Where Dado appears
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…talion. But I knew, and in many cases had worked with, the men at the very top of the armed forces, including Dado, the chief of staff. So while other young reservists were reporting to their former units for assignment, my first port of ca...
…r we’d see each other again. I made my way to the office that the chief of staff used in the bunker and asked Dado’s secretary if I could see him. As she was deciding whether to let me in, he emerged. Though obviously aware of the seriousne...
… took my mind back 15 months, to our on-again-off-again mission to abduct the Syrian officers, with Motta and Dado in the command post, intent on reining in the “young bulls” of the sayeret. “Ehud,” he said, “from what I’m hearing, I don’t...
…. It also took aim at two other commanders. Gorodish, as head of the southern command, was one. The other was Dado. As chief-of-staff, he was held ultimately responsible for the intelligence failings and for not having ordered at least a pa...
…r we’d see each other again. I made my way to the office that the chief of staff used in the bunker and asked Dado’s secretary if I could see him. As she was deciding whether to let me in, he emerged. Though obviously aware of the seriousne...
I made an exception. To Dado’s obvious surprise
he said: “It’s off. Don’t do it. Dado told me to
Amit told us that Dado and Motta were worried: about the
Amit radioed me with a question from from Dado
” Dado told the team leaders when it was over. “We’ve seen what we
demanded a meeting with Dado before our attack in Rue Verdun. Amit died in the fighting near Ismailia, at the northern end of the canal, as Arik Sharon’s units pushed on after the crossing. The day before the end of the war, both Amitai and...
on seemed not to faze him. Hours into the invasion, he moved an armored force toward Kuwait’s border with Saudi Arabia, a key US regional ally, immediately prompting the President George Bush’s administration to go beyond mere verbal condem...
…. It also took aim at two other commanders. Gorodish, as head of the southern command, was one. The other was Dado. As chief-of-staff, he was held ultimately responsible for the intelligence failings and for not having ordered at least a pa...
toward the image of Beirut, Dado turned to me. “Do you know this place?” he asked. Yes, I said. I’d seen the photo. Nodding toward the Mossad men, I said: “These two officers showed it to me.” “Do you have an idea how to do this operation?”...
…flight north. It got the the kirya early in the evening, and joined a meeting that was already well underway. Dado was in his usual seat on the right-hand side of the table he used for staff discussions, flanked by Talik. Across from them w...
d Cross man noticed the boots, he at first made no comment. Then, rolling up the pants leg of Bibi’s overalls, he saw his Beretta – not inside his waistbelt, but inside the boot. The next thing I heard was an angry spurt of French as the ma...
heir own. All of us must assume that. Keep cool. Stay focused. Rely on your instincts. We’re ready for this mission. And we are going to achieve it.” One minute after four in the afternoon, we got the word to go. I was in the lead buggy, co...
…dviser. Also from the fact that Chaim Bar-Lev’s successor as chief of staff was an old friend of the sayeret: Dado Elazar, Avraham’s Palmach comrade from 1948. Yet winning over the remaining doubters in the kirya was obviously going to take...
… to check for any sayeret marshals arriving on El Al flights and get them to join us. As | headed back to see Dado, we were nowhere close to a detailed plan on how to confront the hijackers. Nor did we have any orders. The people who would...
…o be more elaborate than my arrival, though not at my instigation. With both Talik and Avraham in attendance, Dado presented me with my fifth tza/ash. It was not for Beirut. Not for the operation against the Syrian officers, or the unpreced...
