Where Nava appears
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…had a bedroom, two large sitting rooms and a terrace. I took it as a good omen that it was the same one where Nava and I had stayed during our visit with the President Clinton and Hillary right after I’d become Prime Minister. With just eig...
d to phone them, whatever happened. “We did it,” I told my father, who said mazaltov with a depth of feeling which had become rare as his health began to fail. My mother had always been a bit conflicted about my going into politics, despite...
x Jew and settlement activist named Yigal Amir. Standing there with Nava, I felt even more strongly what I’d told Leah by phone from New York after hearing Yitzhak was dead: his murder would leave a huge hole – in me, in all Israelis. He wa...
…hange anything. But I still felt torn up inside thinking about it. After we landed at Ben-Gurion, I went with Nava to the Rabins’ apartment in Ramat Aviv. There were hundreds of people outside, and nearly a hundred crowded inside the flat....
…oing on back home, but was more focused on preparing my speech for the Yad Vashem event. “Ehud, Ehud!” It was Nava, her voice barely understandable through the sobs. “Rabin has been shot!” * * * 278 Danny Yatom called me a couple of minutes...
…her officers tended to the wounded, rushed away by helicopter. Doron and I were having dinner in Beijing when Nava phoned. She’d just seen the newspaper story, and read it to me. I’d never been angrier. As best I could work out, it had been...
on seemed not to faze him. Hours into the invasion, he moved an armored force toward Kuwait’s border with Saudi Arabia, a key US regional ally, immediately prompting the President George Bush’s administration to go beyond mere verbal condem...
…ands of frontline command rested not just on my shoulders, but my family’s. We had moved house again early in Nava’s pregnancy, to the suburb of Ra’anana, about 10 miles north of Tel Aviv and a few miles in from the coast. We bought one of...
…ands of frontline command rested not just on my shoulders, but my family’s. We had moved house again early in Nava’s pregnancy, to the suburb of Ra’anana, about 10 miles north of Tel Aviv and a few miles in from the coast. We bought one of...
…aid I knew how hard it would be, but that she needed to make sure Bruria heard the news from a friend. Later, Nava told me she’d waited until daybreak, not wanting to make things worse by waking her. Then, she went downstairs. She told Brur...
… my own battalion. Some of the dead in other units were close friends. I felt exhausted. I also realized that Nava, thousands of miles away in Palo Alto, and my parents on the kibbutz could still not be
… I figured that whoever was making the decision had come to the same conclusion. I was on a weekend away with Nava and Michal in the Red Sea resort of Eilat when things suddenly began to move. At around noon on Saturday, I got a call from T...
t was from my mother-in-law, to tell me Nava had gone into labor with our first child. Since I was due for deployment on the front line, we had agreed weeks earlier that the best thing would be for her to have the baby in Tiberias, so her p...
…ad been murdered, by a 25-year-old Orthodox Jew and settlement activist named Yigal Amir. Standing there with Nava, I felt even more strongly what I’d told Leah by phone from New York after hearing Yitzhak was dead: his murder would leave a...
