Arik - The Life Of Ariel Sharon (118 page)

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Mordechai Scheinerman: courtesy of Natana Levine

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Arik and Dita: courtesy of Natana Levine

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Farmyard: courtesy of Natana Levine

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Family portrait: courtesy of Natana Levine

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Avigail: courtesy of Natana Levine

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No annexation: courtesy of Natana Levine

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At the beach: courtesy of Natana Levine

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Seder night: courtesy of Natana Levine

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Miriam and Dita: courtesy of Natana Levine

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Young Sharon: courtesy of Natana Levine

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Neck-deep in fighting”: January 1948. Israel Defense Forces and Defense Establishment Archives (IDF Archives)

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Meir Har-Zion : IDF Archives, Assaf Kutin.

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“Hostile takeover”: IDF Archives, Avraham Vered

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Moshe Dayan : Israel Government Press Office (IGPO)

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“Ate from the same mess-tin”: IDF Archives, Avraham Vered

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Rehavam Ze’evi and Arik: IDF Archives, Avraham Vered

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David Ben-Gurion: IDF Archives, Avraham Vered

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Gur, Arik, Lily and Vera: IDF Archives, Avraham Vered. Courtesy of Gilad Sharon

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May 1967: IDF Archives

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Yael Dayan: IDF Archives, Amos Zucker

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Generals Tal, Sharon, Gavish, Yoffe: IDF Archives

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Arik and Ze’evi: IDF Archives

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Arik and Omri: IPPA photo archive

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Haim Bar-Lev and Dayan: IDF Archives, Giora Gera

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General Yoffe: IGPO

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Not up to the job: IPPA photo archive

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Colonel Amnon Reshef: IDF Archives, Eli Chen

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October 8: IDF Archives, Shlomo Arad

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Tanks: IDF Archives

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Amphibious bridging tugs: Shlomo Arad

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Bar-Lev: IGPO, Yossi Greenberg

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M-113 armored personnel carrier: IDF Archives

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Rolling bridge: IDF Archives, IDF Spokesman

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Dayan and Abrasha Tamir: IDF Archives

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Yaffa Yarkoni: Isaac Shokal

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“King of Israel”: IGPO, Moshe Milner

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Rabin: Uzi Keren, Haaretz Newspaper Archives ©

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Ministerial repast: Israel Sun, Israel Simyonski

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Anwar Sadat: Israel Sun

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Begin, Burg, and Katzover: IGPO, Chanania Herman

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Hebron Hills: IDF Archives

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Near the Canal: IDF Archives

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With his defense minister: IGPO, Nati Harnik

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Sa’ad Hadad: IDF Archives

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Begin and Hadad: IDF Archives, IDF Spokesman

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Beaufort: IDF Archives, Ministry of Defense

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Lebanon, June 1982: Shlomo Arad

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Yitzhak Shamir and Mordechai Zipori: IDF Archives, IDF Spokesman

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Rabin, Eitan, Tamir; IDF Archives, Uri Dan

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Bashir Gemayel: IDF and Defense Establishment Archives, Uri Dan

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Arik and Raful: IDF Archives

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Arik and Raful: IDF Archives

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Honor guard: Uzi Keren, Haaretz Newspaper Archives ©

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Protesters: Uzi Keren, Haaretz Newspaper Archives ©

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With unfurled maps: Israel Sun

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Yisrael Katz: Moshe Shai

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Lily: IGPO, Nati Harnik

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Druze feast: Leon Minster, Haaretz Newspaper Archives ©

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Arik, Modai, and Levy: Moshe Shai

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“Night of the Microphones”: Moshe Shai

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Minister of Housing: Israel Sun, Ilan Ossendryver

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From Russia: Israel Sun, Ilan Ossendryver

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Sycamore Ranch soiree: Micky Kratzman, Haaretz Newspaper Archives ©

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Election night, 1992: Micky Kratzman, Haaretz Newspaper Archives ©

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King Hussein: IGPO, Amos Ben Gershom

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Netanyahu: IGPO, Ya’acov Sa’ar

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Yonatan: Moshe Shai

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Ehud Barak: IGPO, Avi Ohayon

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Temple Mount: AFP/Getty images

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Reuven Adler: Nir Kedar, Haaretz Newspaper Archives ©

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Uri Dan, Cyril Kern, Arie Genger: David Rubinger

