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CHAPTER 1: MAY DAY
5 “The Progressive World”: Al Hamishmar, March 8, 1953.
13 “the beautiful and pure”: Haim Gouri, “Hareut,” http://www.izkor.gov.il/Song.aspx?id=19.
16 “Once people were ready”: Alon Ein Shemer, May 1, 1967.
17 “Comrades should know”: Alon Ein Shemer, May 6, 1967.
CHAPTER 2: THE CENTER
25 keenly aware of their redemptive role: Shlomo Aviner, Rabenu, ed. Ze’ev Neuman (Jerusalem: Sifriyat Beit El, 2004), 229–32.
30 “A serious boy”: Assessment by Yoske Ahituv, to Moshe Eyal and Lippa Aharoni, February 3, 1966.
32 “We must make more”: www.meirtv.co.il/site/content_idx.asp?idx:5410&cat_id=3778.
33 “‘They divided My land!’”: Joel 4:3.
CHAPTER 3: BORN TO SERVE
38 Givat Brenner was torn: There were three main kibbutz movements. Meuhad, to which Givat Brenner belonged, was the largest (a majority of its members were pro-Soviet). The pro-Western minority within the Meuhad movement seceded and formed the Ichud kibbutz federation. Kibbutz Artzi, the federation of Hashomer Hatzair kibbutzim (to which Avital Geva’s kibbutz, Ein Shemer, belonged), was entirely pro-Soviet. There was a fourth movement, far smaller than the others: Hakibbutz Hadati, the federation of Orthodox kibbutzim, a part of the religious Zionist movement.
39 On a Friday evening: Yoman Hakibbutz—Givat Brenner, July 26, 1951.
52 The 28th Battalion was absorbed: The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) is composed of a standing army of draftees and a reservist army. Young men enter the reserves following their three-year service as draftees. (Young women are drafted but are, for the most part, exempt from reserve duty.)
The paratrooper corps—which included the standing army’s paratrooper brigade (the 35th) and, along with the 55th, another reservist paratrooper brigade (the 80th)—was Israel’s elite combat force in the formative years of the state. Some two thousand men served in the 55th at any given time.
The brigade contains three combat battalions, each with about four hundred men. Those battalions are the 28th, the 66th, and the 71st.
CHAPTER 4: A TIME OF WAITING
55 On the streets of Cairo: Naftali Arbel and M. Mizrahi, eds., The Six Day War (Tel Aviv: Mizrahi, 1967), 25–26.
56 The reservists of the 55th Brigade left: Yisrael Harel, ed., Sha’ar Ha’arayot (The Lions’ Gate; Tel Aviv: Ma’arakhot, 1972), 11–49; Motta Gur, Har Habayit Beyadenu (The Temple Mount Is in Our Hands; Tel Aviv: Ma’arakhot, 1973), 25–48.
58 “What’s good about Arik”: Gur, Har Habayit Beyadenu, 28.
59 One song promised: Yechiel Mohar (lyrics) and Moshe Vilansky (music), “Anahnu Na’avor” (We Will Pass), http://shironet.mako.co.il/artist?type=lyrics&lang=1&prfid=334&wrkid=8446.
59 “Nasser is waiting”: Haim Hefer, “Natzer Mehakeh LeRabin” (Nasser Is Waiting for Rabin), http://shironet.mako.co.il/artist?type=lyrics&lang=1&prfid=168&wrkid=6342.
60 “The city that sits”: Naomi Shemer, “Yerushalayim Shel Zahav” (Jerusalem of Gold), http://shironet.mako.co.il/artist?type=lyrics&lang=1&prfid=938&wrkid=1619.
61 On Shabbat afternoon, in the waning light: Harel, Sha’ar Ha’arayot, 26.
62 “It’s clear to me”: Ibid., 31.
65 Shabbat morning, June 3: Ibid., 36–37.
CHAPTER 5: NO-MAN’S-LAND
68 On Israel Radio: Chaim Herzog, Israel Radio, June 5, 1967.
70 Deeply tanned: Harel, Sha’ar Ha’arayot, 54–55.
71 The buses, slow and weighted: Ibid., 57–60, 160–61.
75 The battle hadn’t even been engaged: Gur, Har Habayit Beyadenu, 194–95.
76 A medic, hearing the whistle: Harel, Sha’ar Ha’arayot, 83–84.
76 He was Yossi Yochai: Ibid., 37.
77 A paratrooper entered a courtyard: Avraham Shapira, ed., Siah Lohamim: Pirkei Hakshavah Vehitbonenut (Soldiers’ Talk; Tel Aviv: Haverim Tze’irim Mehatnuah Hakibbutzit, 1967), 227.
77 From the back of an alley: Ibid., 117.
78 Their commander, Michael Odem: Ibid., 120–21; Gur, Har Habayit Beyadenu, 231–35.
81 “Nu, Motta, are we moving?”: Gur, Har Habayit Beyadenu, 262.
