The Rabin Memoirs
Yitzhak Rabin
This is the personal record of his outstanding military and political career of the Jerusalem-born Israeli leader who became a major world leader in the 30 years he served the State of Israel. As chief of staff of the Israel Defense Forces, ambassador to the United States, and Israel’s prime minister, he played a dynamic role in the Jewish state’s development. In this candid memoir, Rabin reveals his own part in the most important military and diplomatic events in Israel’s tumultuous history and provides vivid, close-up portraits of such major American and Israeli figures as Ben-Gurion, Meir, Dayan, Kissinger and Nixon.
Rabin recalls his early years as a Palmach com-mander during the British Mandate and provides little-known details of the War of Independence. Rising through the ranks, he became chief of staff in 1964. He provides a lucid, detailed account of the critical decisions that made him a national hero in the Six Day War.
In 1968, he left the military to become Israeli Ambassador to the United States. He describes how he, during the next five years, helped to influence and strengthen our policy toward Israel. In 1974 he succeeded Golda Meir as prime minister. In the book he describes his participation in Henry Kissinger’s shuttle diplomacy, which resulted in the controversial 1975 interim agreement with Egypt – a pact that laid the groundwork for Egyptian President Anwar Sadat’s historic trip to Israel.
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