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INDEX
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Abasan el-Kabir, 177, 178, 181, 182, 190
Abdullah, king of Jordan, 40, 319
Abolnik, Yoram, 214, 218, 239, 403
Abraham, 2, 252, 264, 337, 381
Abu Agheila, 62, 86, 209, 228
Abu Ghosh, 258
Abu Suweir, 148, 153–56
Abu Tor, house at, 1–2, 394–96
Acre prison, 389
Adam, Kuti, 230, 234
“After These Things” (Kovner), 397
Afula, hospital at, 352
Agassi, Jacob, 160, 162, 353, 393
Ajlun, Mount, 143
Akiva, Rabbi, 259
Aknin, Yaakov, 230, 232
Al-Aqsa Mosque, 253, 268, 294, 296, 319, 327, 386
Algeria, 62, 128, 333
Alkayam, Sa’adia “Supapo,” 70–71, 94
Allon, Yigal, 49, 127
Alon, Modi, 46–48
Alsop, Joseph, 128
Alterman, Natan, 99, 126
Amer, Abdel Hakim, 5, 209
American Colony, 267, 269, 276
Amir, Gabi, 212, 213
Amit, Meir, 10
Amitai, Boaz, 181–82, 190, 200–201, 238–40, 369, 371
Amitai, Eliezer, 239
Amman, 127, 160–62, 274, 294
Ammunition Hill, 266, 267, 277, 290, 291, 306
Angel, Ilan, 325
Aqaba, Gulf of, 24
Arab gangs and saboteur bands, 77–78
Arab League, 5, 67
Arab League Summit (1964), 6
Arab Legion, 1–2, 28, 40–41, 46, 50, 55, 128, 153, 209, 253, 263, 266, 270, 280, 283, 285, 288–90, 293, 295, 297, 298, 301, 311, 316, 318–19, 321, 351
Arab Revolt, 77
Arafat, Yasir, 383
Arif, Abdul Rahman, 128
Ark of the Covenant, 252
Armageddon, 8
Armée de l’Air, 109
Armoni, Mrs., 120
Armoni, Yizhar, 119–21
Arnan, Avram, 394–95
artillery fire, 193–96, 218–19, 229, 232–35, 238–39, 240, 252, 256, 258, 266, 269, 275–76, 278, 285, 286, 298, 311, 321
Arusi, Shimon, 321, 325
Ashkelon, 203, 224, 249
Ashkenazi, Giora, 311
Augusta Victoria Hospital, 299–300
Augusta Victoria Ridge, 267, 269, 270, 277, 289, 295, 296, 298–302, 306–11, 307, 316
Auntie Leah’s, 112
Austro-Hungarian Empire, 204
Avidan, Shimon, 47
Aviram, Menachem “Men,” 120
Ayalon, Amos, 21, 182, 186, 192–96, 237, 238, 338, 339, 364, 404
Ayalon Valley and Plain, 50, 205
Bagnold, Ralph, 77
bakara (control), 152
balagan (chaos), 63, 185, 226
bangalore torpedoes, 257–58, 275–78, 285, 302, 308, 311
Barak, Ehud, 1, 87, 395–96
Bardawill Lagoon, 145, 353
Barkai, Zeev, 4–8, 245–50, 269–70, 274, 277, 282–84, 286–87, 302, 306–7, 308, 327
Bar-Kochva, Colonel, 356–58
Bar-Kochva, Simon, 378
Barnoach, Itzik, 35
Bar-On, Mordechai “Morele,” 82, 382
Bar-Zohar, Michael, 364–67
Batei Pagi, 85
Bat Galim, 32, 34
Battalion 79, 184
“battle picture,” 167
“battle range,” 342
BBC, 128
beards, 115–16
Beaufighter, 56–58
Bedouin, 78, 293, 381, 382–83
Be’eri, Kibbutz, 393
Beersheba, 12, 29, 35, 63, 76, 129, 182, 240, 313, 366
Begin, Menachem, 49, 75–76, 126–27, 129, 264, 265, 297, 310, 365, 389
Beilis, Shmuel, 183, 404
Beit HaKerem, 271, 326
Beit Hashita, Kibbutz, 256, 258, 269, 288
Ben-Gal, Yannush, 115
Ben-Gurion, David, 64–65, 68, 92, 124, 125, 126, 295, 364–66, 382, 392
appreciation of Arab stance by, 74
eclipse of, 364–66
and M. Dayan, 54, 69, 74, 75–76, 100, 125, 253, 361, 366, 374
memoirs of, 366
misjudgment of, 364, 366
