An improbable friendship the remarkable lives of Israeli Ruth Dayan and Palestinian Raymonda Tawil and their forty-year peace mission

"An Improbable Friendship is the dual biography of Israeli Ruth Dayan, now ninety-seven, who was Moshe Dayan's wife for thirty-seven years, and Palestinian journalist Raymonda Tawil, Yasser Arafat's mother-in-law, now seventy-four. It reveals for the first time the two women's surprising and secret...

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Main Author: David, Anthony, 1962- (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Arcade Publishing, [2015]
Edition:First edition.
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Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgments
  • Prologue: A Secret Story
  • Part I 1917-1956: Of This Tormented Soil
  • Chapter 1: "The Happiest Day of My Life"
  • Chapter 2: The Syrian Prince
  • Chapter 3: Night Squad
  • Chapter 4: The "Cripple"
  • Chapter 5: A Christmas Tale
  • Chapter 6: Civil War
  • Chapter 7: Fall of Haifa
  • Chapter 8: Hotel Zion
  • Chapter 9: Villa Lea
  • Chapter 10: Married to the State
  • Chapter 11: Ave Maria
  • Chapter 12: Women of Valor
  • Chapter 13: The Beauty Contest
  • Chapter 14: "Maskiteers"
  • Chapter 15: A Mission in Life
  • Chapter 16: Tristesse
  • Chapter 17: Moshe's War
  • Part II 1957-1970: Two Friends
  • Chapter 18: Punished by Love
  • Chapter 19: Mandelbaum Gate
  • Chapter 20: Under the Shekhina's Wing
  • Chapter 21: New Face in the Mirror
  • Chapter 22: Reverence for Life
  • Chapter 23: A Man Problem
  • Chapter 24: The Women's Strike
  • Chapter 25: Six Days
  • Chapter 26: The Dayan-asty
  • Chapter 27: Open Bridges
  • Chapter 28: The Return
  • Chapter 29: The Emperor
  • Chapter 30: In the Bosom of My Country
  • Chapter 31: This Is Not a Democracy!
  • Part III 1970-1995: Dialogue
  • Chapter 32: St. Luke's Hospital
  • Chapter 33: Honor Killing
  • Chapter 34: Umm al-Mu'in
  • Chapter 35: "Wrath of God"
  • Chapter 36: L'pozez Akol (Blow Up Everything)
  • Chapter 37: Mission Renewed
  • Chapter 38: "Guns and Olive Branches"
  • Chapter 39: Neve Shalom
  • Chapter 40: The Quest
  • Chapter 41: House Arrest
  • Chapter 42: The Comedians
  • Chapter 43: Crossing Boundaries
  • Chapter 44: The Good Witch
  • Chapter 45: Militants for Peace
  • Chapter 46: Ms.
  • Chapter 47: The Tomb of God
  • Chapter 48: A Furious Aura
  • Chapter 49: Borderline Case
  • Chapter 50: Beyond the Walls
  • Chapter 51: The Bomb
  • Chapter 52: A Debt of Love
  • Chapter 53: "Better a Living Woman Than a Dead Hero"
  • Chapter 54: Uprising
  • Chapter 55: Living with History
  • Chapter 56: Ring of Fire
  • Chapter 57: Oslo
  • Chapter 58: Life According to Agfa
  • Chapter 59: Separation
  • Chapter 60: "I Cry for You"
  • Part IV 1995-the present: Walls
  • Chapter 61: Three Kisses
  • Chapter 62: Suha
  • Chapter 63: The Angel
  • Epilogue: Great Wall of Zion
  • Notes
  • Index.