Every indexed document

for nearly a year. But at the end of the

I was chatting with other officers on the sayeret

Israel. But especially since the 1956 war

would give us an essential edge. But in truth

was the importance of the Sinai operations themselves. I was confident

and seemed uncomfortable in making eye contact. Yet once he

I was invited to see Yitzhak Rabin ten days later.

the command post in the Negev was receiving the first

secured the cart and took off. Within a minute

I suddenly saw the outline of the landing gear and then the underbelly. But

they glued on real tire tread from one of the Egyptian

which would surely raise the suspicions of the Egyptians.

small enough to get in the door of the helicopter

a colonel from his personnel section said: “Why not

he brought along his entire staff. When I raised my concern

we conducted a series of run-throughs in which we simulated

setbacks and frustrations as well. Many months

in a nighttime exercise to see whether we could avoid detection by

” he said. “And I want you and your team to do it.”

cover our tracks and get out again in one piece. “Still