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I thanked him for taking the time to see me. But I told him his

and lead the first mission. With as straight a face as I

and to go out in glory. My visitor not only suggested that

all that remained was a formal passage through the turnstile

and the study of ancient civilizations. Fresh from a

Israel’s Negev reconnaissance and tracking unit. He

he couldn’t be sure that a jewel of an idea wasn’t

much less sit down with the self-styled inventors or sages who

as was the name which Motta gave it: Mishugas. The Yiddish

he did seem to enjoy having me around. He even put me in

he tended to keep a formal distance from all but his

I’d risen through Sayeret Matkal. I knew the

I was often the one with the most thorough command of the details.

and outranked me by some distance. Yet with my intelligence

sometimes also including Peres. Almost everyone around the table was

the bor. I was part of nearly all high-level planning meetings

I wasn’t exactly confident I could count on

with the one hiatus as a sayeret reservist at Hebrew

to finish what I’d barely begun when the 1973 war broke out.

and a refusal to countenance any compromise in