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
Sasson,Moshe,574,662-663
Sassover,Reb Yisrael(pseudonym of Begin),13-16;14(photo)
Savoy Hotel,12
Schecter,Jerrold,278
Schindler,Alexander and interview with Menachem Begin,497-498
Schleider’s kosher caterers(Baltimore,Maryland),493
Schmidt,Helmut,543-545
Schneerson,Rabbi Menachem Mendel see Lubavitcher Rebbe
Schoenau transit camp,219-224
Scotland Yard,126,678
Scott,C.P.,514
Sea of Galilee,76,116
Sejera(base camp),72
self-restraint,policy of,8
Settlement freeze,630
Settlements,17,28,154,248,278,287,301,423,424,431,434,480-491,484,507-508,549,574,589,630
Shah of Iran,459,517
Sharett,Moshe,364
Sharm el-Sheikh,590
Sharon,Ariel,386,569,571,584,602(photo),684;attending Sadat’s funeral(photo),575;exchange with Anwar Sadat,461;on “indirect responsibility” for Sabra and Shatila,646;on memorandum of understanding with the United States,569,571-572;on situation in Lebanon,599,600,603,605,608,
Shin Bet,518
Shivat Zion,68
Shultz,George,630
Shuttle Diplomacy,277-278
Shylock,473,475(photo of letter)
Sidon,615,619
Silver,Eric,233
Simcha,Reb,14-16
Simpson,Wallis,688
Sinai Ⅱ,see Sinai interim agreement(1975)Sinai interim agreement(1975),183,259,283,286,289,290,295,299,302,321,323,493
Sinai Peninsula,161,210,225
Sinai Support Mission,290
Sir Charles,517-519
Sir Humphrey(Queen Elizabeth’s secretary),684
Sisco,Joe,191,278,280
Six-Day War(1967),84,101,144(photo),163(photo),166,174,176,182,204,210,222,225,227,248,255,259,263,297,303,308,314,328,341,350
Socialist International,202,253-254
Solidarity movement(Poland),579
Soloveitchik,Joseph B.(also known as Yosef Ber),406,661
Soviet Jewry,220,516
Soviet-Syrian MIG25,636
Soviet-Syrian MIGS,616,636
Srulik(participant in Bible Study Circle),397
St.Julian’s Way,136-137
Stalinism,97,240,392
“Star Spangled Banner,” 410
State banquet(White House),273
Steel,David,512
Stone,Richard,430,431
Storrs,Ronald,202
Straits of Tiran,135,163(photograph),590;see also Tiran Straits
Strangeways(neighborhood where Yehuda Avner was born),6
Suez Canal,50,199,225,233,234-235,248,252,297,321,461
Suez War 1956,97,174,501
Sukkot,236,239-240
Summer White House(Truman),118
Swanson,Gloria,430
Sydney Symphony Orchestra,53
Syria et Palestina,418
T
Tchaikovsky,524
Teitelbaum,Rabbi Yoel,497
Tel Aviv,4,12,13,14,19,21,45,50,53,64,66,69,70,71,82,93,127,139,148,150,151,153,154,156,212,303,304,308,311,332,346,365,382,389,421,487,504,514,535,539,587,624,629,634,658
Temple Mount,10,158,159,446,464
Templeton Prize,511
“Termination of the state of belligerency,” 277
Thatcher,Denis,549,697,698,701
Thatcher,Margaret,502(photo),548,549,556,689 698(photo);as host to Prime Minister Begin,503-509;Prime Minister Begin’s reaction to,519-520;as host to Yehuda Avner,697-703
There’s a song in the air,56
Thorne,Thorne,21-23
Throne Room,547,687
Time,350,557,703
Times(London),350
Tiran Straits,140
Tisha b’Av,406,446
Tomb of the Unknown Soldier,663
Tony(from Detroit),543-545
Tower of Babel,609
Toynbee,Arnold,169
Trash,Merry,430,431,433,434
Treaty Room(White House),435
Truman,Bess,118
Truman,Harry S.,97,112,411;meeting with Yehuda Avner,115-122
Twain,Mark,417-418
Tzedek,Tzemach,92
U
