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- HomeThe opening, four moments, the map and the journey
- A short introductionFive moments, in five minutes
- Life & timesEvery station, from 1922 to 2016
- Public serviceThe diplomatic moments, from London to Paris
- Voice & imageFilms, interviews and testimony
- WritingsHis books and articles, and where to get them
- Family & photographsThe album and family memory
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- The places of his lifeA map and a journey between 11 places
- Roles and dates
- Four facts in numbers
- The Washington years1960–1965, from the cables
- The ambassador in Paris1976–1979
- In his own wordsQuotations from interviews
- The Agranat Commission testimonyQuotations, topics and pages
- Seen up closeA portrait, by those who worked beside him
- People and eventsWho was who
- The family album
Sources and research
- Sources & creditsEvery source, by type
- Eight documentsAnd why they matter
- Israel State ArchivesA guide to the files
- The reading roomFiles read in full, by file and by date
- An index of 745 filesSearchable, with a link to each file
- Golda Meir collectionInterviews and papers
- All the books and articles
- Classroom kitTwo lessons from primary sources
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The stations of his life (24)
- 1922 Beginnings in Istanbul
- The 1930s Home, language and a new country
- 1936–1937 Fourteen, and in the underground
- 1943 Study and the Haganah
- December 1947 First posting in the Quarter
- 1948 Qastal and the road to Jerusalem
- May 1948 Wounded in the Jewish Quarter
- Spring 1949 From combat to documenting the war
- 1949 Entering the foreign service
- 1959–1960 The Jews of Morocco
- 1960–1965 Washington
- 1965–1967 The Middle East department
- 1966 A policy assessment of Iran
- 1966–1967 The skies over the Straits of Tiran
- 1967–1972 Adviser, immigrant absorption, and back to the Foreign Ministry
- 1971–1973 Confidential contacts
- 1972–1974 At the centre of public service
- June 1973 Willy Brandt in Jerusalem
- 1974–1975 From Golda to Rabin
- 1975 The interim agreement with Egypt
- 1975–1979 Israel’s ambassador to France
- From 1980 From diplomacy to research
- 1982–1985 A bridge to American Jewry
- 2016 A story that stays with us
Moments in the service of Israel (20)
- 1954 · London The southern periphery: contacts with Sudan
- Spring 1961 · Washington The first visit to the Dimona reactor
- 1961–1962 · Washington Security assurances and the Hawk talks
- 1966, 1978 · Jerusalem and Paris Understanding the relationship with Iran
- 1962–1974 · Washington and Jerusalem Thinking about Jerusalem, with Teddy Kollek
- 1970–1971 · Jerusalem The Jarring file: his testimony in retrospect
- 1970–1971 Facing the American embassy
- 21 October 1971 · Jerusalem A near-verbatim record
- 1971–1975 A confidential channel to Moscow
- 25 September 1973 · The Mossad facility at Glilot At the table with King Hussein
- 5–30 October 1973 · Jerusalem and Tel Aviv Between Jerusalem and Washington: the war
- 22 October 1973 · Herzliya A garbled message, on the day of the ceasefire
- 1–2 November 1973 · Washington With Golda in the Oval Office
- December 1973 · Jerusalem Before the Geneva Conference: the practical questions
- 15 January 1974 · Jerusalem Between the hot soup and the next draft
- 28 May 1974 · Jerusalem Toward the decision on the Syrian agreement
- 1974–1975 · The White House Alongside Rabin at the White House
- March 1975 · Jerusalem “Too sensible”: in Kissinger’s shuttle
- September 1975 · Geneva The signing in Geneva: an agreement with Egypt
- 1976–1979 · Paris Ambassador in Paris: three crises
State Archives files read in full (18)
- May 1962 Shimon Peres’s visit to Washington: the report to the Foreign Minister
- 1963–1982 “There is no short road to peace”: the papers he deposited at the Davis Institute
- 27 October 1964 “The decision to evade was purely German”: a letter on Germany
- July 1970, September 1971 Two visits to Washington: questions, not statements
- December 1970–January 1972 The Jarring file: “on no account should we settle for passivity”
- 1973–1975 The Prime Minister’s personal channels: Bonn and Tehran
- 1973–1975 The twelve war summaries he wrote
- 1973–1975 The messages between the Prime Minister and the US President
- November 1973 With Golda Meir in Washington: the records of the talks and his “points for a summary”
- January–February 1974 The channel from Washington: “To: Gazit – addressee only”
- 1971–1974 The senior team he headed, and kept secret
- March–November 1974 The disengagement with Syria: the papers he prepared
- 1974–1975 The personal file: a Director-General’s letters
- June 1974 President Nixon’s visit: what the Prime Minister would say
- 1973–1975 The Gazit team: preparing for a comprehensive settlement
- 22–28 August 1975 The interim agreement with Egypt: the papers he wrote during the shuttle
- 3 November 1978 Khomeini in France: what Iran’s ambassador said
- 1987–1990 A memorandum for the historian: the “Jordanian option”