Where Uzi Dayan appears
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…ts, with the emphasis on those who’d seen active service most recently. As we were waiting to board, I phoned Uzi Dayan and asked him to meet me at Lod the next morning. Then I called Motta again. “Ehud,” he said, with no trace of irony, “i...
…alem or Tel Aviv. Some of my oldest army friends lived there as well: Danny Yatom, as well as Shaul Mofaz and Uzi Dayan, who was now deputy chief of staff. Newer colleagues, too, like Yossi Ginossar, a Shin Bet veteran who spoke fluent Arab...
I phoned Uzi Dayan and asked him to meet me
…el, 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. I stationed Bibi an...
echemia Cohen: he spoke little, and softly, but once an operation began was calm, clear minded and able to anticipate and avoid trouble before it materialized. Two other teams, one led by Mookie Betzer and the other by Shai Agmon, would act...
…he field. It’s here.” I placed Yoni, who had just become my deputy, in overall command of the two main teams: Uzi Dayan’s and another led by one of our most impressive young officers, a kibbutznik named Danny Brunner. He reminded me a lot o...
ver so we could all go home. Minutes later, Amit called again. He told us the convoy was on its way down. But barely 60 seconds later, he said: “It’s off. Don’t do it. Dado told me to repeat it twice so you’d understand: do not do the opera...
the convoy was getting closer. But within a minute, we spotted the lead Land Rover, which was soon past us on the way up to the ridge. It was followed by two large American cars, with the Syrian officers, and then a trailing security vehicl...
…el, 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. I stationed Bibi an...
orning, we crossed the border a little before midnight on June 9. We lay in ambush in dense vegetation a few meters off a curve in the road, further reducing the time the Syrians would have to react once they saw us. I stationed two other s...
sses and nodded. As I set out the details of the attack plan, he listened, with no obvious sign of approval or rejection. But after I’d finished, he dismissed it out of hand. He said that Arafat was no longer the battlefield commander whose...
overnment. Now, they were doing much the same in Lebanon. Their headquarters buildings in southern Beirut were spawning hijackings or terror attacks. From bases in southern Lebanon, the Palestinians were also firing Katyusha rockets into Is...
briefly, celebrate back at the sayeret base. But as with every other operation, we went through a self-critical assessment of what we could have done better. How, if we had to do another hostage-rescue operation, could we make sure none of...
or, he’d run up against a stocky, suntanned man blocking in his way, and fired – thankfully, only into his midsection. He turned out to be one of the passengers, a filmmaker from Austria. Still, there was the other woman hijacker to deal wi...
…sed the hand in which he had his Beretta. The gun went off, and the bullet grazed Bibi in his upper arm. When Uzi Dayan had finally got in through the rear door, he’d run up against a stocky, suntanned man blocking in his way, and fired – t...
would witness during all my years in the military. The “prisoner release” was now in full flow. Dozens of military vehicles, and a small army of fire engines and ambulances, had also pulled to the far end of the runway, out of sight of the...
y. Looking up the hijacker, I made a conscious effort to appear curious rather than worried. His eyes seemed a mix of intense focus and tension. I opened the front of my overalls. Because of the heat, I was wearing nothing else on top. He n...
got word that Dado – along with Ze’evi and Ahrahle Yariv – were on their way to see a run-through. As they filed into the hangar, I quickly explained the operational plan. I showed them how we would push in the wing doors in, and then usher...
… command. There were two others as well, both related to Moshe Dayan, but with a selfassurance all their own: Uzi Dayan, the son of Moshe’s brother, who had been killed in the 1948 war when Uzi was only months old; and Mookie Betzer, who wa...
including Uzi Dayan and his full team. I took all those
