A Good Night's Sleep...

At the time Ronald Reagan
was about to challenge Jimmy
Carter for the presidency, and
Mr. Netanyahu felt the conserv-
ative Mr. Reagan might be more
in tune with his ideas.
"-We set out to change Ameri-
ca's policy on terrorism," he said.
"It sounds preposterous today. I
was all of 27; I had no contacts
and I went from country to coun-
try. I went to speak to George
Will, (conservative British au-
thor) Paul Johnson, Norman
Podhoretz, George Bush, some
of the people around Reagan,
Henry Jackson."
In 1979 these figures and oth-
ers, including then-Israeli Prime
Minister Menachem Begin and
Shimon Peres (Israel's defense
minister during the raid on En-
tebbe), took part in the Jonathan
Institute's first conference on ter-
ror in Jerusalem.
Among those attending was
Moshe Arens, then Israeli am-
bassador to the U.S. Mr. Arens
had worked with Mr. Ne-
tanyahu's father, Professor Ben-
zion Netanyahu, in right-wing
Zionist activities in the U.S. af-
ter World War II. Professor Ne-
tanyahu had even been a witness
at Mr. Arens wedding.
The Jonathan Institute con-
ference was the event that ce-
mented Mr. Arens connection
with Mr. Netanyahu and led to
his becoming_ Mr. Netanyahu's
political mentor. Mr. Arens was
impressed that such a young, po-
litically-inexperienced man could
draw together so many high-pro-
file figures for a conference for
their mutual aims.
In 1982, when Mr. Netanyahu
was head of marketing for an Is-
raeli furniture company, Mr.
Arens invited him to Jerusalem's
Plaza Hotel and asked him to be-
come his deputy at the Israeli
Embassy in Washington. "I
thought for all of 60 seconds," Mr.
Netanyahu recalled, "and said
OK."
From there he became Unit-
ed Nations ambassador, then a
Knesset member. After the
Likud's defeat in the 1992 elec-
tions, Mr. Arens retired from pol-
itics and Mr. Netanyahu made
his successful run for the party
leadership.
Every year on the Hebrew cal-
endar anniversary of the En-
tebbe raid, Mr. Netanyahu, his
family and Yonatan's friends and
colleagues go up to Mount Her-
zl cemetery in Jerusalem for a
memorial service.
June 23, was the 20th an-
niversary memorial. It wasn't a
state event, though; Mr. Ne-
tanyahu made no speech. Yet,
the triumph and tragedy of En-
tebbe Airport had been the cat-
alyst for what led to Mr.
Netanyahu's attending the ser-
vice as prime minister. ❑

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