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…ber 19, 1977. With my arm around Nava, I watched the live American television coverage as Sadat’s plane touched down at Ben-Gurion airport. Begin was at the center of the throng of dignitaries on hand to greet him: a who’s who of political and military leaders not just from his a...

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…rfeiting the American support we’d secured by our efforts to reach a peace deal, an asset all Israeli governments would benefit from in other circumstances and contexts in the future. Fortunately, I had an alternative to a coalition with the Likud. Alarmed at the prospect of a h...

… avoidance of a peace deal which, with genuine reciprocity, should have been within reach. “I took the report of Shlomo Ben-Ami and Gilead Sher of last night’s discussion very badly...” it began. “This is not a negotiation. This is a manipulative attempt to pull us to a position...

…e Chicago Mercantile Exchange into a market for financial futures. Died Jan. 24, one day after he was struck by a car. Ben Steele, 35. He joined London-based hedge fund Armajaro Asset Management LLP in 2012 to start a pool trading shares of financial companies. Died Jan. 25 of a...

…d Amnon Lipkin, the paratroop commander at Chinese Farm and my successor as ramatkal when I left the army. Also, Shlomo Ben-Ami, the Moroccan-born, Oxford-educated historian and diplomat who had run against me for the Labor leadership. Shlomo had a gift for systematic analysis an...

… that a peace agreement was within reach, I had confidence he would make the effort. I had allowed Gili Sher and Shlomo Ben-Ami to go to Washington the week before for exploratory talks with Dennis Ross. Shlomo, as I knew he’d done in the back- channel talks with the Palestinians...

…o a tank crew who had taken refuge a few miles back from the canal. I’d lost two wonderful sayeret comrades, too: Amit Ben-Horn, the soldier who’d relayed the order from Motta to abort our second attempt to abduct the Syrian officers in Lebanon, and Amitai Nachmani, the officer...

… a lot of employed airplane mechanics. Where did we get the idea that education was about scholarship? This is not what Ben Franklin thought when our system was being designed, but he was outvoted. The need to please teachers: People who succeed at school are invariably people w...

…people on the kibbutz, only to be told we’d never wanted to employ outsiders in the first place. It was only because of Ben-Gurion that we felt unable to refuse. I’m sure that was true, but it seemed to me an incomplete answer, and an evasion. It struck me as an exercise in findi...

…ever, there wasn’t going to be a peace deal. As our El Al 707 descended over the Mediterranean for our approach back to Ben-Gurion Airport, I faced the more immediate issue of ensuring my government survived. This was partly in case, against all odds, Arafat showed a readiness to...

…rass.” The other panelist was scheduled to be former Nixon speechwriter and now bespectacled, drone-voiced personality Ben Stein, but he canceled out at the last minute. Ann Coulter, former Justice Department attorney and Senate aide, now a professional reactionary and Stepford...

… I also spent time working out how to square what I felt I needed to say, with what many in the audience, and certainly Ben-Zion and Bibi, would expect me to say. Not only was Yoni being mourned across Israel after Entebbe. He was being elevated — in the spirit of Shimon’s words...

…lly in mid-September. I spoke personally to Tony Blair and French President Jacques Chirac, and also dispatched Shlomo-Ben Ami, Amnon Lipkin, Yossi Beilin and Shimon Peres, who was Minister of Regional Cooperation in the coalition, on a series of diplomatic visits to make sure t...