regard for, 49, 76, 366
Ben-Gurion International airport, 9
Ben-Gurion: The Armed Prophet (Bar-Zohar), 364
Ben-Hamidar, Nachshon, 282
Ben-Hanan, Yosi, 118, 119–21, 175–76, 179–82, 184–85, 189, 212–13, 219–20, 241, 364, 365, 391
Beni Suef, 135, 148, 151
Ben Yaakov, Aryeh, 322, 325
Ben-Yehuda, Eliezer, 85
Berterer, Rafi, 220–21
Bethlehem, 263, 349, 351, 374, 379
Bible, 27, 78, 125, 129
Israel of, 127, 264, 381
military campaigns in, 99, 208, 230, 316, 348, 378
see also specific figures
biblical sites, 2, 8, 50, 53, 60, 63, 205–6, 252–53, 264, 310, 337, 381–90
see also specific sites
Bikel, Gideon, 278, 282–83, 288
Bir Gafgafa, 139, 151, 209, 241, 331, 332, 340–45, 345, 346, 368, 370
Bir Laffan, 240, 331
Bir Thamada, 331, 341–42, 346
Black Arrow, Operation (Gaza Raid), 68–74, 72, 268
Blake, William, 259
“blind map,” 21
blitzkrieg, 177, 212, 242
“Blokada,” 341, 342, 343
Bloody Riots, 77
bombing runs, 16, 25, 56–57
in Moked strategy for total war, 104–9, 144–48, 158, 163–65
timetable for, 108, 144–45
bombs, 28, 104–5, 135, 142, 146, 166, 167
border raids:
Arab, 23, 26, 40, 50, 64, 68, 125
Israeli, 65–66
Bourguiba, Habib, 128
“boxes,
” in Egypt’s military doctrine, 228
breakthrough strategy, 179, 185, 190, 331
in Jerusalem, 266–67, 273–78, 279, 285, 290
Brezhnev, Leonid, 334
British Army:
Jewish Brigade in, 54, 204
M. Dayan in, 78
brutality, 58–59
Burgata, 35
Burma, 79
burn victims, 199, 221–23, 238, 240, 242, 344, 369
Butamiya, 355
Cahaner, Shimon “Katcha,” 49–52, 62, 70, 94, 98, 225, 268, 317
in “the Unit,” 64–67
Cairo, 145–47, 262
Cairo International Airport, 157, 163
Cairo West airfield, 112, 148, 157, 158–59, 164, 249
camaraderie, 20, 50, 62, 65, 112, 196–97, 284, 290
Cameron, David, 178, 193, 214
Cameron, Denis, 364, 365
campaign of roads, 228, 331–34
cannons, 22, 28, 135, 154, 162, 177
Capernaum, 348
Carmeli, Benzi, 186
Carmeli, Moshe, 232, 355
casualties, Arab:
in Black Arrow, 71
in Sinai Campaign, 95
in Six Day War, 200, 234, 241, 289, 343, 346
casualties, Israeli, 207–11, 314, 335, 345, 396
in Black Arrow, 70–71
in border raids, 68
among friends and family, 107, 168, 184, 191, 199, 200, 203, 217, 238–40, 284, 340, 343, 368–72
in IAF, 315
informing families of, 371–72
at Ishdud, 58
in Jerusalem, 279, 282, 286, 288, 290–91, 298–99, 301, 311
of paratroopers, 203, 279, 282, 290–91
in 7th Armored Brigade, 184, 197, 199, 200–201, 208–9, 217–18, 222, 238–40, 242, 368–72, 403–4
in Sinai Campaign, 94–95
in War of Independence, 55, 119, 351
see also specific individuals
Catholics, 44–45
cease-fire:
consideration of, 209, 249, 310, 333, 338–39, 350, 354
externally imposed, 333–34
imposition of, 356, 357–58, 379
Centurion tanks, 22, 127, 186, 198–99, 201–2, 229, 235, 342
Cěské Budějovice, 46
Chain Gate, 323
Chaker, Sherif Zeid, 209
Challe, Maurice, 82–83
chaver mayvee chaver (friend brings a friend), 21, 65, 70
chicken fricassee, 304–5
Chief of Staff Citations, 1, 87
children:
on kibbutzim, 7, 157, 245–46
in prelude to war, 32