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this would be the first time we were taking on

as well arranging for El Al to get us the ladder

which he was. I remained with Ze’evi and

why not just add another layer? Why can’t Ehud’s people take the

he said: “Since we’re going to such lengths to

to begin rounding up hundreds of young Israeli reserve soldiers.

was making increasingly forceful demands for the

” Dado told me. “See what the options are to

Dayan and ultimately Prime Minister Meir – were still

we were nowhere close to a detailed plan on

I put Danny in charge of briefing the new arrivals

I tried to work out how we might attack the

beginning with the cockpit and the front door

because our base was just 15 minutes away.

and an El Al engineer to see whether we could disable the hijacked jet.

it had been hijacked after a stopover in Vienna. All we knew at this point

unfurnished except for a small table in the

and showed no sign of wanting to go to bed. “It’s Manno

that was an inescapable part of being an army officer.

I saw nowhere near as much of our daughter’s first few months as