83 Motta ordered tanks from another unit: Harel, Sha’ar Ha’arayot, 138; Gur, Har Habayit Beyadenu, 269–85.
CHAPTER 6: “THE TEMPLE MOUNT IS IN OUR HANDS”
87 Motta and Arik stood: Gur, Har Habayit Beyadenu, 288–92.
89 Motta took the radio: Ibid., 308–9.
90 “Cease fire,” he ordered: Ibid., 316.
92 Rabbi Goren hurried: Ibid., 321.
93 Rabbi Goren sent his assistant: Simcha Raz, Hila Welberstein, and Rabbi Shalom Y. Klein, eds., Mashmia’ Yeshuah (Mercaz Shapira: Or Etzion, 2010), 334. This is based on the version that Rabbi Zvi Yehudah told his students. According to another version (Harel, Sha’ar Ha’arayot), it was Captain Yoram Zamosh who sent the jeep.
96 “give me the shofar”: Uzi Eilam, Keshet Eilam (Eilam’s Arc; Tel Aviv: Yediot Aharonot, 2009), 93.
96 Motta watched the nazir: Gur, Har Habayit Beyadenu, 334.
98 Meir Ariel ran down the steps: Moshe Natan, Hamilhamah Al Yerushalayim (The Battle for Jerusalem; Tel Aviv: Otpaz, 1968), 334–35.
CHAPTER 7: “JERUSALEM OF IRON”
100 A doctor from the 55th Brigade: Harel, Sha’ar Ha’arayot, 172–73.
100 “People of Israel!”: Ibid., 169.
101 Some Israelis came to loot: Ibid., 175–80.
104 Along the road were lines: Ibid., 190.
109 To Hanan Porat: Ibid., 192.
109 Accompanied by nurses, the wounded arrived: Ibid., 191.
109 “Many Jews risked their lives”: Gur, Har Habayit Beyadenu, 335.
CHAPTER 8: THE SUMMER OF MERCAZ
113 As the crowds crossed: Jerusalem Post Staff, “200,000 at Western Wall in First Pilgrimage since Dispersion,” Jerusalem Post, June 15, 1967; Amos Ben-Vered, “200,000 Bikru Bakotel Hama’aravi” (200,000 Visited the Western Wall), Ha’aretz, June 15, 1967; Yitzhak Shor, “200,000 Naharu El Kotel Hama’aravi” (200,000 Converged on the Western Wall), Al Hamishmar, June 15, 1967.
114 Despite intense pain: Aviner, Rabenu, 207.
114 Hanan Porat hitched a ride: Amia Lieblich, Yaldei Kfar Etzion (The Children of Kfar Etzion; Jerusalem: Keter, 2006), 375–94; Yochanan Ben-Yaakov, ed., Gush Etzion: 50 Shnot Ma’avak Viytzirah (Gush Etzion: 50 Years of Struggle and Creation; Kfar Etzion: Beit Sefer Sadeh Kfar Etzion, 1978), 307–13.
116 Every summer they attended: Lieblich, Yaldei Kfar Etzion, 261–68.
118 The symbol of that restoration: Haim Hefer, “Hatzanhanim Bokhim” (The Paratroopers Weep), Bamahaneh, June 12, 1967.
122 Hanan read a poetic account: Hanan Porat, Et Ahai Anokhi Mevakesh (I Seek My Brothers; Jerusalem: Sifriyat Beit-El, 1992), 13.
122 A dozen friends: Ben-Yaakov, Gush Etzion, 327.
125 “Before we speak about the moral questions”: Shdemot 29 (Summer 1968): 15–27.
CHAPTER 9: THE KIBBUTZNIKS COME HOME
132 “the metals got switched”: Tamar Ze’evi, “Shuli Nas’ah Tfila, Hatzanhan Ariel Higshimah” (Shuli Sent Forth a Prayer, the Paratrooper Ariel Answered It), Ha’aretz, June 25, 1967.
132 Her conversation with Meir: Ibid.
133 “We wish Meir success”: Niv Mishmarot 428, July 7, 1967.
135 one, about a soldier returning: David Atid (lyrics) and Yair Rosenblum (music), “Hayiti Na’ar”(I Was a Boy), http://shironet.mako.co.il/artist?type=lyrics&lang=1&prfid=281&wrkid=1089.
135 “After urgent consultations with my wife”: “Ha’ish Shehafakh Zahav Lebarzel” (The Man Who Turned Gold Into Iron), La’ishah, December 19, 1967.
136 “red Czars”: Alon Ein Shemer, June 23, 1967.