U.S.-Israel joint statement(13 July 1981),561,562(text),562(photo of Begin’s draft)
UN partition resolution,3,41,43(photo),42(photo of Yehuda Avner’s diary on that day),69,120,351
UN Resolution 242,101,182,226,228,244,350,355,412,425-427,432,480,481
UN Resolution 338,425-427
UN Security Council,157,159,166,244,396,556,557,581
United Jewish Appeal,264,328,390,466,467,533,541
United Nations,50,62,69,120,135,142,202,282,296,353,396,417,432,446,458,481,498,531-532,539,581,606,609,610
United Nations General Assembly,41;Menachem Begin’s speech before the,608-609
United Resistance Command,3,17-18
United States Congress,287,288,289,299,372,562,673
Urbach,Ephraim,396,397,398
US State Department,121,187,191,192,194,322,323,404,561
V
Vale of Tears,235,236
Valeriani,Richard,278,279
Vance,Cyrus,387,413,415,417,423,426,480,488-489,494-496
Vance,Grace,434
Vatican,158,542
Vietcong,327
Vietnam War,177,187,169,194-195,207,208,235,585
Vietnam,140,170,173,195,196,226,278,327
Village Voice,405
Von Wechmar,Baron Rüdiger,549
Von Weizacker,Freifrau,547,548,550
Von Weizacker,Richard,547,548,550
W
Waldheim,Kurt,415(photograph)
Waldorf Astoria,328,405,496,497
Walfish,Asher,319-320,322
Walpole,Robert,131
Walters,Barbara,274,276
“Wandering Jew,” 127
Wannsee Conference,545
War of Attrition,199,225-226,228
War of Independence,7-29,19(photo),38-46,47(photo),49-60,58(photo),61-72,136,154,159,435
Warsaw Ghetto Uprising,406
Warsaw University,319,341
Washington Heights,267
Washington Hilton,486,487,489,490
Washington Post,187,278
Wasserman,Chaim,23
Watergate scandal,243,262,263,264,270,272
Wehrmacht,544,549,688
Weinberger,Caspar,557-559,568-572,582,621,623;letter from Menachem Begin,558;signing memorandum of understanding,572
Weiss,Yaakov,21,23,24
Weizman,Ezer,365,386,435,482,488,523
Weizmann,Chaim,8,111,419,514;meeting with Harry S.Truman,120-122
West Bank,158,161,204,287,300,301,350-351,387,423-425,434,438-439,451,474,496,523,525,528,630,631,636,637;discussion about between Menachem Begin,Jimmy Carter,Moshe Dayan,and Zbigniew Brzezinski,476-481
Western Wall,9,10,154,158,159,160,161,162
White House Press Office,427
White House Protocol Office,167
Whitehall,20,25,50,130,507
Wilde,Oscar,107
Wilson,Harold,125,126,129,131-132,512
Wilson,Woodrow,617
Windsor Castle,684
Wingate,Orde,514
Wolfe(volunteer at Kibbutz Lavi),77,84
Wolfson,Isaac,366,367,369
World Moslem Congress,511
Y
Yaacobi,Gad,304
Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial,464,699
Yadin,Yigael,538
Yaffe,Adi,109,128,131,132,149,166;as Yehuda Avner’s contact at the Foreign Ministry,104
Yamit,590
Yavin,Chaim,345
Yavniel Valley,76
Yehuda and Samaria,287,300;see also West Bank
Yemin Moshe,137,139
Yeshiva University,406
YMCA,52,55
Yom Kippur,9,10,11,209,233,234,239,250,251,252,644
Yom Kippur War,199,224,225-256,237(photo),238(photo),261,263,265,266,270,271,278,282,296,297,310,321,356,461,501,579,584,676;Egyptian surface-to-air missiles,225-256;Golda Meir’s visit to the troops during,236-241;Knesset debate on,250-254;telephone conversation between Nixon and Kissinger about,243-247
Young,David,512,513
Z
Zabush,644
Zacks,Gordon(Gordie),467-468,470
Zadok,Chaim,57,59,64,66
Zion Square,57,59,64,66
Zuckerman,Pinchas,494
Zyklon-B gas,559