Golda (68 page)

Belorussia, 14

Ben-Aharon, Yitzhak, 243

Ben-Gurion, David “BG,” 3–6, 238,

271, 295

Abdullah and, 143 assassination attempt on, 284 break with Rafi over Labor

reunification of 1968 and, 227 coalition governments and, 178 early years in Palestine and
yishuv

politics, 38, 52–54, 63–66, 72,

76–77, 80

on Golda, 384

Golda as ambassador to Soviet Union and, 149, 151, 155, 161

Golda as foreign minister for, 181–83, 185–87, 196–98,

203,205

Golda as labor minister for, 174 Golda as mayor of Tel Aviv attempt

and, 179

Jewish immigration and dream of Jewish homeland pre–WW II and, 85–90, 93–95, 101, 103

Jewish immigration and dream of Jewish homeland, post–WW II, 109, 111–12, 114, 116–17,

119–23

nuclear program and, 197–99 partition and establishment of Israel

and, 137–41, 144–47, 164, 166

power struggle vs. Golda and her resignation from cabinet, 207–17

resignation of, 232–33 romantic affairs of, 67 Six-Day War and, 220

Suez Canal and, 187–89, 192 West Germany and, 193–96

Benny, Jack, 5

Ben Zvi, Yitzhak, 38 Bergman, Ingrid, 6

Berl Katznelson
(ship), 110 Bernstein, Leonard, 3

Bessarabetz
(newspaper), 13

Bessarabia, 14, 156

Bethlehem, 87, 138, 294

Bevin, Ernest, 106–10, 112, 115, 120,

141

Bhutto, Benazir, 4

Bialik, Chaim (poet), 184 Bialin, Uri, 154

Big Powers, Arab-Israeli peace talks and, 2, 259–62.
See also
specific powers

Bir’im, civil disobedience in, 249–50 Black Panthers, 250–55

Black Sabbath, 116–17

Black September terrorists, 283–87 Black Star Lines, 200

Blum, Leon, 66

Bolshevik-Menshevik split, 30 Bonn embassy attacks, 284
Boston Globe
, 184

Botsio, Kojo, 200

Bourges-Manoury, Maurice, 186, 188

Bourguiba, Habib, 341

Brandt, Willy, 283, 285, 309, 349, 379

Brazil, 184

Brezhnev, Leonid, 334
Briha
(escape), 111 Britain, 19, 71, 204

Arab-Israeli peace talks and, 259–60, 263

Balfour Declaration and, 39–40, 76 Cyprus detention centers and, 130 federalized state proposal of, 120 Golda and, during WW II, 97–100,

102–3

Jerusalem and, 144

Jewish immigration restrictions by, and Nazi Germany, 89–90

Palestine borders and, 288 Parliament, 87

Six-Day War and, 219 Soviet Union and, 150–51 Suez Canal and, 187–90 Transjordan and, 126

UN decision on Palestine and, 123, 128

UN partition and, 131

War Economic Advisory Council, 97

British army, 79, 95–96, 101, 106, 111 Sixth Airborne Unit, 110

British Central Intelligence Division, 110

British cooperative societies, 66 British Foreign Office, 76, 86 British House of Commons, 106 British Labour Party, 77, 93, 106–7,

123

British Mandate, 41, 46, 79, 91, 93

expiration of, 144–46

Jewish refugees and homeland issue, and WW II, 92, 96–111

Jewish resistance vs., 114–19

last days of, 128–34, 139–40, 143

martial law of 1947 and, 128 British Officers’ Club attacks, 129 Brooke, Edward, 276

Bukovina, 156

Bulganin, Nikolai, 189

Bulgarian Jews, 169 Bull, Gen. Odd, 219

Bund (General Jewish Labor Union of Lithuania, Poland, and Russia), 19

Byron, Lord George Gordon, 33

Calley, William, 10

Cameroon, 202, 277

Carter, Jimmy, 371, 373

Casablanca Conference (1961), 204,

205

Catherine the Great, tsarina of Russia, 14

Ceaus¸escu, Nicolai, 277–78 Central African Republic, 203 Central Intelligence Agency (CIA),

267, 315, 329

Chad, 205

Chamberlain, Neville, 88, 93 Charter of Unity, 226 Chekhov, Anton, 34

Chicago 8, 10

China, General, 201

Chopin Express
kidnappings, 314 Choral Synagogue (Moscow),

158–61

Church, Frank, 240

Churchill, Winston, 106, 136, 373

Circular No. 4 (Feb. 1933), 71 Citizens’ Rights Movement (CRM),

362

civil disobedience, 249–40

civil rights movement, Israeli, 246 Clements, William, 330

Clinton, Bill, 7

Clinton, Hillary, 4

Cold War, 151, 199, 276

Columbus, Christopher, 9 Committee on Disadvantaged Youth,

313

Compulsory Service for Women Act (1953), 178

concentration camps, 94, 101–6.
See also
Holocaust

doctors, 194

survivors, 113–14, 163 Conference of Independent African

States (1963), 205

Congo, 202

Copenhagen tourism office attacks, 284

Corriere della Sera
(newspaper), 114 Council of Europe, 314

Council of Federations and Welfare Funds, 135–37

counterterrorism, 287

Coupland, Reginald, 86–87

Cox, Archibald, 341

Crimea, 14

Cunningham, Sir Alan, 116 Cushing, Cardinal Richard, 264

Cyprus internment camp, 120–21, 130,

148, 164, 169

Czechoslovakia, 89–90, 151, 269,

380–81

Dacko, David, 203

Dahomey, 202

Danin, Ezra, 128, 142–43

Davar
(Labor Party paper), 291–92 David, King (of ancient Israel), 56 Dawson’s Field (1970), 302–3

