Where Tel Aviv appears
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…ll child, I was keenly aware of the historic events swirling around me. Mishmar Hasharon, the hamlet north of Tel Aviv where I spent the first 17 years of my life, was one of the early kibbutzim. These collective farming settlements had the...
… with Bibi, the TV was showing pictures of tens of thousands of people celebrating the results in the central Tel Aviv square, now renamed in Rabin’s memory, where he had been murdered nearly four years earlier. Before leaving to join them,...
/ BARAK / 31 Nava and I voted, we attended an event for Labor supporters north of Tel Aviv, before flying to Beersheva to spend the final hours in the Negev. I’d arranged for Shlomo Ben-Ami to go to Kiryat Shmona in the north — emphasizing,...
…s latest venture is the modeling agency MC2 based in South Beach, Fla. with satellite offices in New York and Tel Aviv. Since his agency is deregulated and “no criminal charges 40 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_011951
…s to go on cross-border intelligence missions. The initial response from the kirya — military headquarters in Tel Aviv — was so frustrating that anyone else would have given up. None of the generals saw any reason to believe his scheme woul...
…n it was detonated by remote control. In the broadcast, Fashi accurately described the Mossad campus north of Tel Aviv. He said he had been given a laptop equipped with a second operating system and used it to communicate through online dro...
…ffice in Ramallah, sometimes in mine, sometimes over dinner in the 31 st -floor flat I was renting in central Tel Aviv. I remember one dinner in particular. I led him onto the terrace after we’d eaten. It was a startlingly clear night. You...
…oss to Sharon. Israel had changed dramatically from the kibbutz-centered pioneer society of my youth. Greater Tel Aviv, in particular, was thriving economically, and the rising crop of millionaires, whether from traditional business or in t...
…was the contrast between the overwhelmingly secular, politically and socially liberal, and culturally Western Tel Aviv, with its lively cafés and restaurants, and the constellation of wealthy suburbs to the north; and smaller Israeli towns...
nized a campaign of civil disobedience to try to bring the government down. The sheer venom hit home during a pair of events I attended with Rabin, to award of the status of “city” to towns which had crossed the required threshold in popula...
on the line to the Prime Minister. Since the exchange was in Hebrew, I’m fairly sure anyone overhearing me had no idea what we were talking about. “I need you to come back as soon as possible,” Rabin said. I already knew, from Giora, that h...
… for too long. His rebuttal caused barely a ripple. As I read the latest Israeli newspapers before landing in Tel Aviv, I found that at least I wasn’t totally on my own. Reporters had been phoning politicians for comment. Most responded lik...
… for too long. His rebuttal caused barely a ripple. As I read the latest Israeli newspapers before landing in Tel Aviv, I found that at least I wasn’t totally on my own. Reporters had been phoning politicians for comment. Most responded lik...
…ive missile strike which killed the Sayeret Matkal men, I had abandoned the injured and immediately “fled” to Tel Aviv. I probably should have answered the letter. But I assumed even rudimentary checks would reveal the story to be false. I’...
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...
…ily’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 a newly built row of small, semi-detached townhouses which, best of a...
…anon. Beyond the fact that my new job was a promotion, I had a personal reason for welcoming the move back to Tel Aviv. Ten days after Sadat’s assassination, I had endured a frightening few days surrounding the birth of our third daughter,...
…y name, as I introduced myself to my driver. In fact, we had already met: during the run-through exercises in Tel Aviv. After we got into the cars, I asked him how his scouting of the route had gone. He said basically OK, but that he’d noti...
. We found a new building development in north Tel Aviv with a pair of apartment blocks under construction. For two nights, we ran through the whole thing: setting off in the dinghies from a missile boat off the Israeli coast before midnigh...
…litary operations in the kirya. Rechavam Ze’evi as well, the head of the central command area, which included Tel Aviv. So was Ahrahle Yariv, who had succeeded Meir Amit as head of military intelligence, and nodded glumly as I joined them....
