Where Mookie appears
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knew that would be a sensitive task. We spoke only briefly before he and Mookie drove back to the sayeret base to begin more detailed preparations. Yoni was insistent that he should be in charge. I told him I understood, and I did. In his p...
…fore taking power in 1971. We had sent officers to help train his army in the early 1970s. Now, I discovered, Mookie himself had been on one of the training missions. “Their men aren’t great fighters, at least at night,” he said, an insight...
…e and, once into Israel, sloped steeply down again toward Haifa. I took in two main assault teams, one led by Mookie, the other by Uzi Dayan. We hid in a tangle of bushes about halfway along the road which climbed up toward the border ridge...
…he said finally, “Yoni’s dead. We got the hostages out. But Yoni was killed.” I sought out two other friends: Mookie and Ephraim Sneh, the Battalion 890 doctor, who had been with us at the Chinese Farm. Both were obviously torn between a se...
…Vietnam. That operation went exactly as planned. Except that the POWs had been moved. I drove to see Yoni and Mookie at the sayeret base. We spent most of the meeting on the opening few minutes of the operation: the rolling out of the vehic...
…Vietnam. That operation went exactly as planned. Except that the POWs had been moved. I drove to see Yoni and Mookie at the sayeret base. We spent most of the meeting on the opening few minutes
…oy. In a brief initial exchange of gunfire, one of Uzi’s men was wounded, not seriously, in the leg. But with Mookie’s team firing from behind and Yoni’s and Uzi’s men in front, the convoy was trapped, and the Syrians captured. The safest w...
several of his men had been killed. Mookie was wounded.