Dayan, Moshe, 9, 143, 181–82, 186,

188–90, 199, 208–11, 214,

221–27, 229–34, 237, 249,

271–73, 276, 293–94, 305,

311–12, 358

occupied territories and, 296–300, 305, 351, 353, 374

Yom Kippur War and, 314–27, 330–31, 352–53, 361–66, 377

Dead Sea, 295

Dead Sea Works, 305 Declaration of Independence, 52,

143–46, 148

Declaration of Statehood Ceremony, 145–46

Degania Bet, 52

de Gaulle, Charles, 184, 262

Der Emes (Yiddish publishing house, Soviet Union), 161

Dimona nuclear program, 197–99, 377

Dinitz, Simcha, 183, 238–39, 271, 318,

328–30, 333, 335, 378

Dole, Bob, 276

Dreyfus, Alfred, 19

Dubinsky, David, 166 Dulles, John Foster, 192

D’var HaPoalot
(Women Workers’ Council magazine), 94

Eastern European Jews in Milwaukee, 24–25

Palestine and, 77 WW I and, 35

Eban, Abba, 169, 185–86, 192, 196–97,

199, 209, 219–20, 226, 269, 271,

298, 302, 305, 318, 334, 354–58,

362

economic boom of 1969–73, 241–46

Eden, Anthony, 188

Egypt, 207, 304

Africa and, 204–5

bombings of in 1954, 210–11 German arms aid to, 194

partition and war and, 132, 138, 141,

145, 147, 151, 155

peace talks and, 258, 262–63,

265–67, 270–76, 278–82, 289,

293, 355–56, 358–60

rapprochement with, and Sadat visit, 371–72, 375–79

Six-Day War and, 218–24, 284

Soviet arms aid to, 265–67, 273 Suez Canal nationalized by, and

Israeli seizure of Sinai and Gaza, 187–93, 200

Third Army, 333, 335–36, 339–40,

342–46, 351, 357

War of Attrition and, 236, 257–58,

265

Yom Kippur War and, 313–23, 326,

328–29, 331–37

Yom Kippur War cease-fire and peace negotiations and, 333–36, 339–51

Egyptian Jews, 210

Ehrenburg, Ilya, 159

Eichmann, Adolf, 184

Eisenhower, Dwight D., 6, 189, 191,

207, 220

Elazar, David “Dado,” 312, 315–20,

322–23, 325–26, 328, 331,

334–35, 364

elections, 287

of 1948, 178

of 1951, 169

of 1959 and power struggle over the Mishap, 196, 208, 210,

213–14

of 1965, 216–17

of 1969, 230, 261

of 1973, 333, 350–56

Eliav, Arye “Lyova,” 280–81, 290–93,

299–300

Elon, Amos, 312

Emek, 70, 72

Eshkol, Levi, 6, 52, 63, 177, 198, 209,

212, 214–26, 229–33, 236–37,

240, 263, 271, 290–91, 293, 295,

301–2, 366, 372

Eshkol, Miriam, 209, 218, 231–32,

240

Ethiopia, 202

Etzel.
See
Irgun Zvi Leumi Etzion Bloc, 295

Europe

Arab oil embargo, 338–39 displaced person camps, 164, 169 embargo on weapons to Israel, 328 terrorism and, 283–87, 314–15 Yom Kippur War and, 331 Zionism and, 69–70

European Common Market, 186

Europeo, L’
(magazine), 287

Evian-les-Bains conference (1938),

90–94

Eynikayt
(Yiddish newspaper in Soviet Union), 161

Face the Nation
, 2 Fahmy, Ismail, 339

Faisal ibn Abdelaziz Al Saud, king of Saudi Arabia, 258

Fallaci, Oriana, 55

Fede
(ship), 113–14

feminism, 7, 82, 98, 247–48

Fifth Zionist Congress (1901), 49

First Aliyah, 70

First Temple, 324

Fishman-Maimon, Rabbi Judah, 116 Ford, Gerald, 373

Forsythe Saga, The
(TV show), 244

Fortune
, 3

Fourth Aliyah, 61

Four Wise Men (African peace initiative), 276–77

France

Arab-Israeli peace talks and, 259, 260, 262

arms embargo against Israel, 310 Jewish refugees and, 91–92 nuclear program and, 198

