People and Events
Who sat around the table, and which events shaped the period. Each entry links to the moments on this site where it appears, and to Wikipedia for further reading.
People
The people who appear in his story. Roles are given as they were at the time.
Golda Meir
Prime Minister, 1969–1974. Gazit headed her office.
Yitzhak Rabin
Prime Minister, 1974–1977; earlier Deputy Chief of Staff and ambassador in Washington.
Henry Kissinger
U.S. National Security Adviser and Secretary of State.
Gunnar Jarring
Swedish diplomat, UN envoy to the Middle East, 1967–1971.
William Rogers
U.S. Secretary of State, 1969–1973.
Gideon Rafael
Director-General of the Foreign Ministry in the early 1970s.
Yigal Allon
Deputy Prime Minister, and Foreign Minister in Rabin’s government.
Abba Eban
Foreign Minister, 1966–1974.
Simcha Dinitz
Israel’s ambassador in Washington from 1973.
Aharon Yariv
Major General, former head of Military Intelligence and adviser to the Prime Minister.
Meir Rosenne
Legal adviser to the Foreign Ministry.
Joseph Sisco
Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs.
Harold Saunders
U.S. National Security Council staff.
Ismail Fahmy
Egypt’s Foreign Minister.
Anwar Sadat
President of Egypt, 1970–1981.
Richard Nixon
President of the United States, 1969–1974.
Gerald Ford
President of the United States, 1974–1977.
John F. Kennedy
President of the United States, 1961–1963. Gazit wrote a book on his policy.
David Ben-Gurion
Israel’s first Prime Minister.
King Abdallah I
King of Jordan until his assassination in 1951. Gazit researched the contacts with him.
King Hussein
King of Jordan, 1952–1999.
Teddy Kollek
Mayor of Jerusalem, 1965–1993.
Jean-Paul Sartre
French philosopher and writer.
Moshe Dayan
Defence Minister, 1967–1974, and Foreign Minister, 1977–1979.
Shimon Peres
Defence Minister in Rabin’s government, later Prime Minister and President.
Shlomo Gazit
His brother. IDF Major General and head of Military Intelligence, 1974–1978.
Events
The historical events his work touched, from 1948 to 1978.
The 1948 War
The battles for Jerusalem, al-Qastal and the Jewish Quarter.
The debate over the West Bank, 1948–1949
Why Israel did not try to take the West Bank at the end of the 1948 war. Gazit wrote on this in 1989.
The Partial Test Ban Treaty, 1963
Israel acceded to the treaty; Gazit signed on its behalf in Washington.
The Six-Day War, 1967
Afterwards the Soviet Union broke off relations, and Jerusalem was united.
The Jarring mission, 1967–1971
The UN mediation effort based on Resolution 242. Gazit was in charge of the file at the Foreign Ministry.
The War of Attrition, 1967–1970
Ended in a ceasefire in August 1970.
The Yom Kippur War, 1973
Gazit headed the Prime Minister’s office during and after the war.
The Agranat Commission
The commission of inquiry into the war. Gazit testified before it.
The Geneva Conference, 1973
The peace conference that opened in December 1973.
The Egypt–Israel disengagement agreement, 1974
Signed on 18 January 1974.
The Israel–Syria disengagement agreement, 1974
Signed on 31 May 1974.
The Sinai Interim Agreement, 1975
Signed in Geneva on 4 September 1975. Gazit led the delegation.
The Abu Daoud affair, 1977
His release in Paris led to Ambassador Gazit’s recall for consultations.
The Coastal Road massacre, 1978
Israel then launched Operation Litani.
The Camp David Accords, 1978
Signed during his years in Paris; they led to the 1979 peace treaty with Egypt.