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Coalition: IGPO, Amos Ben Gershom

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Marit Danon: IGPO, Moshe Milner

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Mayor Giuliani: IGPO, Amos Ben Gershom

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Shaul Mofaz and Binyamin Ben-Eliezer: IGPO, Moshe Milner

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“Teaching you where the fish pees from”: Amos Biderman, Haaretz Newspaper Archives ©

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Bus-bombing: IGPO, Avi Ohayon

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Dov Weissglas: Lior Mizrachi, Baubau Agency, Haaretz Newspaper Archives ©

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“Arik and I, I and Arik.”: Israel Sun

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Michal Modai: IGPO, Avi Ohayon

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Comfortable, confident, enjoying the job: Baubau Agency, Haaretz Newspaper Archives ©

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Oval Office: IGPO, Moshe Milner

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Aqaba, June 2003: Israel Sun, Ariel Jerozolimski

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“The president liked Sharon”: Alon Ron, Haaretz Newspaper Archives ©

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Mahmoud Abbas: IGPO, Avi Ohayon

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Peace diplomacy cartoon: Eran Wolkowski, Haaretz Newspaper Archives ©

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Rotem: IGPO, Avi Ohayon

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Yitzchak David Grossman: IGPO, Amos Ben Gershom

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Naomi Blumenthal: Pavel Wohlberg, Haaretz Newspaper Archives ©

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Dan Halutz and Moshe Ya’alon: Reuters

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Omri: Lior Mizrachi, Baubau Agency, Haaretz Newspaper Archives ©

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Tommy Lapid: Lior Mizrachi, Baubau Agency, Haaretz Newspaper Archives ©

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Festival of Tabernacles: IGPO, Avi Ohayon

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Atzmona: IGPO, Amos Ben Gershom

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Crawford, Texas: IGPO, Avi Ohayon

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Disengagement: IGPO, Mark Neyman

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Kfar Darom: IGPO, Yossi Zamir

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Hannuka: Lior Mizrachi, Baubau Agency, Haaretz Newspaper Archives ©

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Omri goes to jail: Israel Sun, Kfir Sivan

Grateful acknowledgment is made to the following for permission to reprint previously published material:

Greenhill Books: Excerpt from
The War of Atonement
by Chaim Herzog. Copyright © 1975 by Chaim Herzog. Reprinted by permission of Greenhill Books as administered by Pen & Sword Books.

The Orion Publishing Group: Excerpt from
Moshe Dayan: Story of My Life
by Moshe Dayan. Copyright © 1976 by Moshe Dayan. Reprinted by permission of The Orion Publishing Group.

Penguin Books Ltd.: Excerpt from
Elusive Peace: How the Holy Land Defeated America
by Ahron Bregman. Copyright © 2005 by Ahron Bregman and Brook Lapping Productions Ltd. Reprinted by permission of Penguin Books Ltd.

Random House LLC: Excerpt from
On the Banks of the Suez: An Israeli General’s Personal Account of the Yom Kippur War
by Avraham Adan. Translation copyright © 1980 by Presidio Press. Reprinted by permission of Presidio Press, an imprint of The Ballantine Publishing Group, a division of Random House LLC. All rights reserved.

Simon & Schuster, Inc.: Excerpt from
Warrior: An Autobiography of Ariel Sharon
with David Chanoff. Copyright © 1999, 2001 by Simon & Schuster, Inc. Reprinted by permission of Simon & Schuster, Inc.

David Landau immigrated to Israel from the United Kingdom as a young man. His career in journalism began in 1970 at
The Jerusalem Post
, and he joined
Haaretz
in 1993 as news editor. He founded of
Haaretz
’s English edition and was its editor from 1997 to 2004, and was editor in chief of
Haaretz
’s Hebrew edition until 2008. He is the longtime Israel correspondent for
The Economist
. Landau collaborated with Israel’s president Shimon Peres on Peres’ memoir,
Battling for Peace
, and he published, with President Peres,
Ben-Gurion: A Political Life
. He is also the author of
Piety and Power
, an account of the increasingly significant role the ultra-orthodox
(haredi)
play in Israel, the United States, and Europe. Landau graduated with a degree in law from University College London and studied in leading yeshivas in Israel. He is married with children and grandchildren and lives in Jerusalem.

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