Results for “Yitzhak”

…licted about my going into politics, despite her lifelong belief that the isswes of politics mattered, especially after Yitzhak had been cut down and killed for following the path on which I hoped to continue. Still, I could hear the pride, and relief, in her voice when I said: “...

the choice fell on Yitzhak Rabin. He had strong

things like the unfortunate American redefinition of Yitzhak’s “pocket

the veteran whom I’d urged Yitzhak to bring back for

and to redeem and continue all that Yitzhak had sacrificed.

and the person who led me into politics: Yitzhak Rabin. I

I was invited to see Yitzhak Rabin ten days later.

was Foreign Minister Yitzhak Shamir. Ideologically

Yitzhak had asked him to take over. He’d

he remained personally close to Yitzhak.

emotional attachment to our historic capital. “Yitzhak would never have

…Its centerpiece was a memorial service, at which Leah spoke very movingly of the need for both sides to finish the work Yitzhak had begun, a responsibility I pledged that we would do everything in our power to fulfill. Only Arafat struck a discordant note. He paired a tribute to...

…a security fence all along the edge of the West Bank, with a series of controlled crossing points for people and goods. Yitzhak had said no at the time, because he was worried it would be seen as a de facto border and undermine the idea of building coexistence. My view then, and...

“rotation” with Yitzhak Shamir, so that he could be in the government. He proposed the ideal of “national unity,” and greatly devalued the democratic concept of parliamentary opposition. Former Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni ruined her reputation when she refused to join Netanyahu...

…I also realized he was a Labor heavyweight and that, although he’d left the government, he remained personally close to Yitzhak. “Yes,” Yitzhak replied, nodding, suggesting that we talk through the idea in detail when I returned from New York. I was in my room at the Regency Hot...