139 Uri wanted to ask his son: Author’s interview with Uri Adiv.
CHAPTER 10: THE CHILDREN RETURN TO THEIR BORDERS
143 “What do you want, kinderlach?”: Author’s interview with Hanan Porat. Slightly different versions of this meeting appear in several books: Lieblich, Yaldei Kfar Etzion, 388; Gershon Shafat, Gush Emunim (Jerusalem: Sifriyat Beit El, 1995), 27; Gershom Gorenberg, The Accidental Empire (New York: Henry Holt, 2006), 112–13; Haggai Huberman, Keneged Kol Hasikuyim (Against All Odds; n.p.: Sifriyat Netzarim, 2008), 28–29.
143 On September 27, 1967: Ben-Yaakov, Gush Etzion, 329–30; Lieblich, Yaldei Kfar Etzion, 392–93.
144 “Today we have removed the disgrace”: Hatzofeh, September 28, 1967; Gorenberg, The Accidental Empire, 117.
145 One group of interviewees: The missing text was published by Shdemot, Siah Lohamim Biyshivat HaRav Kook (Soldiers’ Talk in the Rav Kook Yeshiva), no. 29 (Spring 1968): 15–28.
147 The first rains: Ben-Yaakov, Gush Etzion, 330–32.
148 Letters of gratitude: Kfar Etzion archives.
150 “History is returning”: Kfar Etzion archives.
151 “Is this where those crazy people came”: Haggai Segal, Ahim Yekarim (Dear Brothers; Jerusalem: Keter, 1987), 21–22.
152 Novelist Moshe Shamir: Ibid., 22.
155 “Okay childhood”: Meir Ariel, Yerushalayim Shel Barzel, record, Hed Artzi, 1967.
CHAPTER 11: ATTRITION
163 Another neighbor eavesdropping: Omri Asenheim, “Ad Hakatzeh” (To the Limit), Ma’ariv, December 24, 2004.
CHAPTER 12: THE INVENTION OF YISRAEL HAREL
186 Yisrael wrote an essay: Yisrael Harel, “Hatvusah Bamilhamah al Hayehudim,” (The Defeat in the War for the Jews), Ha’aretz, September 5, 1967.
187 “A man, a lover”: Natan Alterman, “Beod Erev Yored” (As Evening Falls), in Arbaim Shirim (Forty Poems; Bnei Brak: Hakibbutz Hameuhad, 1970), 65, translated by the author.
187 “There are those more beautiful”: “Nishbati, Eynai” (I Swore, My Eyes), in Alterman, Arbaim Shirim, 5, translated by the author.
189 Yisrael wrote about: Yisrael Harel, “Banim Shavim Ligvulam” (Sons Return to Their Borders), Zot Ha’aretz, April 26, 1968.
189 In Café Casit: Batya Carmiel, Batei Café Shel Tel Aviv, 1920–1980 (The Cafes of Tel Aviv, 1920–1980; Eretz Yisrael Museum and Yad Yitzhak Ben-Zvi, 2007), 231–56; Meir Suissa, director, Kol Anshei Casit (Casit—Not Just a Cafe), 2010.
CHAPTER 14: ACROSS THE BORDER
208 Daoud was a self-taught political theorist: Yitzhak Rubin, director and producer, Udi Adiv–Daoud Turki, 2001.
209 Chinese-style cultural revolution: Eitan Haber and Yossi Melman, Hameraglim (The Spies; Tel Aviv: Yediot Aharonot, 2002), 169.
210 “Are you going to meet”: Ibid., 176.
211 Udi’s Syrian passport: Ibid., 177.
212 “We have many enemies”: Ibid., 177.
212 In the quarter’s police station: Ibid., 178.
212 Write about your life: Ibid., 178–79.
214 He described his trip to Syria: Ibid., 187.
215 Hashomer Hatzair leader Yaakov Hazan: Al Hamishmar, December 17, 1972.
216 Uri tried to meet with Hazan: Ze’ev Zahor, Hazan—Tnuat Hayim (Hazan—A Biography; Jerusalem: Yad Ben Zvi, 1997), 246.
216 “Off they went”: Haber and Melman, Hameraglim, 188.
217 “Did you serve”: David Zohar and Yosef Wachsman, “Hashofet LeDan Vered: ‘Tireh Eikh She’ata Mistabekh’ . . . Adiv: ‘Hitkavanti Lemahapekhat Hamonim—Lo Leteror’ ” (The Judge to Dan Vered: “Look How Much Trouble You’re Getting Into” . . . “Adiv: I Meant a Revolution of the Masses—Not Terrorism,’ ” Ma’ariv, March 6, 1973; Mordechai Ben-Tal, Meir Shoshani, and Aryeh Meir, “ ‘Yesh Lehapil Hamishtar Hatzioni’ ” (“The Zionist Regime Must Be Overthrown”), Davar, March 6, 1973.
218 “Do you know what people say”: David Zohar and Yosef Wachsman, “ ‘Od Pesha Tzioni’—Hegivu Hane’eshamim al Hapalat Hamatos” (“One More Zionist Crime,” Said the Defendants About the Downing of the Plane), Ma’ariv, February 27, 1973.
