Index: People, Y

• Yaakov Hazan — Mapam’s Number Two, whose April 1956 “Whoever calls for war today is a criminal against the Jewish people” Peace, Peace turns against his own party over Sinai.
• Yagil Henkin — Co-author of Debunking the Genocide Allegations (2026), military historian at Shalem College and the Jerusalem Institute for Strategy and Security.
• Yahya Sinwar — Hamas leader in Gaza quoted in Debunking the Genocide Allegations that civilian casualties “will pump blood into the veins of the nation”.
• Yasir Arafat — Leader of Fateh and the PLO, the first Palestinian leader to grasp all the major factors affecting the Palestinians and to hold sway over the detail of Palestinian life, in Said’s account.
• Yehoshafat Harkabi — Israeli chief of military intelligence and Arabist whose Arab Attitudes to Israel Said calls canonical, whose 1967 Position of Israel supplies Chapter Three’s cultural-superiority passage, and whom Said’s notes call the principal propagandist in Israel against everything Arab and especially Palestinian.
• Yehoshua Palmon — Ezra Danin’s second-in-command, who in Pappe’s account took a personal interest in the post-occupation selection, interrogation and sometimes execution procedures.
• Yehuda Amital — Rabbi of Gush Emunim’s dovish fringe in Lustick, who ranks the interest of the people of Israel before the interest of the Land and applies pikuach nefesh to territorial questions.
• Yehuda Elitzur — Respected Gush Emunim scholar in Lustick, who maps the movement’s concentric biblical borders, from the ideal patriarchal boundaries to Ezekiel’s dawn-of-redemption shape.
• Yehuda Etzion — Organizer and leading theoretician of the Jewish underground, convicted for the 1980 mayors attack and the Temple Mount conspiracy, in Lustick’s account.
• Yigael Yadin — Top-ranking officer in the Consultancy who recalled that the Village Files knowledge let the command conclude in November 1947 that the Palestine Arabs had nobody to organise them properly.
• Yigal Allon — A military member of the Consultancy, named by Pappe among the figures well grounded in the local ethos who joined its top-ranking officers and ‘Orientalists’.
• Yigal Sarna — Yedioth Aharonoth journalist whose “Operation Fig” investigation is reproduced in Peace, Peace’s appendices.
• Yitzhak Rabin — A regional commander of the 1948 operations who operated in Lydd and Ramla and in the Greater Jerusalem area, in Pappe’s list of the perpetrators.
• Yitzhak Sadeh — Chief of the Palmach and a military member of the Consultancy; his wife Margot ran the Village Files project’s secret film laboratory in her house.
• Yitzhak Shamir — Likud prime minister who succeeded Begin in September 1983, headed the deadlocked National Unity and narrow Likud governments, and agreed to the 1991 U.S.-initiated peace talks, in Dowty’s Chapter 6.
• Yizhar Harari — Progressive (later Liberal) MK quoted for the hard line “forbidden to return even one refugee”, more extremist than Mapai by his own account.
• Yoav Gallant — Israel’s then-Defense Minister named with Netanyahu in the ICC arrest warrants examined in Debunking the Genocide Allegations.
• Yoel Ben-Nun — Rabbi and the most sophisticated exponent of consensus building in Lustick’s Gush Emunim, for whom redemption comes little by little through a Kulturkampf for the majority’s consent.
• Yohanan Bader — Herut MK whose 5 March 1957 speech catalogued the government’s reversed Sinai declarations, from the Third Kingdom to the resurrected ceasefire accord.
• Yosef Shapira — National Religious Party minister who in October 1987 proposed paying Arabs $20,000 each to leave permanently, citing a poll of West Bank and Gaza rabbis, in Lustick’s Conclusion.
• Yossef Nachmani — Joseph Weitz’s most trusted colleague, who shared his view that taking all Arab land was a ‘sacred duty’ requiring a war of occupation, in Pappe’s account.
• Yousef Al-Akkad — Director of the European Gaza Hospital whose testimony in From the River to the Sea describes sixteen years of siege and ICU triage in the 2023 war.
• Yousef M. Aljamal — Gaza writer from Al-Nuseirat, author of the Light in Gaza chapter on travel restrictions as a manifestation of the Nakba.
• Yuval Ne’eman — Physicist and former intelligence officer, the “Operation Fig” programme’s Paris emissary, who refused to speak of the accord in 1996.