Read The Prime Ministers: An Intimate Narrative of Israeli Leadership Online
Authors: Yehuda Avner
Tags: #History, #Non-Fiction, #Biography, #Politics
Deborah (Prophet), 107, 209
Deeds, Wyndham, 514
Deir Yassin, 89–90, 93–96, 95 (map)
Department of International Cooperation, 107
Desert Storm, 563, 701
Détente, 278
Diana, Princess, 510, 549; host of reception for Shimon Peres, 685–688
Dimona Nuclear project, 454
Dinitz, Simcha, 242, 280, 335
Diplomatic Protection Squad (England), 126
Disraeli, Benjamin, 373
Dorchester Hotel (London), 603
Dowager Empress of Persia, 17
Drancy concentration camp, 53
Dugdale, Blance (Baffy), 514
Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, 688
Duke of Norfolk, 511–512
Duke of Wellington, 679
E
early warning stations in Sinai, 289, 290
Eaton Square, London, 697
Eban, Abba, 110–111, 110 (photo), 142–143, 166, 180, 182, 188, 191, 201, 229, 251, 333, 421
Ecclesiastes, 661
Eddie, Nelson, 56
Egyptian Air Force, 153
Egyptian Third Army, 249, 321
1812 Overture
, 524
Eilat, 686, 689; blockade of, 101, 135, 138, 140, 141, 143, 147, 150
Ein Karem, 61, 63, 65, 95
Einstein, Albert, 116, 306
Eisenhower, David, 97, 557
Eitan, Raphael (Raful), 523–526
El Al, 126, 219, 329, 401, 447, 487, 600, 609; and Knesset debate over Shabbat violation, 595–599
El Arish, 536; and meeting of disabled war veterans, 499–501, 591
Elazar, David (Dado), 236
Eliot, T.S., 685
El-Kaddafi, Muammar, 214
Elokei Yisrael
, 498, 559
Eshkol, Levi, 84, 97, 101, 109–110, 111, 124 (photo), 139, 140, 141; and pre-Six-Day War tensions, 141–142; 144 (photo); and the National Water Carrier, 116; Begin’s praise of, 181–182; broadcast to the nation, 149; death of, 180; letter to President Truman, 115; meeting with Harold Wilson, 125–126, 131–133; meeting with Menachem Begin, 145–149; on capturing the Old City in Jerusalem, 153–162, 163–164 (photos); meeting with President Johnson in Texas, 165–178, 164 (photo); speech before Joint Israel Appeal, 127–129
Eshkol, Miriam, 166, 167, 169, 170
Ethiopia, 413, 414, 415, 689
Ethiopian Jews, 342, 414
Eton, 506
Etzion Bloc, 90
European Union, 544
Evelina de Rothschild School, 49
Evening Standard
, 519
Executive Office Building, 193
F
F
-15 aircraft, 585
F
-16 aircraft, 299, 585
F
-4 Phantom Jets, 166, 172
Face the Nation
, 497
Fahd, Prince, 538, 539
Fahmi, Ismail, 288, 290
Faisal, Emir, 419
Falklands, 579, 702
Fallaci, Oriana, 207–216; interview with Golda Meir, 208–216, 255, 676
Fatahland, 599
Fayez, 204–205
Finegold, Abie, 489–490
Feinstein, Meir, 659, 693
Feinstein, Rabbi Moshe, 497
Fez conference, 580
Fifth Avenue Synagogue, 166
“Final Solution,” 7, 545
Finchley, London, 505, 690
Fisch, Harel, 397, 398
Fisher, Max, 557–560, 561, 563
Fontainebleau Hotel (Miami, Florida), 328
Ford, Barbara, 276–277, 292
Ford, Gerald, 272, 279, 280, 286, 290, 291, 319, 320, 321, 387, 411, 433, 568; letter to Menachem Begin, 298–299; message to Rabin, 280–281; open letter concerning support for Israel, 288; state dinner, 272–277; talk with Anwar Sadat, 289–290, 291–293; talks with Rabin, 272
Ford, Henry Jr., 697
Foreign Press Bureau, 202, 207, 233
Foreign Service, Inspector General of, 697
Fort, Willie, 262, 264, 266–270, 283; and psychological profile of Henry Kissinger, 268–270
“Framework for the Peacemaking Process, The,” 403, 425, 427, 436–437, 439; top secret section of, 438
Fraser, Antonia, 685, 687
Free Polish Forces in Exile, 341, 382, 392
Freisler, Judge, 545
Freuka, as military secretary to Menachem Begin, 345, 355, 357, 358, 365, 366, 388, 415, 420, 447, 488, 522 (photo), 523, 524, 526, 527, 551, 552, 553, 554, 555, 573–574; as military secretary to Yitzhak Rabin, 303, 304, 305, 306, 307, 311, 312, 313, 332
Friends of the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, 111
From Destruction to Redemption
, 703
Furtwangler, Wilhel,
see
Fort, Willie
G
Galilee, 599, 605, 606, 607, 670, 715
Galilee, Yisrael, 251, 304, 306
Garbo, Greta, 434
gauleiters
, 688
Gaza, 161, 301, 307, 416, 423, 424, 425, 438, 439, 451, 474, 484, 496, 630, 631, 637, 707; discussion about between Menachem Begin, Jimmy Carter, Moshe Dayan, and Zbigniew Brzezinski, 476–481