219 “I feel I’m going to prison”: Meir Shoshani and Aryeh Meir, “Turki veAdiv Le’ 17 Shnot Ma’asar” (Turki and Adiv Given 17 Years in Prison), Davar, March 27, 1973.
CHAPTER 15: BRAVE-HEARTED MEN
229 reservists in the 55th Brigade: the 55th Brigade was now known as the 247th Brigade. The brigade’s battalions also changed their numbers: the 28th became the 416th, the 66th became the 564th, and the 71st became the 565th. For the sake of clarity in this narrative, the old numbers have been kept. (In 2010, the original numbers of the brigade and its battalions were reinstated.)
235 “Don’t worry, I’m being careful”: Talma Aligon-Roz (lyrics) and Kobi Oshrat (music), “Ein Lakh Mah Lidog” (You Have Nothing to Worry About), http://shironet.mako.co.il/artist?type=lyrics&lang=1&prfid=780&wrkid=4450.
237 But how would they get to the canal?: In 1970 Arik had founded a reconnaissance battalion, the first in the IDF, that concentrated the 55th Brigade’s elite scouts units. The battalion, commanded by Arik, became a model for other IDF infantry brigades. The reconnaissance battalion was supposed to lead the crossing of the canal, but lacked sufficient vehicles to reach it.
237 commander of the 71st Battalion: Abraham Rabinovich, The Yom Kippur War: The Epic Encounter That Transformed the Middle East (New York: Schocken, 2004), 404; Yisrael Harel, ed., Abirei Lev (Brave-Hearted Men, Keren Hatzanhanim, n.p., n.d.), 42.
240 assault on the so-called Chinese Farm: In the first night of the operation in the Chinese Farm, the 14th Armored Brigade, under the command of Amnon Reshef, lost 120 soldiers. Another 62 were wounded. No IDF brigade had ever suffered such losses in so short a time. The following night, the 890th Brigade, the paratroopers’ brigade of draftees, lost 41 soldiers and over 100 wounded.
240 “My guys are fighting there”: Rabinovich, The Yom Kippur War, 362; unpublished account written by Hanan Erez.
241 The first six boats: Harel, Abirei Lev , 32.
242 Arik radioed Danny: Ibid., 32.
244 “God’s Little Corner”: Ibid, 36.
246 It was the eve of Simchat Torah: Harel, Abirei Lev, 45.
CHAPTER 16: “OUR FORCES PASSED A QUIET NIGHT IN SUEZ”
264 “An Invitation to Weeping”: Igeret, November 20, 1973.
266 “Be a friend to me”: Yoram Taharlev (lyrics) and Yair Rosenblum (music), “Heyeh Li Haver, Heyeh Li Ah” (Be My Friend, Be My Brother), http://www.taharlev.com/songs_selection_song.asp?id=77.
267 A winter night: Shafat, Gush Emunim, 27–33.
268 On a freezing windy morning: Motti Ashkenazi, with Baruch Nevo and Nurit Ashkenazi, Ha’erev Beshesh Tifrotz Milhamah (War Will Break Out This Evening at Six; Bnei Brak: Hakibbutz Hameuhad, 2003), 151–63.
269 Yisrael Harel was organizing a “university”: Harel, Abirei Lev, 74.
270 The next day: Ibid., 74, 76.
270 “We, the paratroopers’ brigade”: Ibid., preface.
CHAPTER 17: THE HOME FRONT
272 thousands of demonstrators: Ashkenazi, Ha’erev Beshesh Tifrotz Milhamah, 194.
273 He awoke before dawn: text of manifesto in Shafat, Gush Emunim, appendix; Gorenberg, Accidental Empire, 267.
274 “Eight princes of men”: Elyashiv Reichner, Be’emunato: Sipuro Shel Harav Yehudah Amital (In His Faith: The Story of Rabbi Yehudah Amital; Tel Aviv: Yediot Aharonot, 2008), 82.
275 If a nuclear war were to happen: Rabbi Yehudah Amital, Hama’alot Mima’amakim (Ascent from the Depths; Jerusalem-Alon Shvut: Agudat Yeshivat Har Etzion, 1974), 37.
280 The activists had sent: Shafat, Gush Emunim, 65.
280 They came to a field of grass: Ibid., 67.
281 Sharon, friends with Rabin: Gorenberg, Accidental Empire, 284.
282 He approached Rabbi Zvi Yehudah: Shafat, Gush Emunim, 68.
282 General Yona Efrat: Segal, Ahim Yekarim, 29.
282 One by one the squatters: Ibid., 29; Gorenberg, Accidental Empire, 285.
CHAPTER 18: “END OF THE ORANGE SEASON”
288 One autumn night: Shafat, Gush Emunim, 113.
289 “satisfy their passion”: Rachel Katznelson Shazar, ed., The Plough Woman: Memoirs of the Pioneer Women of Palestine, trans. Maurice Samuel (New York: Herzl Press, 1975), 137–38.
