The Prime Ministers: An Intimate Narrative of Israeli Leadership

  Knesset Cabinet Room, 156–157

  Knesset Foreign Affairs and Security Committee, 313

  Knesset, 138–139, 154, 156–158, 181, 200 (photo), 226–227, 230, 248, 255, 285, 287, 295, 300, 301, 302, 319, 321, 322, 335, 349, 352, 354, 355, 356, 364, 372, 377, 385, 386, 386 (photo), 401, 450 (photo), 457, 458, 464–465, 468, 470, 478, 531, 532, 535, 562, 565, 574, 579, 580–582, 582 (photo), 585–587, 604, 609, 668 (photo), 671; debate between Begin and Peres, 451–455; debate on El Al working on Shabbat, 595–600; debate on Yom Kippur War, 250–254; on Palestinians voting for, 478, 479; special session after Entebbe rescue, 314

  Kolowitz, Yossel, on Aegean Star, 33, 35, 38; see also Cole, Jay

  Koppel, Ted, 278

  Kotel, 159, 352; see also Western Wall

  Kreisky, Bruno, 199, 220; meeting with Golda Meir, 222–224

  Kuneitra Valley, 235

  L

  La Grand Scene (restaurant), 433

  Labor Party, 103, 109, 131, 199, 255, 261, 332, 453, 455; Central Committee, 262

  Labor Zionism, 107

  Lady Bird Johnson, 171

  Laird, Melvin, 193, 194

  Lapidot, Yehuda, 94

  Law of the Golan Heights, 579–588

  Lawrence of Arabia, 202

  Lawson, Nigel, 513

  League of Nations Supreme Council, 351

  League of Nations, 5

  Lechi (Israel Freedom Fighters), 17, 89, 94

  Leibowitz, Nehama, 397, 398

  Les Miserables, 687

  Lest We Forget, 560

  “Let My People Go” campaign, 220, 514

  Levine, Reb Aryeh, 236

  Levine, Reb Raphael, 365–366, 368–369

  Levy, Gershon, 87–93

  Lewis, Sallie, 584

  Lewis, Samuel, 387, 404, 410, 431, 494–495, 650 (photo), 651, 652, 654, 669; conveying Reagan Peace Plan, 629–635; delivering message from Reagan to Begin, 605, 627–629; extending Reagan invitation to Begin, 651–652, 654, 669, 671–672, 673–674; involvement with Sadat’s visit to Jerusalem, 457–458; meeting with Begin, 583–588; on hearing of Israel’s attack on Iraq’s nuclear reactor, 554–556, 567

  Liberty Bell Park, 137

  Lincoln, Abraham, 274, 347, 432, 617

  Linder, Elisha, 61, 63, 64

  Lion Gate, 159

  Lior, Colonel Yisrael, 141, 142, 154

  Lippu, Misha, 391–392

  Lishkat Hakesher, 94

  Little House on the Prairie, 560

  Lord Annan, 685, 687–688

  Lord Mountbatten of Burma, 685

  Lord Rothschild, 684

  Los Angeles Century Plaza Hotel, 654

  Lubavitcher Rebbe, 318, meeting with Prime Minister Begin, 406–407, 407 (photo); meeting with Yehuda Avner, 443–446

  Lysol, 523

  M

  Machaneh Yehuda, 12, 46

  Machon, 28, 30 (photo), 40–41, 45, 46, 69–70, 84, 88

  Mahler, Gustav, 52

  Mahler, Leopold, 52, 53–57, 62–65, 68,

  69

  Maki (political party), 84

  Malechek, Dale, 157

  Mamilla Road, 136

  Manifesto of Revolt, Begin’s, 8–9

  Mapai – Workers’ Party of Eretz Yisrael, 103–104, 349

  Margolit, Dan, 331

  Marine Band, 274

  Marine Chamber Orchestra, 274

  Marines Corp, 274

  Maronite Christian community

  (Lebanon), 561, 635

  Martin, Cliff, 21, 25

  Marx Brothers, 177

  Mary Lou (White House Housekeeper), 430

  Mau Mau, 503

  Mayfair Hotel, 127

  McAdam, Jock, 52, 53–57, 62–65, 68, 69; fight in Café Atara, 56–57

  McFarlan, Bud, 561, 672, 677, 678

  McNamara, Robert, 177

  Meah Shearim, 34, 65

  Meet the Press, 446

  Mein Kampf, 343

  Meir, Golda, 44, 97, 101, 104, 142, 155, 181, 187, 193, 199, 200 (photo), 201–203, 226–227, 230–231, 234, 237 (photo), 238 (photo), 248–249, 255–256, 321, 364, 369, 370, 381, 396, 401, 461, 464, 676; African policy of, 104–107, 235–236, 306, 676; Knesset debate on Yom Kippur War, 250–264; meeting with Bruno Kriesky, 222–224; opposition to Moshe Dayan in national unity government, 151; opposition to William Rodgers, 190; and the Socialist International, 202, 254–255; resignation as prime minister, 256, 261; visit to troops on the Golan Heights, 235–241; visit to Great Synagogue (Moscow), 240

  Menachem Begin Heritage Center, Jerusalem, 674

  Mengele, Dr., 315

  Mengistu Hailé Mariam, 413–414

  “Merry Wives of Windsor,” 151

  Metropolitan Police (London), 126

  Metternich, Prince Klemens von, 263, 300

  Mexican war, 617

  Meyerson, Menachem, 211

  Meyerson, Morris, 107, 211–213

  Meyerson, Sara, 211

  MI6, 516–518

  Missouri Waltz, The 118

  Mitla and Gidi Passes, 243, 279, 290, 297, 321, 481

  Mohammedanism, 517

  Monnet, Jean, 220

  Montgomery, General, 550

  Mossad, 414, 516, 518, 551, 552

  Mount Herzl, 60

  Mount of Olives, 45, 659, 693, 694, 695 (photo)

  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

  Observer, 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, 707n54; 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