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I led a sayeret team on a live-fire raid in a

we hosted a visit to the unit by Colonel Albert Merglen

either as commander of the main force or the

there was a demand for us to do the same in other parts of the

he realized I’d had no experience of a real cross-border mission.

I asked him about it. He told me that he’d been relying on

even with the delay in crossing the river?

just as I had in the days before we set off

when we joined Avraham and the rest of the sayeret in a formal

through errors or omissions I had made. I made that point

I felt not so much triumph as relief. I didn’t kid

General Tzur and our other military and intelligence

awkward kibbutz teenager at APC boot camp in the Negev; through my

in recognition of “a mission which contributed to the

the very future of the sayeret as an operational

” he told me. “I don’t know what might happen. No one does. Just

but an extraordinary ability to focus on the task at hand.

and different skills. Motti Nagar was born in Cairo. He

” he said. “They know what they’re doing.” It was not just a source of

Avraham was waiting for us. “Well?” he asked Meir. “They don’t