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A dedication from former US Ambassador to Israel Samuel Lewis to former PM Menachem Begin in a copy of Henry Kissinger's "Years of Upheaval," found at Jerusalem's Park Hamesila book station on Tuesday. (Shuki Ben Naim/Facebook)
February 19, 2025, 12:12 am
Book with dedication from US ambassador to PM Begin found at Jerusalem book swap station
Short note from Samuel Lewis, US envoy from 1977 to 1985, in a book by Kissinger on the Nixon era, offers former premier ‘the highest admiration and respect’
By ToI Staff
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) meets with former US secretary of state Henry Kissinger in New York on September 21, 2023 (Avi Ohayon/GPO)
November 30, 2023, 1:37 pm
Israeli officials laud Kissinger, as global public reaction mixed to diplomat’s death
Netanyahu praises ‘great statesman, scholar and friend,’ as Chinese, German leaders pay tribute to former US secretary of state, while others remember him instead as a war criminal
By ToI Staff and AP
Henry Kissinger tells a White House news conference that "peace is at hand in Vietnam," on Oct. 26, 1972. (AP Photo)
November 30, 2023, 4:36 am
Henry Kissinger, 1st Jewish secretary of state, iconic Cold War diplomat, dies at 100
Having fled Nazi Germany at 15, Kissinger went to great lengths to distance himself from his Jewish background while conducting foreign policy on Nixon’s behalf
By Charlie Summers
Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger briefs newsmen on Friday, Oct. 12, 1973 at the State Department in Washington. The press conference followed his visit to the United Nations where he conferred with Israeli Foreign Minister Abba Eban on the troubled Middle East. (AP Photo)
May 30, 2023, 9:09 am
Kissinger denies delaying weapons airlifts to Israel during 1973 Yom Kippur War
Iconic ex-top US diplomat says supply complicated by logistical issues, and Washington initially thought Israel was already winning: ‘This was a huge step we took. It saved Israel’
By ToI Staff
File - Then-US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, a German-born Jewish refugee, briefs the press on an upcoming state visit of Moscow's Soviet Communist Party chief Leonid Brezhnev in Washington, June 14, 1973. (AP Photo/Bob Daugherty)
May 26, 2023, 7:13 pm
Vietnam, the Middle East, regime coups, invasions: Henry Kissinger’s major moments
Controversial top diplomat, turning 100 on Saturday, organized airlift to resupply Israel during Yom Kippur War, secretly brokered ties with communist China
By AFP
File: Former US secretary of state Henry Kissinger attends a luncheon at the US State Department in Washington, DC, on December 1, 2022. (ROBERTO SCHMIDT / AFP)
May 26, 2023, 6:37 pm
At age 100, Kissinger basks in US praise without accountability, critics say
Ex-top diplomat and security adviser to presidents is renowned for US diplomacy, but also for role in expanding Vietnam War, supporting military coups
By Shaun Tandon
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September 4, 1975 – Cabinet Room – The White House – Washington, DC – Gerald R. Ford, Sens. Mansfield, Byrd, Scott, Griffin, Curtis, Sparkman, Thurmond, Stennis; Reps. Albert, Tip O'Neill, McFall, Rhodes, Michel, Burton, Morgan, Broomfield, Price, Wilson, Anderson; Kissinger, Sisco, Friedersdorf, Greenspan, Nessen, Cannon, Lynn, Staff – seated around table; all not in frame – Bipartisan Congressional Briefing to Discuss Energy, the Middle East, and Congressional Travel During August 1975 (US National Archives)
December 12, 2022, 1:24 pm
Kissinger’s Middle East: Limiting Moscow and Starting a Road to Peace
How did Henry Kissinger balance the US’s Cold War competition with the Soviets and lay the groundwork for peace between Israel and Egypt? David and diplomat Martin Indyk discuss.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky addressing the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, from Kyiv on May 23, 2022. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)
May 27, 2022, 11:17 am
Invoking Holocaust, Zelensky rips Kissinger for proposing Ukraine cede turf to Putin
Ukrainian president accuses former US secretary of state of acting like it’s 1938, in reference to Munich Agreement allowing Nazi Germany to annex parts of Czechoslovakia
By Ron Kampeas
Henry Kissinger negotiates with Egyptian president Anwar Sadat in the garden of his summer villa at Mamoura, Alexandria, on August 25, 1975. (David Hume Kennerly White House Photographs/Kissinger Papers at Yale University)
November 30, 2021, 2:20 am
Martin Indyk says Kissinger’s Machiavellian tactics helped stabilize Israel, Mideast
In ‘Master of the Game,’ his new bio on the former US secretary of state, veteran diplomat Indyk looks at how regional powers were leveraged into living with each other
By JP O’ Malley
US Secretary of State George Shultz, left, greets Israeli Defense Minister Yitzhak Rabin at the State Department in Washington on January 28, 1985 (AP Photo/Ira Schwarz)
February 8, 2021, 5:29 pm
When George Shultz, friend of Israel, opened the door to Palestinian legitimacy
In Moscow, US secretary of state met with Jews denied exit permits, and once arranged a ‘refusenik’ Passover Seder at the US Embassy
By Matthew Lee
File photo: Dr. Henry Kissinger, professor of government at Harvard University, seen December 1968, has been appointed as assistant to President Nixon's National Security Affairs. (AP Photo)
September 26, 2020, 1:24 pm
‘Machiavellian’ German refugee Kissinger shaped US policy with Jewish philosophy
‘The Inevitability of Tragedy’ shows how the abidingly influential ex-secretary of state’s strategies were shaped by family’s escape from Nazis and by German Jewish intellectuals
By JP O’ Malley
US President Richard M. Nixon, right, and Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev drink a toast at the White House in Washington, DC, June 21, 1973. The toast comes after the two leaders signed a pact to limit offensive nuclear arsenals. (AP)
October 14, 2018, 9:36 pm
How Leonid Brezhnev almost escalated the Yom Kippur War into a nuclear nightmare
With Nixon in a drunken stupor on the verge of impeachment, and Israel locked in deadly war, an unstable Soviet leader was moving nuclear cargo into an Egyptian port
By Eric Cortellessa
A military honor guard team carries the casket of Sen. John McCain from the US Capitol, Saturday, Sept. 1, 2018 in Washington. (Win McNamee/Pool photo via AP)
September 1, 2018, 6:22 pm
At funeral, McCain’s daughter mourns passing of ‘real’ American greatness
Meghan McCain lambastes ‘cheap rhetoric from men who will never come near his sacrifice’; three presidents, but not Trump, pay tribute at Washington service
By Laurie Kellman
Members of the public walk past the flag-draped casket bearing the remains of John McCain of Arizona, who lived and worked in Congress over four decades, in the US Capitol rotunda in Washington, Friday, Aug. 31, 2018. (AP/J. Scott Applewhite)
August 31, 2018, 11:34 pm
Thousands line up to say goodbye to John McCain at US Capitol
President Donald Trump, who mocked the longtime senator for being captured during Vietnam War, was asked to stay away from the service
By LAURIE KELLMA and Matthew Daly
This file photo taken on January 31, 2017 shows then national security adviser General Mike Flynn (L), Senior Advisor Jared Kushner (2L) and US President Donald Trump (R) at the beginning of a meeting on cyber security at the White House. (AFP Photo/Brendan Smialowski)
December 3, 2017, 5:39 pm
What Flynn’s plea could mean for Kushner and Israel
If the former national security adviser offered a quid-pro-quo to Russia with Trump’s son-in-law’s blessing, it could be seen as an active effort to undermine Obama policy
By Ron Kampeas
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