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five years younger than me. I was struck not just by the

she figured this was just another one of our times apart. Or

for not simply having phoned. But since I didn’t contact her in the

I did finish in the upper quarter of the

not just on the West Bank but into the Negev. Eshkol’s cabinet

and surely less fulfilling personally. My sayeret

that I would find my true purpose in life trying to

was intellectually enthralling. But it turned out to have another effect

and by post-doctoral students determined to follow in their

even with people I knew and liked but were not close friends

suggesting that such diagnoses were probably best left to the

we would face a dramatically different series of

and to the telephone poles on the Golan Heights.

he included a reference to a “high-ranking spy” in the Egyptian army

even engaged in some misdirection. He was anxious to avoid

Meir Amit’s successor as Head of Military Intelligence

real-time intelligence on where enemy tanks and troops

we did play an important part in the outcome. Because Dayan

or amid the olive-green hills and valleys of the West

badly damaging his leg. He’d been temporarily reassigned