Gemayel, Bashir, 629, 641, 642–643, 647
Geneva Conference, 282, 335, 424, 427, 433, 446, 458
Geneva Convention, 351, 507
George Washington High School, 267
Gevaryahu, Chaim, 398
“Ghetto mentality,” 35, 127
Gideon Bible, 488
Golan Heights, 76, 132, 154, 181, 210, 233, 237 (photo), 238 (photo), 248, 252, 299, 420, 438, 451, 452, 476; Golda Meir’s visit to, 235–241; Law of the, 579–588
Goldberg, Arthur and discussion with Yehuda Avner, 432–433, 435
Gordon Highlanders, 547
Gotsman, Mervyn, 577, 657
Grant, Ulysses, 435
Graziani, Yitzhak, 460
Great Depression, 119
Great Synagogue (Jerusalem), Menachem Begin’s visit to on Rosh Hashanah, 642–645
Great Synagogue (Moscow), Golda Meir’s visit to, 240
Green Line, 420, 421
Greenberg, Ivan, 7–8
Grey, Sir Edmond, 138
Gromyko, Andrei, 458
Gruner, Dov, 22
Guardian
, 136, 137, 233
Gur, General Mordechai, 307–308, 312–313, 460, 461
Gush Emunim
, 300
Gwertzman, Bernard, 278
H
Haaretz
, 18, 148, 331
Habib, Philip, 600, 628, 636, 672, 677
Hackett, Mr. (Commissioner of Prisons, Mandate Palestine), 21–24
hadar
, 358, 401, 403
Hadassah Hospital, 90, 534, 577, 652, 674
Hadrian, 418
Hagana, 3, 8, 17, 18, 40, 45, 46, 49, 50, 52, 58, 59, 69, 78, 79, 81, 94, 151, 259, 345, 384
Haig, Alexander, 556, 569, 570, 571, 581–583, 586, 605, 620, 524, 630
Hail to the Chief
, 429
Haile Selassie, Emperor of Ethiopia, 17
Haj Amin el-Husseini (Grand Mufti of Jerusalem), 89
Halle, General, 93
Halperin, Yisrael (pseudonym of Begin), 12
Hamishma
r
, 18
Hamorashti, Micha, 609
Hampton Court Palace, 509, 510
hamtana
, 152
Hapoel Hamizrachi – Religious Zionist Workers’ Party, 104
Hardwick, Herbert, 513
Harman, Abe, 70, 71
Harvard University, 122
Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, 412, 419, 426, 476, 477, 480, 621, 622, 624, 630, 632, 633, 636, 686
hashgocho
, 444–445
Hassidoff Quarter, 12–13
Hassouna, Abdul-Khalek, 87
Hasten, Hart, 658
Hasten, Simona, 658
“
Hatikva
,” 24, 35, 347, 410, 464, 542
Haviv, Avshalom, 21, 23, 24
Hazbani, The (River Jordan tributary), 132
Heathrow Airport, 126, 678
Hebrew University, 45, 70, 94, 115, 533
Hebron, 161, 424, 504, 535; cities named in the United States, 423
Hebron, 1929 pogrom in, 9–10
Heine, Heinrich, 569
Henry
VIII
, 510; Great Hall of, 510
herut
, 63
Herut – the Freedom Party, 77, 84, 341
Herzl, Theodor, 105, 346
Herzog, Chaim, 679, 681, 684–685
Herzog, Mrs., 684
Herzog, Yaakov, 141–142, 149, 399; influence on Yehuda Avner, 141; at President Johnson’s ranch, 167–169, 171
Hilary (from Cleveland), 543
Hildesheimer Rabbinical Seminary of Berlin, 660
Hilton Hotel (Jerusalem), 531
Hilton Hotel (Washington,
D.C
.), 489
Hiroshima, 555
Hitler, Adolf, 7, 9, 88, 89, 120, 146, 268, 300, 368, 508, 543, 544, 547, 627, 688
Hod, General Motti, 172, 177
Holocaust, 7, 28, 31, 36, 116, 138, 151, 263, 316, 376, 406, 422, 440, 464, 495, 498, 508, 520, 541, 543, 545, 546, 548, 551, 559, 611, 616, 627, 644, 655, 699
Holocaust Memorial Day, 541
Holocaust, American Jewish leadership during the, 116
Horn of Africa, 413, 414, 707
Horns of Hittin, 76
House of Windsor, 688
Houston Chronicle
, 136, 137
Howard, Michael, 513
Hula Valley, 132, 420, 579, 584
Humphrey, Hubert, 189, 320
“Hunting Season,” 3, 79, 700
Hyde Park, 679, 682
I
IDF
(Israel Defense Forces), 69, 150, 151, 158, 161, 180, 233, 248, 249, 252, 254, 255, 259, 261, 277, 282, 286, 297, 307, 310, 313, 341, 357, 377, 401, 409, 459, 464, 499, 515, 527, 529, 542, 590, 603, 604, 608, 614, 628, 629, 631, 636, 647, 656
IDF
General Staff, 149
Ilaniya, 72
Illustrated London News
, 698
Inbal Hotel, 137
Independence Day, 61–72
Innocents Abroad
, 417–418
INSM
(Israel’s National Security Map), 388, 420
Institute for Overseas Youth Leaders,
see
Machon
Institute of Strategic Affairs, 514
International Red Cross, 31, 62, 70
Irgun Zvei Leumi, 5, 7, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 15, 16, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 33, 34, 35, 39, 40, 44, 45, 46, 50, 52, 58, 59, 63, 66, 68, 69. 77, 78, 79, 81, 82, 89, 154, 189, 341, 354, 366, 368, 372, 382, 384, 416; and Deir Yassin, 93–96; and the King David Hotel bombing, 3, 17–18, 586