Golda (71 page)

Solel Boneh (building cooperative), 55–57, 58, 77, 83, 200

Solomon, King (of ancient Israel), 56, 324

Somoza, Anastasio, 196

South Africa, 204

Soviet Jews, 151–52, 154–61, 161, 169,

239, 240, 251, 311–12, 314

Soviet Union, 246, 312

Arab-Israeli peace talks and, 1–2, 259–60, 262–68, 275, 333–35,

355, 379, 382

Foreign Ministry, 152–54, 155, 156,

157

Golda as Israeli ambassador to, 148–61

Israeli nuclear program and, 198 Jordan and, 304

military aid to Egypt and, 265–67, 273, 276–77

Ministry of State Security, 152 nonaggression pact with Hitler, 95 partition and, 139

Six-Day War and, 218 Suez and, 189, 191

UN and, 205

Yom Kippur War and, 317, 320, 323,

329, 331–33, 339, 341–43, 345

Spanish Civil War, 156, 380–81

Stalin, Joseph, 95, 151–54, 159–61

Steinglass, Meyer, 72

Stern, Isaac, 3

Stern
(magazine), 327

Stern Gang.
See
Lehi Sternman, Esther, 49

Straits of Tiran, 189, 192, 219–20, 270,

274

Streisand, Barbra, 268 Suez Canal

French-British-Israeli War of 1956 and, 187–93, 210, 221

Israeli offer of pullback from, 272–76, 281

War of Attrition and, 236

Yom Kippur War and, 315, 318, 323,

332, 347

Sukkoth, 332

Sutton
(ship), 96

Svetlov, Mikhail, 161

Swedish International Peace Research Institute, 276

Swissair bombing, 284

Switzerland, 91–92

Symington, Stuart, 276

Syria, 70, 126, 283, 287, 364, 379

Arab-Israeli peace talks and, 262, 270, 355

Jordan invaded by, 301, 303–4

partition and, 132, 141, 147, 149

Six-Day War and, 218–21, 223–24,

284

Yom Kippur War and, 313–19, 321–23, 325–26, 328–31, 333,

340, 360, 366–69

Syrkin, Marie, 52, 55–56, 80

Tal, Wasfi, 306

Talmudic law, 177

Tanganyika, 203

Teachers’ Union, 312

Technion (Israel Institute of Technology), 202

Tel Aviv, 45, 47, 56–58, 61, 93–94, 105,

107, 132, 133, 147, 151

attacks on Lod Airport in, 284 mayoralty elections of 1955, 179 Yom Kippur War and, 323

Thant, U, 219–20

Thatcher, Margaret, 4

Third Temple, 324

Tiberias, 100, 139–40, 172

Time
, 3, 291–92

Tito, Josip, 280
Today
show, 3
Toronto Telegram
, 185 trade unions, 171

Transjordan, 87, 125–28, 141–43,

148–49, 288, 300

Treblinka, 102

Truman, Harry S., 6, 9, 108, 111,

122–23, 139, 168

Tubman, William V. S., 202 Tuchman, Isadore, 35, 41

Tunisian Jews, 169

Turkey, 19, 70

Turkish Jews, 169

Uganda, 202

Ukrainian secret police, 152 Ukraine, 14, 85, 268

unemployment tax, 80–81

United Jewish Appeal (UJA), 134–38, 148, 170, 241, 260, 303

United Nations

African states and, 205–6

Arab-Israeli peace talks and, 259, 266, 354–55

General Assembly, 2, 125, 131, 185 Golda as delegate to, 169

Golda as Israeli foreign minister and, 183–84

Israeli bombing of southern Lebanon and, 285

Munich Olympics and, 286 Palestinian refugees and, 289–90 partition and, 123, 125–28, 139, 143,

