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with the aim of undertaking secret missions

the oldest of our officers was 21. Most of the men were

bringing the size of the sayeret to twenty. We were almost all

even they would recognize the folly of not using it.

he was convinced that if we could demonstrate a toughness

and there was no sign of that happening.

he enlisted a core of them to help train recruits to his new

he invited friends who had served in Unit 101 and

there had been a de facto ban on crossborder

and the Company A men followed suit. They were all taken to

only the Company A men had any first-hand

a handover mission was organized. Three men from

Har-Zion led his team onto the Golan. They

and it ended in a failure even more serious

under the command of a future Israeli chief-of-staff

with almost movie-star looks and a face made even more

outside a handful of senior officers in military headquarters

a kitchenette and a room for storing weapons.

the main part had been converted into Israel’s officertraining

training recruits got a five-day leave every few