Narkiss a biography

While Operation Inferno achieved most of its objectives, namely uprooting Fatah from their headquarters at Karameh in Jordan, it failed to capture Yasser Arafat. Moreover, the Israelis suffered numerous casualties and loss of equipment, some of which was paraded through Amman. This emboldened King Hussein , and led to a recruitment wave in Fatah.

As a result, Narkiss was quietly relieved of his command, and instead went on to hold key positions in the Jewish Agency and the World Zionist Organization. In the s he wanted to give it to Kader's son Faisal Husseini but only "in the presence of journalists and TV cameras — otherwise I am not interested". Husseini was not interested under such terms, therefore Narkiss kept it in his library.

Narkiss died in after a long illness at the age of He was buried in the military cemetery on Mount Herzl. Contents move to sidebar hide. Article Talk. Read Edit View history. Tools Tools. Download as PDF Printable version. In other projects. As a result of his activity, a school of students and researchers has evolved since the mids and the study of Jewish art as a discipline has spread from Israel to Europe and the United States.

For this significant work he was awarded the Israel Prize in Narkiss published widely on the subject of illuminated Hebrew Manuscripts, and his major work on the subject, Hebrew Illuminated Manuscripts , has appeared in several editions. Sources: Encyclopaedia Judaica. All Rights Reserved. Download our mobile app for on-the-go access to the Jewish Virtual Library.

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Narkiss a biography

Discography [ edit ]. Albums [ edit ]. From Narkiss's point of view, the liberation completed the campaign he had begun nineteen years earlier. As a boy, Narkiss and his friends used to visit the Western Wall every Shabbat. For them it was a weekly rite of national unity, rather than a religious one. Hence Narkiss's intense disappointment, expressed in an interview shortly before his death, at the religious and social polarization that has surrounded the Wall since its liberation.

Narkiss retired from the Israel Defense Forces in , and for over twenty years held key positions at the Jewish Agency and World Zionist Organization. He died in Jerusalem at age Download our mobile app for on-the-go access to the Jewish Virtual Library. Category » Biography.