Where Jerusalem appears
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… Jacob did still insist on helping financially, which allowed my father to enroll at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. He did well in his studies — literature, history and philosophy — but abandoned them after two years. His explanation f...
…reparations for a possible military operation. So when I got a call asking me to report to Shamir’s office in Jerusalem, I assumed he wanted to talk about Iraq. “How are things?” he asked. But when I began by filling him in on the plans to...
…e, I would be in charge of one of Israel’s three regional military commands, and we were based on the edge of Jerusalem, with security responsibility for the West Bank. This was my first direct exposure to the combustible mix of restive Pal...
ancient lands of Judaea and Samaria: the West Bank. And the reunited capital city of Jerusalem. Suddenly, we had a sense that we could breathe. Wander, explore. Few of my classmates were religiously observant. But none of us could help feel...
…our part on the battlefields of the Six-Day War — in the Sinai, on the Golan, in the bitter battle to capture Jerusalem, or amid the olive-green hills and valleys of the West Bank — we had to accept that, at most, we’d been freelance suppor...
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…terror campaign had ended only when the Shin Bet caught the cell placing explosives under Arab-owned buses in Jerusalem. Hopeful of preventing misunderstandings, and ideally building a relationship of trust, I visited many of the settlement...
who I enjoy meeting every time I visit Natan and his wife in their home in Jerusalem. There
… 24/08/2011 -- Until 1923, Palestine was part of the Ottoman Empire. In December 1917, British troops entered Jerusalem and ended 400 years of Ottoman rule. In 1922, the League of Nations issued the Mandate of Palestine which authorized the...
/ BARAK / 60 would agree to make them part of a Palestinian state. The second principle was that “Jerusalem will remain united.” It would not be cut into Jewish and Arab halves as had happened between 1948 and 1967. That, I knew, might prov...
…straight at Arafat from the UN podium, I said: “We are at the Rubicon, and neither of us can cross it alone.” Jerusalem, “the eternal capital of Israel,” was calling out for a “peace of honor, of courage and of brotherhood” — a peace recogn...
…straight at Arafat from the UN podium, I said: “We are at the Rubicon, and neither of us can cross it alone.” Jerusalem, “the eternal capital of Israel,” was calling out for a “peace of honor, of courage and of brotherhood” — a peace recogn...
…ump, many, many innocent people who are now walking the streets of Gaza and Ramallah and Hebron, Tel Aviv and Jerusalem, will die.” Arafat again just nodded, leaving me, and the President, unsure whether anything I’d said had struck home. T...
…st turned 26 years old. I was finishing my studies in math, physics and economics at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, and had joined my Sayeret Matkal comrades the night before the assault. It was a huge operation: ten battalions, includ...
/ BARAK/ 71 they were willing to consider full Palestinian sovereignty over two Arab neighborhoods in East Jerusalem, and even some form of Palestinian authority and control in the Christian and Muslim quarters inside the walls of the Old C...
… Palestinian campaign of violence was getting worse. An Islamic Jihad car bomb near Mahaneh Yehudah market in Jerusalem injured nearly a dozen people and left two dead. Hamas blew up a school bus in one of the Gaza settlements, killing two...
after Talansky gave evidence in Jerusalem’s District Court. Though he
steady-handed commander of the Jerusalem police
and neither of us can cross it alone.” Jerusalem
time away from Jerusalem or Tel Aviv. Some of my oldest army