290 “Why don’t you establish”: Shafat, Gush Emunim, 159; Segal, Ahim Yekarim, 34; Gorenberg, The Accidental Empire, 306.
292 On Passover eve: Liron Negler-Cohen, “Ve’abba Hozer Veomer: Meir Ariel Shelo Hikartem” (And Dad Says It Again: The Unknown Meir Ariel), Ynet, September 15, 2011.
293 “Look, Shimon”: Shafat, Gush Emunim, 160; Segal, Ahim Yekarim, 34–35.
294 Supporters appeared with spring beds: Shafat, Gush Emunim, 160.
295 As he approached Ramle Prison: Marcus Klingberg with Michael Sfard, Hameragel Ha’aharon (The Last Spy; Tel Aviv: Sifriyat Ma’ariv, 2007), 241–42.
296 During one evacuation: Shafat, Gush Emunim, 153.
297 quoted the book of the Macabees: 1 Macabees, 15:34.
298 The morning of November 30: Shafat, Gush Emunim, 181–87.
300 Sympathetic kibbutzniks brought an oak: Ibid., 193.
300 Young people danced: Ibid., 199–200, 217–18; Segal, Ahim Yekarim, 33; Gorenberg, The Accidental Empire, 334–35.
306 Teach me Torah: Meir Ariel, Brakhot Vehespedim (Blessings and Eulogies; Pardes Hanna-Karkur: Ariel Hafakot, 2005), 66–67.
309 “And so, Avital”: Eli Alon, “Avital Kemutzag Muzeoni” (Avital as a Museum Item), Hashavuah Bakibbutz Ha’artzi, May 23, 1975, 14–15.
311 Hanan Porat spoke: Yehoshu’a Bitsur, “‘Ofra El Pritsat Derekh’ Ne’emar Behagigat Yom Hahuledet” (‘Ofra Toward a Breakthrough,’ It Was Said at Its Birthday Celebration), Ma’ariv, May 10, 1976.
311 “Across from the entrance to Ofra”: Yigal Lev, “Hashorashim Shel Ofra” (The Roots of Ofra), Ma’ariv, May 21, 1976.
CHAPTER 19: A NEW ISRAEL
319 the Likud—“not more and not less”: Israel Television, May 17, 1977.
320 “If this is the people’s decision”: Israel Television, May 18, 1977, interviewed by Yaakov Achimeir.
322 “Several weeks have passed”: Avital Geva, “Le’an Lehafnot et Hatotahim?” (Where Should the Cannons Be Aimed?), Alon Ein Shemer, July 8, 1977.
322 Begin invited Hanan: Shafat, Gush Emunim, 318–19.
323 “Aha, here you are!”: Yehuda Avner, “Bygone Days: The Night Sadat Came,” Jerusalem Post, November 17, 2007.
324 “In all sincerity”: Statement to the Knesset by President Sadat, November 20, 1977, Knesset website, www.knesset.gov.il/process/docs/sadatspeech_eng.htm.
324 “It must go on”: Israel Television, November 21, 1977.
325 “I was born into the dream”: Uzi Hitman, “Noladti Lashalom” (I Was Born for Peace), http://shironet.mako.co.il/artist?type=lyrics&lang=1&prfid=778&wrkid=2282.
326 On Saturday afternoon, April 1, 1978: Helga Dudman, “Politics and Manners,” Jerusalem Post, April 5, 1978.
329 “I prefer to be called by my name”: Smadar Shir, “Bob Dylan HaYisraeli” (The Israeli Bob Dylan), Ma’ariv, May 3, 1979, 40.
332 On a hot July afternoon: Yosef Tsuriel, “Mizbe’ah Verashei Egel Behafganat Omanim BeHevron” (An Altar and Calves’ Heads at Artists’ Demonstration in Hebron), Ma’ariv, July 11, 1979; “Hashalom Zakuk Lelohamim” (Peace Needs Fighters), Alon Ein Shemer, July 13, 1979; author’s interview with Yuval Danieli.
335 “500 Against 350,000”: Avi Rosenfeld, “500 Mul 350,000” (500 Against 350,0000), Nekudah, December 28, 1979.
335 “The key to defending Ashkelon”: “Sharon: Nakim Kehilah Yehudit Hazakah Birtzu’at Aza” (Sharon: We’ll Establish a Strong Jewish Community in the Gaza Strip), Nekudah, January 11, 1980.
339 Shabbtai Ben-Dov: Segal, Ahim Yekarim, 43–45.
340 Underground members stole explosives: Segal, Ahim Yekarim, 117–19; Etzion, interview.
343 “A query: To Whom?”: Shlomo Burlass, “She’iltah” (A Query), Alon Ein Shemer, February 27, 1981.
