Where Dan Shomron appears
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…wanted to let you know.” “What is it?” I asked. He replied that he had been ordered to “check out rumors that Dan Shomron is a homosexual.” I was appalled. The whole thing stank, on every level, and not just because I was confident the “rum...
…the armored corps. My overall wartime commander, Bren, replaced Gorodish as head of the southern command. And Dan Shomron, whose 401" armored brigade played a critical part in defeating the Egyptians, was another. Dan and I had first got to...
“and not to discuss it with anyone. Just to tell Dan Shomron that
two officers from Dan Shomron’s office. Since Dan was
…rce commander Benny Peled, and Gadi Shefi, the commander of the Shayetet 13 SEALs. Finally, two officers from Dan Shomron’s office. Since Dan was katzhar, in overall command of paratroop and infantry forces, it was critical to keep him in t...
…e of the second star on my uniform. Ever since the 1973 war, along with a few other senior officers including Dan Shomron, I had been making the case for a shift to more mobile and less vulnerable forces and weapons systems. I saw the new r...
…rce commander Benny Peled, and Gadi Shefi, the commander of the Shayetet 13 SEALs. Finally, two officers from Dan Shomron’s office. Since Dan was katzhar, in overall command of paratroop and infantry forces, it was critical to keep him in t...
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...
…e of the second star on my uniform. Ever since the 1973 war, along with a few other senior officers including Dan Shomron, I had been making the case for a shift to more mobile and less vulnerable forces and weapons systems. I saw the new r...
… him at the kirya. “He said immediately,” the officer added, “and not to discuss it with anyone. Just to tell Dan Shomron that you’ve been taken out of the operation.” * * * To say I was surprised would be an understatement. But I allowed m...
…the armored corps. My overall wartime commander, Bren, replaced Gorodish as head of the southern command. And Dan Shomron, whose 401 st armored brigade played a critical part in defeating the
… Yanoush and Amram, they told me the lead battalion was now in deep trouble. It was led by Ira Ephron, one of Dan Shomron’s best company commanders during the 1973 war. For reasons I’ve never been able to establish, Ira’s orders were not to...
…been with me on the Rue Verdun raid in Beirut. My own hope was that the nod would go to any even closer friend of mine: Dan Shomron. I had first got to know Dan well in the late sixties after Karameh, Israel’s costly standoff with Arafat,…
Chapter Twelve My own part in the Lebanon war would change dramatically as a result of that last military exercise in the Sinai. Arik Sharon was now Minister of Defense, and he came for the final afternoon. From his experience as a frontlin…
