213th Artillery Regiment, 230
Tzefoni, Daniel, 185, 191, 212, 221
ugda formations, 10–11
Ugda Sharon, 10–11, 18, 60–63, 225
Ugda Tal, 10, 18, 20, 60, 61, 262
Ugda Yoffe, 10, 18, 60, 61
Um Katef, 62, 86, 209, 224, 225, 228–29, 331
Unit 101 (“the Unit”), IDF, 49, 64–67, 70, 230, 268
United Arab Command, 6, 209
United Arab Republic, 5
United Nations (UN), 2, 29, 40, 125, 249, 260, 295
abandoned camp of, 189–90, 192
cease-fire considered and imposed by, 310, 333, 338–39, 350, 354, 356, 357–58, 379
peacekeeping force of, 8, 23–24, 100, 103, 189, 388
Security Council, 310
and Six Day War, 128
Truce Supporting Organization (UNTSO), 263
United States, 2–3, 53, 125, 294, 296
Arab propaganda about, 333
in arms embargo against Israel, 41, 92, 110
army of, 21
discrimination against Jews in, 39–40
global significance of Six Day War for, 265, 376
Israeli attempts to gain support from, 8, 11, 17, 24, 128, 364
Jewish immigration to, 392
M. Dayan on, 375
in Sinai Campaign, 23, 92, 99, 100, 103, 295
and Six Day War, 128, 153, 209, 333–34
strategic geographical advantages of, 28
Vatican, 296
Vautour fighter-bombers, 15, 108, 139, 144–45, 150, 248, 350
Via Dolorosa, 253, 296, 318
Vichy French, 53, 208
“Vietnam” as code for “Lion’s Gate,” 311
Vietnam War, 24, 204, 355
M. Dayan on, 375, 376
“Villa, the,” 134–35
Voice of Thunder (Kol Ha’Raam), 4–5, 8, 32
Wadi Joz, 267, 277, 286, 289–91, 298–99, 302
wadis, 277, 335
Wahsh (Wolf; M. Dayan’s Bedouin friend), 383
Wailing Wall (Kotel), see Western Wall
War Assets Administration, 45
War of Independence (1948), 1, 24, 25, 28, 29, 81, 119, 136, 253, 293, 351, 354, 382
“first sons” generation in, 49–52, 54–55
“war of movement” theory, 212, 242, 331
Warrior (Sharon), 391
Warrior Jew, 375–85
Warthogs, 313
Wavell, Archibald, 77
Weapons Systems and Planning Department, 113
Weizman, Ezer, 10, 15, 27–28, 46–48, 49, 103–4, 108–10, 113, 392
in Moked, 143, 152
Weizman, Reumah, 10, 251
West Bank, 3, 224, 263, 292, 294, 315, 336, 346, 351, 367, 379, 381
Western Wall (Wailing Wall), 129, 246, 257, 270, 322
Dayan’s entrance to, 336, 363, 376
gatekeeper of, 321–23
Israel’s taking of, 295, 310, 316–28, 322, 325, 326, 328, 388–89
poplar grove above, 2, 246, 260, 320–21, 396
prayer scrawled on, 388
spiritual symbolism of, 373, 387–88
West (Jewish) Jerusalem, 1, 253, 262
wildflower bouquet, 42, 48
Wilhelm, Kaiser, 300
Wilkes-Barre, Pa., 43–44
Wingate, Orde Charles “HaYedid,” 50, 73
in founding of IDF, 73, 76–79
World War I, 50, 51, 84, 204, 292
World War II, 54, 77, 79, 99, 204, 208, 217, 228
Allied victory in, 30
equipment from, 6, 22, 177, 188, 249
fighter pilots in, 39, 43–44
World War III, threat of, 295, 333
Yaakov, Pinhas, 178
Ya’akov, Ya’akov, 73
Yaakovi, Yaakov, 403
Yad Mordechai, 46
Yahya, Tahir, 128
Yarkoni, Yaakov, 193–97, 197, 199, 403, 404
Yavne, Kibbutz, 271
Yeager, Chuck, 112
Yehud, 24
Yemen, 23, 26, 115, 128, 333
Yeshiva Mercaz HaRav Kook, 271
yeshivas, 387
Yeshurun, Motti, 136, 352
Yiddish, 129
Yishai, 161, 167
Yishby, Moshe “Moki,” 193–96, 404
Yizhar Armoni Climb, 120
Yoav (Cheetah Cohen’s cousin), 90
Yoffe, Ady, 34
Yoffe, Avraham, 10, 29, 60, 291, 342, 345, 378
Yoffe, Yossi, 267
Yom Kippur War, 118, 221
Yossiffon, Benjamin, 114
Zahal, see Israel Defense Forces
Zahala, 19, 27, 124, 374
Zamosh, Yoram, 6, 8, 245–47, 256, 269–72, 274, 286, 289–91, 300–301, 303–4, 308, 309–10, 316–27, 322, 325, 328, 386–90
Zand, Uri, 181, 218–19, 236–37, 239–40, 404
Zin, wilderness of, 206
Zion, Mount (Har Zion), 246, 252, 320
Zion Gate, 252
Zionists, Zionism, 4, 7, 24, 39, 120, 128, 129, 231, 378, 389
practical, 74
Zippori, Mordechai “Motke,” 230, 234
Ziv, Dan, 91–96, 256, 268, 274–75, 277–78, 280–81, 287–88, 306, 308, 311, 327, 328
Zola, Émile, 377
Zur, Ben-Zion “Benzi,” 20, 214, 217–18, 239, 404
Zva Haganah L’Israel, 27
Zvili, Mordechai “Max,” 404