Where Yoni appears
27 total
… on a Saturday stroll on the beach. They made their apartment a home. The shelves creaked under the weight of Yoni’s books. Often on a Saturday, when Nava and I dropped in to see them, an old 33 rpm record would be playing on the stereo. Yo...
…e 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 position, I would have felt exactly the...
” I told him. “I knew Yoni. I know Bruria. I do not know you.
and help separate her from Yoni and his legacy. He went so far as
Yoni was hit. He’d been shot from the control tower. I
with Yoni leading the sayeret and me in the kirya
Yoni let him drive on. Along with the other obvious reasons
but didn’t feel I could stop Yoni from trying. Five minutes
o withdraw whatever mantle I might be providing, and help separate her from Yoni and his legacy. He went so far as to say that one reason he was calling me was because he didn’t want to have to take “legal steps” to make that happen. I saw...
…g, execution, and decision-making; it was “this spirit, this essence, that was tested at Entebbe.” When I saw Yoni’s family afterwards, though they thanked me for my remarks, I could see that they were still bleeding inside. I am sure that...
… And know before whom you are destined to give your final account, the King of Kings.” I spoke of the loss of Yoni, and said it was impossible not to think about the meaning of what lay between the “putrid drop” where each of us begins our...
bourgeoning place in Israel’s pantheon of national heros. He asked me to be one of the speakers at Yoni’s shloshim, a commemorative event in Jerusalem which, in Jewish religious tradition, would mark the end of the first month of mourning....
…aken to a Nairobi hospital. So I was unable to join the gathering of hundreds on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem for Yoni’s funeral. Or to hear Shimon Peres praise him in terms I knew must have filled his parents and Bibi, too, with enormous pride...
…hat had happened, stayed with her, talked with her, and held her, during those first few awful hours. I found Yoni’s death even more upsetting when I learned from Mookie and others how it had happened. As the sayeret motorcade began making...
… the awkward silence, the lack of any greeting, something must have 175 gone wrong. “Ehud,” 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...
…were other flats in the building. It turned out that the owner of the flat below ours was willing to rent it. Yoni snapped it up. Over the past year or so, with Yoni leading the sayeret and me in the kirya, we’d seen more of each another. F...
…al first part of the operation. I believed I was best placed to ensure it succeeded. I felt that was best for Yoni, too, due to tensions inside the sayeret of which both of us were aware. There was no officer to whom I was closer than Yoni....
…in North 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...
…in North 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
s time, I was the one in direct contact with all three teams. Even before I gave the order, Yoni had anticipated it. He and Uzi turned west to confront the convoy. In a brief initial exchange of gunfire, one of Uzi’s men was wounded, not se...