344 “I see this as a personal affront”: Avital Geva, “Ha’im Yukam Haheikhal Al Horvot Gan Hayerek” (Will the Sports Center Be Built on the Ruins of the Green Garden?), Alon Ein Shemer, January 9, 1981.
CHAPTER 20: BUILDING DIFFERENT ISRAELS
349 “They ask me, ‘Why do you work late’ ”: Avi Valentin, “Hagvul Hem Hashamayim” (The Limit Is the Sky), Ha’aretz, October 30, 1981.
351 There can be no settlement without land: “Glalei Izim Vehashe’elah Hayehudit (Goat Droppings and the Jewish Question), Nekudah, February 22, 1980; “Bimkom Ma’amar Rashi” (Instead of an Editorial), Nekudah, March 21, 1980; “Bimkom Ma’amar Rashi—Shvitat Hara’av” (Instead of an Editorial–The Hunger Strike), Nekudah, May 16, 1980.
353 “Stop this hunger strike”: Harel, interview; Shafat, Gush Emunim, 352–53.
355 “It happened after prayers”: Segal, Ahim Yekarim, 70–71.
356 “It isn’t reasonable that Jewish hands”: “Bimkom Ma’amar Rashi—Ha’ikvot Molikhim El Vaitzman” (Instead of an Editorial: The Trail Leads to Weizman), Nekudah, June 13, 1980.
356 “Who Harmed Coexistence?”: Nekudah, June 13, 1980.
358 The stage was set: “Hahlatot Ve’idat Moetzet Hayishuv” (Decisions of the Conference of the Settlement Council), Nekudah, January 9,1980, 4.
359 “Any foreign administration will necessarily”: Ibid.
CHAPTER 21: HURBAN
361 It was an early summer evening in 1981: Yossi Klein, “Journeys Into the New Israel,” Village Voice, October 26, 1982, 22–26.
363 “I had never heard the word ‘chah-chahim’”: M. N. P. Michelson, “‘Ish Lo Paga Be’edot Hamizrah Kmo Hama’arakh’ ” (No One Hurt the Mizrahim as Much as the Labor Party), Yediot Aharonot, June 29, 1981.
364 “some American millionaire”: “Se’arah Be’ikvot Divrei Begin Al Hakibbutznik Hamitnaheg Kemillyoner” (Storm Over Begin’s Comments About the Kibbutznik Acting Like a Millionaire), Yediot Aharonot, October 1, 1981.
364 Yes, Mr. Begin: No author cited, Anashim Veshorashim—Sipuro Shel Kibbutz (People and Roots—The Story of a Kibbutz; Tel Aviv: Photo Opest Omanim Meuchadim, n.d.).
370 Thousands of mourners: Aviner, Rabenu, 310–11.
373 “We must not injure”: Segal, Ahim Yekarim, 127, 130.
373 “In another few weeks”: Aliza Weisman, Hapinui (The Evacuation, Jerusalem: Sifriyat Beit El, 1990), 236.
374 A crowd gathered at a roadblock: Ibid., 267; Haggai Segal, Yamit, Sof (Yamit, The End; Jerusalem: Sifriyat Beit El, 1999), 249.
374 A song by Naomi Shemer: “Al Kol Eleh” (For All These), http://shironet.mako.co.il/artist?type=lyrics&lang=1&prfid=738&wrkid=4052.
375 “Following the first day of Passover”: Segal, Yamit, Sof, 87.
375 Students from Yamit’s military yeshiva: Ya’akov Ariel, “Yoman Yamit” (Yamit Diary), Nekudah, April 5, 1985.
377 Ten activists from a far-right fringe group: Weisman, Hapinui, 337; Segal, Yamit, Sof, 18, 113–14.
377 “The evacuation has begun”: Weisman, Hapinui, 346.
378 General Chaim Erez: Ibid., 325.
378 The last to be evacuated: Segal, Yamit, Sof, 114.
379 “I believe that the sacrifice: Ibid., 234
379 “Don’t start up again”: Segal, Ahim Yekarim, 135.
379 Ezekiel’s vision: Ezekiel, 37:1–14.
379 Hanan read aloud a list: Ibid., 135.
CHAPTER 22: THE FORTY-FIRST KILOMETER
388 “We Don’t Want to Die in Beirut”: Yehudah Kaveh, script and director, Tkumah (Resurrection) (16)—Sedek Babayit (Schism at Home), editor and producer of the series Gideon Drori.
390 One Phalangist in spiked shoes: Ze’ev Schiff and Ehud Ya’ari, Israel’s Lebanon War, trans. Ina Friedman (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1984), 264.
