The Prime Ministers: An Intimate Narrative of Israeli Leadership (85 page)

Irish Republicans, 518

Iron Curtain, 94, 117, 494

“Iron Lady,” 506, 702

Isaiah, 490, 609, 610, 611, 638, 661,

Israel Air Force, 153, 172, 177, 342, 487, 555, 562, 654

Israel Bible Society, 398

Israel Bonds, 116, 187, 264, 328, 530 (photo), 653; campaign, 533

Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs, 97

Israel Museum, 156

Israel Prize, 397

Israel, United States’ de facto recognition of, 122

Israeli Embassy, 187, 219, 331, 459

Israeli-Egyptian Peace Treaty signing at White House, 490–496, 492 (photo)

Israeli Security Service, 126

Israel-Lebanon Peace Arrangement, 672

Issues and Answers
, 350

Ivri, David, 562

J

J.W.T.K.
(a Jew with trembling knees), 376

Jabotinsky, Ze’ev, 376–377, 401, 417

Jackson, Andrew, 118, 121

Jackson, Henry “Scoop,” 494–496, 586

Jakobovits, Immanuel, 595

Jacobson, Eddie, 118–119

Jaffa Gate, 45, 136

Jastrow, Marcus, 397

Javits, Jacob, 166

Jefferson, Thomas, 270, 566

jelly beans, 565, 583

Jenin, 528, 529

Jeremiah (Prophet), 107, 226, 247, 446, 611

Jerusalem Post
, 18, 319, 320, 359

Jerusalem, Jewish Quarter (Old City), 11, 51, 57, 58, 59, 157, 159, 160; siege of, 44, 47 (photo), 49, 51, 52, 53, 61, 70, 93, 94, 259

Jewish Agency Board of Governors, 557

Jewish Chronicle
, 7

Jewish Press
, 405

Jewish Quarter (Old City, Jerusalem), 11, 51, 57, 58, 59, 157, 159, 160

Jewish Terrorist Index
, 13

Johns Hopkins University, 264

Johnson, Lyndon Baines, 101, 138, 162, 164 (photo), 179, 277, 432, 568; and international action on blockade of Eilat, 140–142; as host to Prime Minister Levi Eshkol, 165–178

Joint Israel Appeal
see
United Jewish Israel Appeal

Jordan, Hamilton, 430, 431

Joseph, Keith, 513

Judah the Maccabee, 539

Judea and Samaria, 351, 355, 368, 419, 421, 425, 452, 481, 486, 507, 508, 636–637

July Plot, 544

K

Kaddum, 341, 342

Kadishai, Bambi, 382

Kadishai, Yechiel, 153, 154, 155, 156, 354, 355, 358, 363, 365, 366, 380 (photo), 381, 383 (photo), 388, 434, 441 (photo), 457, 545, 579, 583, 652, 654, 657, 664, 671, 674, 684, 692; at Begin’s funeral, 693; on first meeting Menachem Begin, 382, 384; handwritten note from Begin, 693

Kahan Commission, 342, 646–647, 646 (photo), 652

Kahan, Yitzhak, 646

Kahn, Dr. Inamullah, 511

Kalb, Bernard, 278

Katz, Shmuel, 416–419

Katz, Yaakov, 397

Katzir, Ephraim, 459, 462 (photo), 463 (photo), 464

Keating, Kenneth, 280

Kennedy Center, 433

Kennedy, Edward, 586

Kennedy, John F., 277, 432

Kennedy, Robert, 166

Keren Hayesod, 390

Khartoum summit, 101, 162

Khrushchev, Nikita, 97

Khubeiza weed, 51, 53, 56

Kibbutz Lavi, 74 (photo), 75–76, 84–85, 87, 97

Kibbutz Mishmar HaEmek, 656

Kiddush Hashem
, 498

King Abdullah
I
of Jordan, 17, 93, 637

King Alfonso
VIII
of Spain, 17

King Balak (Moabite), 395

King David, 65, 504, 532, 657

King David Hotel, 3, 52, 64, 136, 137, 262, 270, 278, 300, 373, 463 (photo), 464, 468, 515, 586, 652–653; bombing of, 17–18, 19 (photo)

King Edward
VIII
, 372, 688

King Faisel, 637

King George
II
, 17, 131, 382

King George
V
, 688

King Hussein, 97, 135, 153, 154, 157, 158, 621–622, 637, 686

Kinnock, Neil, 547

Kiryat Arba, 161

“Kissinger 14,” 278–279

Kissinger, Henry, 182, 183, 187, 188, 189, 208, 228, 249, 255, 259, 260 (photo), 262, 271, 286, 295, 296, 301, 318, 319, 320, 321, 322, 387, 412, 437, 47, 492, 512, 702; at State dinner, 277; conversation with Rabin, 193–194, 195; member of Ford’s Cabinet, 272; memoirs, 231; on Israel in Peace Treaty signing, 492–493; on Israel’s final borders, 299–300; psychological profile of, 268–270; talk with Ford and Sadat, 289–290, 291–293; talk with Nixon about Yom Kippur War, 243–247; talk with William Rodgers, 192; trip to Middle East, 277, 283; warning to Dinitz, 335

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 Sta
r
, 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 Hakeshe
r
, 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

MI
6, 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)