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1986 Mar 6 - 1986 Jun 16
Prime Ministerial Private Office files

PREM19/1816
Israel (Prime Minister's visit to Israel, May 1986)

Document type: File list item
Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2014 Dec 30
Classification: Secret
Page count: 239
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86 May 12 Mo Major Israel: Cradock minute to Powell ("Prime Minister's visit to Israel") ["...worried that our Middle East policy is [coming to be] seen as virtually indistinguishable from that of the United States, even that of Israel..."] [declassified Dec 2014]
86 May 26 Mo Major Israel: FCO briefing for MT ("Prime Minister's meeting with Palestinians: 26 May") [MT visit to Israel: focus on roles of PLO and Jordan in negotiations with Israeli government] [declassified Dec 2014]
86 May 29 Th Major Israel: FCO minute ("Israel's membership of the EC(E)") [comments made during Thatcher visit to Israel in May 1986] [declassified Dec 2014]
86 May 15 Th Major Israel: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Mrs Ida Nudel") [MT visit to Israel, May 1986: request for UK to interceded on behalf of Soviet refusenik seeking emigration to Israel] [declassified Dec 2014]
86 May 22 Th Major Israel: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Presidency meeting with Arafat") [van den Broek meeting in Tunis coinciding with MT visit to Israel, May 1986] [declassified Dec 2014]
86 May 22 Th Major Israel: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Prime Minister's visit to Israel") [Israelis expected to ask MT to suggest to King Hussein of Jordan that he engage in secret talks with Israel; MT advised not to comply] [declassified Dec 2014]
86 May 23 Fr Major Israel: Israeli Embassy letter to MT (Prime Minister's visit to Israel, May 1986) ["...may I take this opportunity to wish you a most successful visit to our country"] [declassified Dec 2014]
86 May 22 Th Minor Israel: Joint Israel Appeal briefing for MT (Prime Minister's visit to Israel, May 1986) [MT visit to city of Ashkelon, part of "Project Renewal, started in 1978... designed to raise the quality of life in over 100 Israeli communities living below the poverty line"] [declassified Dec 2014]
86 May 30 Fr Minor Israel: Mayor of Jerusalem telegram to MT (Prime Minister's visit to Israel, May 1986) [exchange of courtesies] [declassified Dec 2014]
86 May 25 Su Major Israel: MT letter to Israeli Ambassador to the UK (Prime Minister's visit to Israel, May 1986) [courtesy letter] [declassified Dec 2014]
86 May 23 Fr Major Israel: MT letter to Julian Amery MP (Prime Minister's visit to Israel, May 1986) ["...your thoughts about what I might say in Israel"] [declassified Dec 2014]
86 May 19 Mo Major Israel: No.10 briefing for MT ("Visit to Israel: briefing meeting") [Occupied Territories; Jordan; EC Presidency; Syria; Lebanon; Anglo-Israeli research foundation; counter-terrorism. arms & oil trade embargo; Argentina] [declassified Dec 2014]
86 May 27 Tu Major Israel: No.10 letter to Department of Trade and Industry ("Prime Minister's visit to Israel: Industrial Research Foundation") [MT invites Israeli delegation of scientists to UK in response to Peres proposal for Anglo-Israeli project] [declassified Dec 2014]
86 May 30 Fr Major Israel: No.10 letter to Howe PS ("Palestinian comment on the Prime Minister's remarks in Israel") ["...some misunderstanding of... self-determination for Palestinians... [and] PLO as the sole legitimate representative of the Palestinian people"] [declassified Dec 2014]
86 Feb 25 Tu Major Israel: No.10 letter to Howe PS ("Prime Minister's visit to Israel") ["...wish to avoid... [MT's] visit being used simply to promote Israeli ideas..."] [declassified Dec 2014]
86 May 27 Tu Major Israel: No.10 letter to Howe PS ("Prime Minister's visit to Israel: talks with Mr. Peres") [confidential documents handed to MT by Peres on Middle East economic development programme and West Bank] [declassified Dec 2014]
86 Mar 10 Mo Minor Israel: No.10 letter to Howe PS (Prime Minister's visit to Israel, May 1986) ["...a village for deprived children. The writer suggests that... [MT] might find time to visit it..."] [declassified Dec 2014]
86 May 29 Th Major Israel: No.10 minute ("Mr Thatcher's visit to Israel") ['thank you' letters] [declassified Dec 2014]
86 May 12 Mo Major Israel: No.10 minute to MT ("Visit to Israel") [proposed agenda for discussions from Shimon Peres via Israeli Ambassador] [declassified Dec 2014]
86 May 18 Su Major Israel: No.10 minute to MT ("Visit to Israel: speeches") [MT unhappy with draft: "...if I were to make this speech, I should have no chance whatsoever of influencing the government behind the scenes..."] [declassified Dec 2014]