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which seemed to come from just a few dozen yards

and Avraham knew him well. His wartime division consisted of

for the hell of it. One hallmark of the sayeret’s ethos

everything from handguns to machine guns

we had been steeped in the spirit of commandos. Our

Kapusta and Gibli and Errol and the other grizzled vets from

unseen and undetected. But we were not only

Sayeret Matkal was part of his department. He called together all the

the rough equivalent of America’s National Security Agency.

he faltered while reading it. He sounded

he delivered a radio address at the end of May

word got out that a park in the center of the city

organized us into four teams. He put me in command of

he went further expelling the United Nations force put in place

he received word that Egypt had moved thousands of

and trouble began brewing in the south. Ben-

scrambling our jets and shooting down six

but I couldn’t defuse it either. I did manage to get

then at Gonn. But he had clearly got the message. “The

“is it possible that the fluid in that bottle is spontaneously