391 Hours before the rally began: Michal Yudelman, “400,000 Rally to Denounce Gov’t,” Jerusalem Post, September 26, 1982; Yosef Valter and Yitzhak Ben-Horin, “Me’ot Alfei Mafginim Tavu Hakira Rishmit, Yetziat Tzahal Milvanon, Piturei Begin VeSharon” (Hundreds of Thousands of Demonstrators Demanded a Commission of Inquiry, the IDF’s Withdrawal from Lebanon, the Resignation of Begin and Sharon), Ma’ariv, September 26, 1982.
392 Ten Days of Penitence: Reichner, Be’emunato, 154–55.
395 he had summoned this unusual meeting: Hanan Porat, “Hapulmus Im Harav Amital Al Eretz Yisrael” (The Debate with Rabbi Amital Over the Land of Israel), Nekudah, August 28, 1983; Yehudah Amital, “Bemilkud Hashlemut” (In the Trap of Wholeness), Nekudah, December 24, 1982; Yoel Bin-Nun, “E Efshar Lerabe’a et Hama’agal (It’s Impossible to Square the Circle), Nekudah, January 14, 1983; Porat, Et Ahai Anokhi Mevakesh, 93–97; Reichner, Be’emunato, 158–59.
CHAPTER 23: CIVIL WARS
402 “PLO!” some shouted: Shlomit Hareven, Yamim Rabim—Autobiographia (Many Days—An Autobiography; Tel Aviv: Bavel, 2002), 127–32.
403 “Mourn and weep!!”: Yoel Bin-Nun, “Velo Yishafekh Dam Naki Bekerev Artzekha” (And Innocent Blood Shall Not Be Shed in Your Land), Nekudah, February 27, 1983.
404 Yisrael published Yoel’s accusatory lament: The murderer turned out to be a ne’er-do-well named Yonah Avrushmi, who had lived temporarily in Ofra. A settler, taking pity on Avrushmi, had offered him employment in his workshop. The media and the public didn’t consider Avrushmi a settler, and the Ofra community wasn’t held responsible for him.
408 A profile of Meir: Aviv Havron, “Zamar, Kmo Parpar” (A Singer, Like a Butterfly), Koteret Rashit, April 21, 1983, 32–33, 51.
412 A photographer from the magazine: Ksafim, July 4–10, 1983.
414 “What do you think about removing the Dome”: Author’s interviews with Bin-Nun and Yehudah Etzion (a different version appears in Segal, Ahim Yekarim, 112–13).
415 “my dark, dogmatic era”: Udi Adiv to Leah Leshem, December 15, 1984.
415 “In order to raise the Jews”: Adiv to Leshem, October 7, 1984.
416 “the luck of your life”: Adiv to Leshem, February 27, 1983.
CHAPTER 24: IDOLATROUS FIRE
417 When Shabbat ended, Yisrael phoned: Harel, interview. A slightly different version of this conversation appears in Segal, Ahim Yekarim, 171.
418 An angry Yisrael: Yisrael confided to journalist Tom Segev his suspicion that the plot to blow up the buses may have been a Shin Bet provocation. Segev published Yisrael’s speculation as part of a larger interview with him, in the weekly Koteret Rashit, on February 5, 1984. In a letter to the editor that appeared in the following week’s edition of Koteret Rashit, Yisrael noted that he hadn’t intended to accuse the Shin Bet and had been merely speculating with a colleague, and complained that Segev had in effect betrayed his trust.
418 “We have to face the enormity”: Segal, Ahim Yekarim, 175.
420 The phone rang: Segal, Ahim Yekarim, 180–81.
420 “You have brought idolatrous fire”: Ibid., 225–26.
421 Srulik, a beloved cartoon figure: Dosh, Ma’ariv, May 6, 1984.
422 “We always have to think about being moral!”: Robert Rosenberg, “Levinger Remanded for Two More Days,” Jerusalem Post, May 23, 1984, 1.
423 “Failure to temper the verdict”: “Haninah, Bimkom Ma’amar Rashi” (Pardon, Instead of an Editorial), Nekudah, July 26, 1985.
425 “Waiting for Mashiah”: Shalom Hanoch, “Mehakim Lamashiah,” http://shironet.mako.co.il/artist?type=lyrics&lang=1&prfid=960&wrkid=2091.
CHAPTER 25: NEW BEGINNINGS
427 “What are your plans?”: Yitzhak Rubin, director and producer, Udi Adiv—Daoud Turki, 2001.
428 “an act which can’t be explained”: Amiram Cohen, “Hakeleh Hakaful Shel Udi Adiv” (The Double Prison of Udi Adiv), Al Hamishmar, May 24, 1985.
434 They set out during the harvest holiday: Ido Sela, director, Masa Habhirot Shel Meir Ariel (Meir Ariel’s Election Campaign) (Ariel Hotzaot, 1987).
436 “I dare to say we have no real reason”: Niv Mishmarot, November 29, 1987.
437 David Grossman, the Israeli novelist: David Grossman, The Yellow Wind, trans. Haim Watzman (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1988).
