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…. They beat him and my grandmother to death with an axle wrenched loose from a nearby carriage. Their four-year-old son Meir – my father’s older brother – suffered a deep wound from where the attackers drove the metal shaft into his head. He carried a golf-ball-sized indentation...

…. They beat him and my grandmother to death with an axle wrenched loose from a nearby carriage. Their four-year-old son Meir — my father’s older brother — suffered a deep wound from where the attackers drove the metal shaft into his head. He carried a golf-ball-sized indentation...

…. They beat him and my grandmother to death with an axle wrenched loose from a nearby carriage. Their four-year-old son Meir — my father’s older brother — suffered a deep wound from where the attackers drove the metal shaft into his head. He carried a golf-ball-sized indentation...

“What the hell is going on?” I replied, in a mix of a shout and a whisper, since I knew 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 Syri...

…p of the military. For much of the 1950s, when Dayan was chief-of-staff, his right-hand-man was a Haganah veteran named Meir Amit. In 1961, the term of Dayan’s successor as chief of staff, Haim Laskov, was coming to an end and Amit was in the mix to get the top job. He was alread...

…p of the military. For much of the 1950s, when Dayan was chief-of-staff, his right-hand-man was a Haganah veteran named Meir Amit. In 1961, the term of Dayan’s successor as chief of staff, Haim Laskov, was coming to an end and Amit was in the mix to get the top job. He was alread...

…ioning. Even allowing for the fact it rained less in the Sinai, we had to address the risk. I went to see the people in Meir Amit’s technology unit, and they began developing a waterproofing system for the equipment. The main problem with the equipment, however, was its sheer we...

his right-hand-man was a Haganah veteran named Meir Amit. In

Meir Amit’s successor as Head of Military Intelligence

…t decorated, and respected, commando unit in the army: Company A in Sharon’s paratroop battalion, led by its commander, Meir Har-Zion. On a spring night in 1954, Har-Zion led his team onto the Golan. They rigged the bugging unit to the telephone pole, buried the bulky transmitte...

…t decorated, and respected, commando unit in the army: Company A in Sharon’s paratroop battalion, led by its commander, Meir Har-Zion. On a spring night in 1954, Har-Zion led his team onto the Golan. They rigged the bugging unit to the telephone pole, buried the bulky transmitte...

“Tell Motta we know about it,” I said. “We’ve planned for it. It’s not a problem.” I figured there were at most four or five Lebanese soldiers manning the checkpoint. The last thing they’d want to do is get involved in a firefight between us and the Syrians. But Motta’s reply was...

…’t begin until September, and it had been assumed at first that the operation would happen before then. But even though Meir Amit was pressing the rest of the military brass for a final go-ahead, it still hadn’t arrived by early August. Avraham decided he needed a fall-back plan....

…from his work on the kibbutz. He had a deep, resonant voice and wise-looking, blue-gray eyes. It was only through Uncle Meir that by the time I was born, he had moved on from driving a tractor to a more influential role on the kibbutz. Meir worked for the Palestine Electric Compa...

During the exercise, Meir said nothing at all. I couldn’t help wondering whether, despite our nearly daily exercises, and my nightly stock-taking, I'd somehow missed an obvious detail in our planning. When we got back to the sayeret base, Avraham was waiting for us. “Well?” he as...