Father, Son, Stone by Allan H. Goodman

Character Chart by Order of Appearance

Historical Characters are in Italics
Minor characters that only appear once or twice are not listed.
Prologue 2035
Nuri – the Narrator.
Grandfather (jiddo in Arabic).

Chapter 1- June 5, 1967 (The Six-Day War)
Meir Bar-Aben - a young paratrooper (55th Brigade) in the IDF (Israel Defense
Forces) -
Amos Eitan - the junior intelligence officer in the 55th Brigade
Lieutenant General Mordechai Gur – Field Commander of the IDF; his forces
capture the Temple Mount.
Chapter 2 – June 7, 1967
General Uzi Narkiss – IDF Central Command
Rabbi Shlomo Goren – Chief Rabbi of the State of Israel
Moshe Dayan – Minister of Defense of the State of Israel
Chapter 3 – June 7, 1967 Evening
Unidentified Arabic Speaking Man – Comes to the Temple Mount
Unidentified Orthodox Jew – Comes to the Temple Mount
Chapter 4
The Muslim Waqf – the Muslim Authority that has control of the Temple Mount
Chapter 5 – April 30, 2014
Hassan ibn Sadik – the Muslim martyr (shaheed) who kills himself and Ori Bar-Aben when he detonates a bomb on a bus
Prime Minister Ezer Zadok – Prime Minister of Israel – he was a paratrooper in the Six-Day War, wounded during combat.
Hiram Aitza – Director of the Israel Museum
Meir Bar-Aben - has now been appointed the newest member of the Supreme Court of Israel.
Ori Bar-Aben – son of Meir and Channah Bar-Aben. Husband of Sarah Bar-Aben. Killed during bus bombing.
Chapter 7 – March 17, 2017
Ruth – Justice Bar-Aben's Secretary
Elie Heifitz – Chief Justice (President) of the Supreme Court of Israel
Chaim Bar – Aben - Justice Bar-Aben's father
Chapter 8
Zara and Hamid – married - residents of the Jerusalem neighborhood of Silwan
Chapter 9
Samir ibn Abdullah – the muadhan (the one who calls to prayer) of al-Aqsa mosque. A resident of the Muslim Quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem.
Jamilah – Samir's wife.
Rabbi Ashur Avidan – Resident of the Jewish Quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem.
Chapter 10
Amran – Prime Minister Ezer Zadok's personal security guard – assigned to protect Justice Bar-Aben later in the story
Chapter 11
Rabbi Tarfon – Head of the New Sanhedrin
Chapter 13
Channah Bar-Aben – wife of Meir Bar-Aben, mother of Ori Bar-Aben, mother-in-law of Sarah Bar-Aben
Esther - the Bar-Aben's cat
Chapter 15
Tamar – Channah's sister.
Chapter 16
Da'ud – Zara's uncle
Dr. Jamal - Zara's doctor
Chapter 17
Amos Eitan – is now a Mossad agent
Chapter 18
Sarah Bar-Aben – Ori-Bar-Aben's widow; daughter-in-law of Meir and Channah
Chapter 20
Rabbi Ashur Avidan – he is the unidentified Orthodox Jew in Chapter 3 that appeared on the Temple Mount during the Six-Day War
Leah Avidan – Rabbi Ashur Avidan's wife
Jacob Avidan – son of Rabbi Ashur Avidan and Leah Avidan
Samir ibn Abdullah – he is the uinidentified Muslim man in Chapter 3 that appeared on the Temple Mount during the Six-Day War
Chapter 24
Fatima al-Fawzi – a professor of Islamic History at Hebrew University.
Chapter 25
Agents Aleph and Bet (Aleph and Bet are the first two letters of the Hebrew Alphabet) - two security agents who are following Channah and Sarah, and watching Zara.
Chapter 27
Rita – Hiram Aitza's assistant at the Israel Museum
Mr. Haskell – Curator of the Freer Gallery in Washington, D.C.
Aaron Kragen – former Mossad sayan – messenger from the United States
Chapter 28
Joshua Galilee – follows Aaron Kragen from New York to Israe
The Zion Baptist Temple Group – Church Group traveling to Israel ; Reverend Crosby; Amy; The Masons
Chapter 34
Rabbi Jochanan ben Zakai – 70 AD – member of the Sanhedrin – ancestor of Rabbi Ashur Avidan
Rabbi Yehoshua and Rabbi Eliezer – Rabbi Jochanan ben Zakkai's students
General Flavius Vespasian (later Emperor Vespasian of Rome) - Commander of the Roman Army in Judea
Titus – son of Vespasian, left in command of the Roman Army when Vespasian became Emperor. Besieged and conquered Jerusalem, destroyed the Temple.
Chapter 37
Sophronius – Patriarch of the Byzantine Church in Jerusalem 634 AD
Umar ibn al-Khattab – Second Caliph of Islam – conquered Jerusalem 637 AD –
cleaned the Temple Mount and built al-Aqsa Mosque
Abu Ubayda - General of the Muslim Army
Chapter 38
Samir ibn Abdullah reveals that Umar ibn al-Khattab is his ancestor
Ka'ab al-Chabar – Caliph Umar's advisor who was Jewish and converted to Islam.
Chapter 41
Umm Tawfiq – grandmother of Fatima al-Fawzi
Chapter 42
Fatima al-Fawzi reveals that Ka'ab al-Chabar was is her ancestor.
Chapter 43
Rabbi Simon ben David - a descendant of Rabbi Jochanan ben Zakkai and
ancestor of Rabbi Ashur Avidan.
Chapter 45
Rebecca – wife of Rabbi Sim
Deborah – daughter of Rabbi Simon ben David
Moshe ben Abraham (Musa ibn Ibrahim) - Ka'ab's father
Chapter 47
Mumtaz and Khadijah – Zara's parents
Chapter 50
Caliph Abd al-Malik – built the Dome of the Rock