Results for “Yitzhak Shamir”

…seemed off the agenda, at least for now. In early August, I was standing next to Giora Einy — the “political operative” Yitzhak had sent to help bring me into his government, and a friend of Peres as well — when Shimon rose to speak to the dozens of well- wishers at his 73"-birth...

… between Israel and negotiators from Syria, Lebanon, Jordan and the Palestinians — had quickly stalemated and stalled. Yitzhak came to office saying he was not interested in a peace process, which seemed to him a license for endless talk with no set endpoint, but in peacemaking....

…ep things ticking over, and avoid any major new crisis. He appointed an old personal friend — a corporate lawyer named Yitzhak Molcho — as our negotiator. I finally realized how pointless the exercise was when, during a visit to the United States, I found myself in New York at t...

…ep things ticking over, and avoid any major new crisis. He appointed an old personal friend — a corporate lawyer named Yitzhak Molcho — as our negotiator. I finally realized how pointless the exercise was when, during a visit to the United States, I found myself in New York at t...

Yitzhak’s murder had acted like a kind lightning strike, freezing Israelis in a mix of disgust over what had occurred and awareness of the dangers this brand of hatred and extremism posed. I was concerned the moment would be allowed to pass. My hope was that we could seize the op...

…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 was an extraordinary mix of qualities: a brave officer, first in the pre-state...

Yitzhak had asked him to take over. He’d

…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...

…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: “...

…en Israel and the PLO, King Hussein of Jordan followed suit by negotiating a bilateral peace treaty with Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin of Israel. This culminated in a spectacular signing ceremony at the desert border crossing of Wadi Araba in August 1994. In the agreement, Israel...

…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.