366, 405, 422, 472, 482, 484, 495, 507
Anwar Sadat visits, 325
battle for, xiii, xv, xvii, xxi, 63–65, 66, 68–73, 80, 86, 88–90, 110, 118, 128, 129, 139, 140, 145, 155, 159, 162, 166, 191, 252, 259, 434, 504, 533–34, 536
as capital of Israel, 88, 151, 528, 535
destruction commemorated, 153, 295, 504
55th Paratroopers Reserve Brigade and, xviii, 63, 67, 69, 103, 104, 107, 108, 118, 128, 145, 158, 191, 217, 235, 252, 270, 373, 476–77, 504, 521–22, 530, 535
final status of, 142, 480, 508, 528, 530, 531
under Israeli rule, 81, 82, 142, 414, 477
under Jordanian rule, xvii, 23, 185
Old City of, xxiii, 23, 60, 68, 82, 88–89, 114, 140, 291, 448, 497, 536
and Oslo Accords, 476–77, 480, 506–7
prime minister’s office in, 268, 272, 388, 401, 402
reunited, xix, 32–33, 95, 100, 101, 113, 118, 152, 521, 536
as site of Temple, 20, 24, 28, 32, 63, 88–89, 203, 205, 448, 504, 536
terrorism in, xxii, 42, 417, 531
Jerusalem Day, 533–34
Jewish Agency, the, 457
Journal of Palestine Studies, 497
Kach, 377, 486. See Kahane, Meir
Kafr Sil, 388, 389
Kahan, Yitzhak, 401
Kahan Commission, 402
Kahane, Meir, 377, 378, 486, 488–89, 524
Kaisar, Yisrael, 393–94, 468–69
Kanaf, 174–75, 196–97, 271, 347
katyushas (rockets), 244, 248–49, 383, 387, 425, 492
Kedumim, 336, 357, 360, 405
Kfar Etzion, 318, 405. See also Mount Etzion yeshiva
and Hanan Porat, 122, 169, 267–68, 547n114
pre-1948, 115–17
settlement, 122–23, 143–44, 147–50, 267–68, 357, 547n114–116
and Yehudah Etzion, 204
Kfar Malal, 402
Khalidi, Walid, 497–99
kibbutz federations, 106, 173, 357, 453, 545n38. See also entries for individual federations
Kiryat Arba, 318, 405
and Baruch Goldstein, 486, 488–89
and Hebron, 332–33
and Moshe Levinger, xvi
Kiryat Shaul cemetery, 504
Kiryat Shmona, 434
Kishon, Ephraim, 288
Kissinger, Henry, 269
Klingberg, Dr. Marcus, 295, 452, 551n295
Klingberg, Sylvia, xiv, 162, 217, 286, 295, 452
Kfar Szold, kibbutz, xiv, 292
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