150–51, 182

peacekeepers, 192–93, 260, 347

Security Council, 139, 184, 190,

331

Resolution 242, 263, 302

Six-Day War and, 218–19, 221 South Africa and, 204

Suez and, 189, 191, 200 Yom Kippur War and, 320

UN Special Committee on Palestine (UNSCOP), 125, 128, 131

United States

alliance with Israel and, 10

Arab-Israeli peace talks and, 1–2, 259–76, 355–58, 382

arms embargo to Middle East and, 151

Eastern European Jews in, 16, 18 Golda’s fund-raising in, 64–66,

69–73, 78, 134–38, 147–49,

166–68, 173–73, 224

Israeli nuclear program and, 198–99

Jewish refugees from Nazis and, 92 Jordan and, 301

occupied territories and, 295 Six-Day war and, 219, 236 Suez Canal and, 188–92

Syrian invasion of Jordan and, 303–4

yishuv
declaration of independence and, 143–44

Yom Kippur War and cease-fire and, 319–20, 325–50

U.S. Congress, 3, 264, 275, 311–12,

330, 345

U.S. Defense Department, 310, 330

U.S. State Department, 2, 108, 139, 260, 262, 265, 310, 329, 334, 359

Uruguay, 184

Vatican, 278

Venezuela, 184

Verwoerd, Hendrik, 204

Vietnam War, 10

Villa Harun al-Rashid, 172

Wagner, Richard, 37

Waldheim, Kurt, 286

War of Attrition, 236, 257, 264, 349

War of Independence, 132–33, 138–49,

155, 223

Warsaw

pogrom of 1881, 14

Ghetto, 102–3, 178, 280

Washington Post
, 240 Watergate scandal, 341

Weizmann, Chaim, 39–40, 86, 91,

103, 111–12, 117–19, 121, 139

Wells, H. G., 34 West Bank, 8

debate over annexation and administration of, 289–90,

293–300, 353

West Bank (
continued
) decision to keep, 229–30 Eliav survey of, 290 Golda on, 374, 380

Jordan and, 288, 302, 305–6

Western Wall, 56, 65, 223–24, 252

West Germany, 204, 379

Munich Olympic attacks and, 283, 285–87

reparations and, 193–96, 279 White, Col. T. W., 92

White, William S., 373

White Paper of 1939, 93–96, 98,

106–8, 123, 129

White Papers, 76

Wiesel, Elie, 10–11

Wilson, Harold, 373

Winterton, Lord (Edward Turnour), 92 women’s equality, 54, 246–48

Women’s Labour Council, 90, 247

Workmen’s Circle, 33 World Jewish Congress, 278 World War I, 35

World War II, 95–105, 132, 153, 290

World Zionist Organization, 19, 79,

86, 145

Yadin, Yigal, 143–44

Yamit deepwater port, 297, 299, 353

Yariv, Aharon, 287, 346–47, 349, 357

Yemenites, 54, 163–64, 169, 171, 173

Yiddish theaters and publishing house,

Soviet Union, 161

yishuv
(Jewish community of Palestine)

declaration of independence and, 143–46

early years of, 46, 53, 57, 63, 67, 70,

72, 75–77, 80, 82, 85

fight to bring Holocaust survivors to Palestine, after WW II and, 105–15

fight to bring Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany, 85–86, 91, 93,

94, 97–98, 101–3

leadership of, arrests and Golda’s assumption of, 116–20,

128–29

partition of Palestine and, 126, 132,

139–42

Yom Kippur War (1973), 8, 313–33,

372, 377–78

American-Soviet cease-fire and call for Egypt-Israel negotiations and, 332–50, 360

political aftermath of (Earthquake), 351–52, 360–66, 383

Young Maccabean, The
(magazine), 31 Yugoslavia, 151

Yugoslavian Jews, 169

Yusuf, Abu, 284

Zaire, 277

Zambia, 203–4

Zamir, Zvi, 285

Zeira, Eli, 315, 317–18 Zhemchuzhina, Polina (Pearl

Karpovskaia), 158

Zim Lines, 200, 284

Zionism, 81, 106, 108, 112, 120, 123,

379.
See also
Labor Zionism Abdullah and, 126

American Jews and, 69–73, 169–70 Balfour Declaration and, 39–40

Golda first involved with, 19–20, 30–32, 35–39

great Ingathering and, 163–64 Peel Commission and, 88 mainstream, vs. Socialist, 72 Nazi Germany and, 86 pioneers in Palestine during

Mandate, 46–48, 50

revisionists, 76

Zionist Congresses Twentieth (Zurich, 1937),

87–88

Twenty-first (Geneva, 1939), 94

Twenty-second (Basle, 1946),

122

Zionist Organization of America, 70, 72

Zuckerman, Nomi, 82–84

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, who holds a doctorate in history, has reported for the
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, written for many of America’s leading magazines, chaired the journalism department at the University of Alaska–Fairbanks, and trained reporters in Central Asia and Africa. She divides her time between the Catskill Mountains of New York and Bulawayo, Zimbabwe.

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