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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Arcade Publishing,
[2015]
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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.