CHAPTER 26: UNDER SIEGE
441 “We are prevented”: Ofra archives.
445 “Some young people”: Gorenberg, The Accidental Empire, 333.
447 “[We must] redeem the Mount from its shame”: Yossi Klein Halevi, “Coming Home—An Underground Leader Returns,” Long Island Jewish World, March 31–April 6, 1989.
449 Writing in Nekudah: Yoel Bin-Nun, “Rak Haskamah Leumit Ta’atzor et Ha’hidarderut Lemilhamah Kolelet” (Only National Consensus Will Stop the Slide Toward Total War), Nekudah, February 26, 1988.
CHAPTER 27: A NEW ISRAEL, AGAIN
463 July 13, 1992: The letters written by Yoel Bin-Nun to Yitzhak Rabin that appear in chapters 27 and 28 are from Yoel’s archives.
464 Gideon Ofrat, preeminent curator: Gideon Ofrat, “Yomanei Geva,” in Gideon Ofrat, ed., Avital Geva: Hamamah (Avital Geva: Greenhouse) (1993): 15–29).
470 The metal outlines of a greenhouse: Itamar Shweika, director, Nechemia Sal, producer, Melafefonim BeVenetziah II (Cucumbers in Venice II) (Ulpanei Kibbutz Barkai, 1993).
472 “Leave me alone”: Live broadcast from the opening of the Biennale, Israel TV, Channel 2, June 9,1993.
474 Do you light a fire on Shabbat?: Liora Hacohen, “Az Nathil Kol Yom Lehitpalel” (So We’ll Start to Pray Every Day), Ma’ariv, March 18, 1994.
CHAPTER 28: ALMOST NORMAL
481 a drawing of a dove: Yediot Aharonot (Mamon section), September 15, 1993.
483 “the government of evil”: “Bimkom Ma’amar Rashi, Hamahaneh Hu Tahor” (Instead of an Editorial, The Camp Is Pure), Nekudah, July 1994, 14.
489 “repulsive act”: “Bimkom Ma’amar Rashi, Vehayah Mahanenu Tahor” (Instead of an Editorial, And Our Camp Shall Be Pure), Nekudah, March 1994, 14.
492 “Everything! . . . This approach”: Yoel Bin-Nun, “Kol Hanotesh Beyamim Eleh Hu Arik” (Everyone Who Defects in This Time Is a Deserter), Nekudah, May 1994, 32–35.
493 For a man violating: Joseph Alpher, And the Wolf Shall Dwell with the Wolf (unpublished translation of the Hebrew work, Vegar Ze’ev Im Ze’ev: Hamitnahalim Vehafalestinim; Tel Aviv: Hakibbutz Hameuhad, 2001), no page cited.
496 In an old country house: Alpher, And the Wolf Shall Dwell with the Wolf, no page cited.
506 Sensing a threat: Haggai Huberman, Hanan Porat—Sippur Hayav (Hanan Porat—The Story of His Life; Tel Aviv: Yediot Aharonot, 2013), 260–62; Nadav Shragai, Al Em Haderekh: Sippuro shel Kever Rahel (At the Crossroads: The Story of Rachel’s Tomb; Jerusalem: She’arim Leheker Yerushalayim, 2008), 198–99.
506 While waiting to enter: Huberman, Hanan Porat, 262–63; Shragai, Al Em Haderekh, 207.
CHAPTER 29: CAREENING TOWARD THE CENTER
512 The emergency meeting : “Mismakh: Kenes Heshbon Hanefesh” (Document: The Assembly of Self-Reckoning), Nekudah, December 1995, 58–65.
521 In May 1997: Eitan Oren, director, Mabat Sheni, June 6, 1997.
523 He kept a detailed journal: Meir Ariel’s unpublished journal, courtesy of Menachem Regev.
523 “I need hashish to exist”: Zvi Gilat, “Meir Ariel: Homer Meshubah” (Meir Ariel: Excellent Stuff), Ma’ariv, April 4, 1997.
524 “Meir Ariel Goes Wild”: Tzachi Cohen, “Meir Ariel Mishtolel” (Meir Ariel Goes Wild), Yediot Aharonot (Zmanim Moderniyim), August 12, 1998.
524 “for hurting you, dear homosexuals”: Meir’s letter to Hazman Havarod quoted in Yuval Karni, “Hazamar Meir Ariel Mevakesh Slicha Mehahomosexualim” (The Singer Meir Ariel Asks Forgiveness from the Homosexuals), Yediot Aharonot, October 7, 1998.
526 “Meir lived, suffered, and sang his loves”: David Atid, “Dvarim Al Kivro Shel Meir Ariel BeMishmarot” (Words Spoken at the Grave of Meir Ariel in Mishmarot), Koreh Bamoshavah, July 23, 1999.
530 an ad in the newspaper Ha’aretz: Ha’aretz, July 28, 2000.