Jerusalem: The Biography (143 page)

Tyropaean Valley,
35n

Ubadah ibn al-Samit,
177n

Ubayd Allah (al-Mahdi),
194

Uganda,
381–2
,
410
,
453

Uhuh, Battle of,
177

Ukraine,
50n
,
301–3
,
359n
,
444
,
486n

Umayyad dynasty,
178–87

Union of Zionist-Revisionists,
430

United Arab Command,
491

United Arab Republic (UAR),
490

United Nations,
48n
,
466–7
,
468–71
,
478
,
483
,
492
,
495–6
,
514
,
519

United Resistance Command,
462
,
465

United States of America

American Civil War,
347n

American Constitution,
336

American Jews,
428
,
500

early colonists,
300–2

and Jewish immigration,
370

and Six Day War,
494
,
496

and Suez crisis,
490

and state of Israel,
467

Unur, Atabeg of Damascus,
224
,
229
,
233
,
235

Ur,
16
,
45n

Urban II, Pope,
208

Uriah the Hittite,
23
,
363

US Zionist Federation,
428

Usamah bin Munqidh, xxv,
223–5
,
229–31
,
233
,
237
,
239
,
241
,
252

Ustinov, Baron Plato von,
366

Vagabond Café,
444

Valley of Hinnom,
40
,
185n

Valley of Jehoshaphat,
227

Vanderbilt, Consuelo,
389

Varus, Publius Quinctilius,
93

Venice,
207n

Verdun,
408
,
416

Versailles peace conference,
427–8

Vespasian, Emperor,
1–2
,
5
,
124–6
,
129
,
131–2

Vester, Frederick,
485

Via Dolorosa,
106n
,
135n
,
286
,
300
,
344n
,
356
,
497

Victoria, Queen,
324
,
332
,
341
,
350
,
354
,
368
,
454n

Vienna,
292
,
304
,
352
,
373
,
376
,
398

Villiers, Captain Hyde,
389n

Vilna,
350n
,
359n
,
501

Vincent, Père,
390

Virgin Mary,
see
Mary, mother of Jesus

Virgin’s Tomb,
see
Church of Our Lady of Jehoshaphat

Vitruvius,
85n

Volney, Constantin,
310–11

von Papen, Franz,
396
,
409
,
416
,
439n

Wagner, Richard,
423

Wahab, Muhammad ibn Abdul,
327n

Wahabis,
281
,
327
,
432

al-Wahrani,
252–3

Walid I, Caliph,
184
,
186

Walter, Hubert,
263

Waqfs
,
280n
,
364n
,
421
,
498
,
508

Ward, Hon. Cyril,
389n

warfare, laws of,
213n

Warren, Captain Charles,
21n
,
355–6

Warren’s Gate,
186

Waterloo, Battle of,
323

Watson, Brigadier C. F.,
418

Wauchope, Sir Arthur,
439–40
,
450

Wavell, Sir Archibald, 1st Earl,
451

Wazzah,
421

Weidenfeld, George, Baron,
482
,
487

Weizmann, Chaim, President, xxv,
351n
,
374
,
409–12
,
414–15
,
421
,
423–31
,
435
,
444–6
,
450
,
453
,
458
,
478

and Buraq Uprising,
438–9

and El Alamein,
457

and Israeli presidency,
476
,
480

and Nabi Musa riots,
429–30

and Orde Wingate,
450–1

Weizmann Institute of Science,
481

Well of Souls,
27n

West Bank,
478
,
481–2
,
488
,
491
,
502

and Intifada,
505–6
,
509

Western Wall,
9
,
24n
,
71
,
120n
,
135n
,
151n
,
175
,
264
,
286
,
300
,
355
,
357
,
379
,
408
,
452
,
504

and Buraq Uprising,
436–8

daily rituals,
518–19
,
523

as ha-Kotel,
295
,
437
,
497
,
516

and Jewish access,
480
,
482
,
502
,
513
,
516

purchase attempts,
357
,
374
,
398n
,
421
,
437

and
shofar
ban,
437
,
459

and Six Day War,
497–8

tunnel constructions,
509

Westminster, Jerusalem Chamber,
285