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lifted the hood of one of the vehicles and

one led by Mookie Betzer and the other by Shai

a kibbutznik named Danny Brunner. He reminded me a lot of

in the command post. “A commander has to be in the

I made an exception. To Dado’s obvious surprise

to the central sector of the border area. Ordinarily

after agreeing it was necessary for Israel.”

I went on: “I have to tell you openly. You can’t

you’ve stopped us. I see this as a breach of trust.” When

they’d been joined by his successor as head of the

he said: “It’s off. Don’t do it. Dado told me to

they might not even know we’d intercepted the convoy. The

Amit told us that Dado and Motta were worried: about the

and told him: “It’s fine. Another hour or so

tied the startled man’s arms behind his back

Amit radioed me with a question from from Dado

moving slowly because of the incline. But

which was soon past us on the way up to the ridge. It was

” I said. “We’ve planned for it. It’s not a

there was the other woman hijacker to deal with.