Where Yitzhik Mordechai appears
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…ied. “But I doubt it’Il be allowed to drag on much past daybreak.” He was right. With my Chinese Farm comrade Yitzhik Mordechai in overall command, Sayeret Matkal stormed the bus at about seven in the morning. They shot and killed two of th...
with Yitzhik Mordechai’s 10 or 11 percent still likely to prevent
Yitzhik Mordechai and I were all invited
/ BARAK / 26 that he and others were convinced Bibi couldn’t win. A couple of weeks later, Yitzhik Mordechai seemed on the verge of becoming the latest of Bibi’s ministers to resign. He was openly flirting with the idea of joining a new cen...
…nion poll numbers suggesting he’d do well, even briefly entered the race for Prime Minister. Now, he endorsed Yitzhik Mordechai instead: a man not only with strong military credentials, but of Sephardi background and religiously observant,...
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...
eemed more concerned with keeping the rightwing of Likud and the smaller, even more extreme parties from turning against him. In late September 1996, Bibi and the Likud mayor of Jerusalem, Ehud Olmert, decided to go ahead with the festive o...
urned to him and said: “Look what Barak is doing to me. What have you been doing?” Giora, who had been a conduit between us at the very beginning of our discussions, replied: “You asked me to bring Barak to you.” At which point, Shimon said...
…ied. “But I doubt it’ll be allowed to drag on much past daybreak.” He was right. With my Chinese Farm comrade Yitzhik Mordechai in overall command, Sayeret Matkal stormed the bus at about seven in the morning. They shot and killed two of th...
Lauder, or explicitly accuse Bibi of hypocrisy. But his reply — and Bibi’s visible discomfort — were just as effective. Smiling sardonically, he said: “I know your outbursts, and they won’t do you any good.” He challenged Bibi to just “look...
…do. This time, the Israeli television debate came earlier in the campaign, a month before the election. Bibi, Yitzhik Mordechai and I were all invited, as the three main candidates. But I told the TV people I had a conflicting personal enga...
Yitzhik Mordechai was — wrongly — put on trial for his alleged part in
