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the mission literally ran into the ground. We dug for

and drawing on the helicopters’ maneuverability – to calculate a flight

and Egyptian military headquarters in Cairo.

we began planning the sayeret’s most ambitious

if only because the intelligence missions now required

there was also little appetite for returning to

where Golda Meir had become Prime Minister after

there seemed no immediate danger of Egypt’s risking another

I would sometimes be invited to weddings by officers

not to mention her family and our guests. Years later

in the spring of 1969. My parents and brothers came

with a centuries-long history in Palestine

I read the newspaper as the music washed over me. I turned to the

a center to train young people from all over Jerusalem in scouting and

she was beginning her studies at Hebrew University as

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