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and manipulative. The so-called ‘story’ was an amateurish

I drove to the television studio in Tel Aviv. Mishal

or Jeremy Paxman and John Humphreys in Britain.

the man who had interviewed me 10 years earlier

our equivalent of the BBC. They were proposing that

Menachem Begin’s son. All three said they were sure the

a friend even before we’d both gone into the army

which was gusting against me. But three Knesset members dissented. One

I sat with Doron and talked through how to

I thought. Rabin knew that the story was untrue. I’d still

Aliza told her: “It is important that Ehud knows that we

but frustrated at my inability to rebut the story in

he was facing death within hours. In those circumstances

the kindappers might kill him before we got in.

no plan could be foolproof. I told Rabin that the

still had control. And Sayeret Matkal had expertise and experience

I arranged for another commando unit to begin

we would negotiate. Now that we knew where

he said that if we couldn’t be reasonably

assuming we could locate Wachsman and come up with a plan that