Read The Prime Ministers: An Intimate Narrative of Israeli Leadership Online
Authors: Yehuda Avner
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80.
Remarks at the Welcoming Ceremony for Prime Minister Menahem Begin of Israel
, September 9, 1981, The Public Papers of President Ronald W. Reagan, Ronald Reagan Presidential Library. www.reagan.utexas.edu.
81. Israel Government Press Office.
82. Author’s notes.
83. Reconstructed from Lewis, interview,
ADST
.
84. Dan Raviv and Yossi Melman,
Friends in Deed
(New York: Hyperion, 1994), 200.
85. Begin Center Archives.
86.
Israel Government Press Office Bulletin
, October 11, 1981.
87.
Haaretz
, December 4, 1981.
88. Based on cabinet minutes, December 12, 1981.
89. Extrapolated from Lewis, interview,
ADST
.
90. Reconstructed from the author’s notes;
Israel Government Press Office Bulletin
, December 20, 1981; interview with Ambassador Samuel Lewis; and Lewis, interview,
ADST
.
91. Reconstructed from the author’s notes, and
Israel Government Press Office Bulletin
, January 26, 1982.
92. Reconstructed from the Knesset minutes, May 3, 1982.
93. Based on the author’s conversations with Dr. Yosef Burg, and Begin’s remarks to the cabinet, June 5, 1982.
94.
Remarks of the President and Prime Minister Menachem Begin of Israel Following Their Meeting
, June 21, 1982, The Public Papers of President Ronald W. Reagan, Ronald Reagan Presidential Library. Reconstructed from the official transcript. www.reagan.utexas.edu.
95. Ronald Reagan,
An American Life: The Autobiograph
y
(New York: Simon and Schuster, 1990).
96. Reconstructed from the author’s notes based upon conversations with Menachem Begin; Lewis, interview,
ADST
.
97. “Cabinet Resolution on the Reagan Plan,” Jerusalem, 2 September 1982, document 68, in Meron Medzini, ed.,
Israel’s Foreign Relations: Selected Documents
, vol. 8, 1982–1984 (Jerusalem: Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs). www.mfa.gov.il.
98.
Israel Government Press Office Bulletin
, September 5, 1982.
99. “Senator Cranston Speaks Out,”
The Link
(Americans for Middle East Understanding) 15 (December 1982): 8–9.
100. Israel State Archives.
101. Based on an interview with Ambassador Moshe Sasson, September 5, 2001; and Jehan Sadat,
A Woman of Egypt
(London: Bloomsbury, 1987).
102. Copies of the letters are in the author’s possession; reconstructed from the author’s notes; interview with Yechiel Kadishai; referenced from Hart N. Hasten,
I Shall Not Die!
(Jerusalem: Gefen, 2003).
103. Reconstructed from the author’s notes; Lewis, interview,
ADST
.
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