Suez and, 186–90, 192 WW II and, 101

France, Anatole, 34

French Guiana, 196, 377 French West Africa, 200
Funny Girl
(movie), 268

Gahal party, 222

Galilee, 87, 131, 151, 155, 323

Galili, Yisrael, 217, 232, 298–300, 314,

316, 318, 324–25, 352, 376–77

Gamasy, Muhammad al-Ghani al-, 346–47, 349, 357

Gandhi, Indira, 234

Gandhi, Mahatma, 119

Gaza Strip, 8, 65, 182 Eliav survey of, 290

Jewish settlements in, 299 Jordan plan for elections in, 301 occupation of, 229, 274, 288–90,

293–95, 297, 351, 353

Six-Day War and capture of, 218–19, 223–24

Suez War of 1956 and, 188–93

Gazit, Mordechai, 377

Genghis Khan, 9

German-Jewish Americans, 25, 41,

134

Germany, pre–WW I, 19, 35.
See also
Nazi Germany; West Germany

Gestapo, 194

Ghana, 200, 204, 206

Ghana Industrial Development Corporation, 200

Gibson, Bill, 374

Gidi pass, 323

Gogol, Nikolai, 34 Golan Heights

Jewish settlements in, 299 occupation of, 221, 223–24, 229,

274–75, 289, 295, 351, 367

Yom Kippur War and, 313, 317–18,

321–23, 326, 330–31

Golda’s Balcony
(one-woman show), 6–7, 374–75

Goldberg, Arthur, 345 Goldie Meyerson Clubs, 71 Goldman, Emma, 8, 31

Goldman, Ralph, 168

Goldmann, Nahum, 278–80

Goodman, Fanny, 69

Goodman, Jacob, 69

Goodman, Judy, 73 Gordon, Aharon David, 31 Gorenberg, Gershom, 293

Gort, Lord, 106

Gowon, Yakubu, 277

Graham, Billy, 3

Graham, Katherine, 240

Grand Council of African Leaders of French West Africa, 200

Greater Syria, 126

Gromyko, Andrei, 150, 198

Grossman, Vasily, 161

Guatemala, 150

Guinea, 204

Gush bloc, 213, 217

Ha’aretz
, 222, 234, 324, 326, 352, 361,

377

Habash, George, 284

HaCohen, David, 233

Hadassah, 70

Haganah, 65, 94, 97, 100–101, 103,

108–10, 116, 119, 132, 134,

137–40, 144, 290

Hague embassy attacks, 284

Haifa, 97, 101, 139–40, 144, 151, 173

Haig, Alexander, 329, 345

Halter, Marek, 280–82, 379

halutzim
, 48

Hammarskjöld, Dag, 202, 218
Hapoel Hatzair
(newspaper), 66 Hapoel Hatzair party, 65 Harel, Isser, 194, 198, 213

Harmon, Abraham, 225–26

Harmon, Zena, 206

Harriman, Averell, 3

Hasdai, Yaakov, 383

“Hatikvah” (national anthem), 145

Hatzofeh
(Orthodox newspaper), 117

havlaga
(self-restraint policy), 108 Hazan, Yaakov, 258

Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society, 24 Hebrew labor campaign, 81–82 Hebrew language, revival of, 37, 48,

53, 63, 113, 154

Hebrew University, 71, 202

Hebron, 8, 294

Arab training bases in, 138 Jewish settlers in, 295–96 massacre of 1929, 65, 100

Tomb of the Patriarchs and, 293 Hefer, Haim, 250

Hegel, Georg Wilhelm, 30–31 Henderson, Loy, 139

Herbert, Dr. Emmanuel, 301 Herlitz, Esther, 183, 191, 197 Herod, king of Judea, 324

Hersh, Seymour, 327

Herut party, 220

Herzl, Theodor, 19, 24, 145, 170

Herzog, Chaim, 301, 373

Hillel, Shlomo, 202

Hirohito, emperor of Japan, 184 Histadrut (General Federation of

Laborers), 57–59, 165, 171, 209,

236, 254

Ben-Gurion heads, 52, 54 Golda as emissary to U.S. from,

63–67, 69–73

Golda’s rise to power in, 76–82 Jewish homeland and immigration

fight, post–WW II, 107, 109,

111–12, 119

labor strife of 1969–73 and, 242–43,

246

partition and, 131, 148

Political Department, 97, 99

WW II and, 89, 102

Va’ad HaPoel executive committee, 76–79, 82, 98, 102, 118, 247

Workers’ Committee, 107 Histadrut conference (Second, Haifa,

1923), 54

Hitler, Adolf, 85, 86, 91–93, 95, 107,

123, 340, 380

Holocaust, 10, 69, 92–93, 101–11, 120,

184, 268, 287, 340, 380

Holocaust survivors, 106–11, 120, 193,

195, 290–91

Holon, 145

housing projects, 164–66, 171–73,

176

Hula Valley, 326

Humphrey, Hubert, 3, 345

Hungary, 103

Hussein bin Talal, king of Jordan, 222, 300–307, 309, 313–14, 379

Husseini, Haj Amin al- (mufti of Jerusalem), 86–88, 93, 96, 126,