Where Misha Arens appears
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…ce was not critical. But I also found myself working more closely with leading politicians: mainly Shamir and Misha Arens, who as defense minister was my main point of contact. Since I was a Labor kibbutznik, we made an odd threesome. Arens...
Misha Arens mentioned Kav 300 in one of our regular meetings.
/ BARAK / 25 1982 Lebanon War, with two sons fighting on the ground, he’d been a rare voice of common sense, and caution, in the Begin cabinet. I’d also seen him operate in Shamir’s inner security cabinet, when I would come, as deputy chief...
…d Mordechai, accusing him of being driven by personal ambition. Then he offered the Defense Minister’s job to Misha Arens. Yitzhik did join the Center Party, as did Amnon Lipkin, who had ended his term as chief-of-staff and, with initial op...
He was a Moroccan-born 1950s immigrant whose career had begun at the grassroots, in the northern town of Beit She’an, but who went on to become a key part of Begin’s victory in 1977. The leading Sephardi figure in the Likud, he was at one p...
…nity coalition in the spring of 1990, Shamir had formed a Likud-led government shorn of both Peres and Rabin. Misha Arens was again Minister of Defense. I began preparing regular, fortnightly reports for him, Dan and Prime Minister Shamir....
…ce was not critical. But I also found myself working more closely with leading politicians: mainly Shamir and Misha Arens, who as defense minister was my main point of contact. Since I was a Labor kibbutznik, we made an odd threesome. Arens...
Misha Arens mentioned Kav 300 in one of our regular meetings.
…ce was not critical. But I also found myself working more closely with leading politicians: mainly Shamir and Misha Arens, who as defense minister was my main point of contact. Since I was a Labor kibbutznik, we made an odd threesome. Arens...
They were straight talkers. While resolute about decisions once they’d taken them, they were genuinely open to discussion and debate. I also sometimes found a surprising degree of nuance behind their tough exterior. The toughness was there,...
…ce was not critical. But I also found myself working more closely with leading politicians: mainly Shamir and Misha Arens, who as defense minister was my main point of contact. Since I was a Labor kibbutznik, we made an odd threesome. Arens...
