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An improbable friendship, the remarkable lives of Israeli Ruth Dayan and Palestinian Raymonda Tawil and their forty-year peace mission, Anthony David ; cover design by Laura Klynstra

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Anthony David ; cover design by Laura Klynstra

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-eight, 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 forty-year friendship and delivers the story of their extraordinary and turbulent lives growing up in a war-torn country. Based on personal interviews, diaries, and journals drawn from both women—Ruth lives today in Tel Aviv, Raymonda in Malta—author Anthony David delivers a fast-paced, fascinating n

Halftitle -- Ad card -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Epigraph -- 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: DialogueChapter 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 WallsChapter 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 -- Photos