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to-air missiles to the bank of the Suez Canal after the truce in the War of
document IMAGES-009-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_027997.txt House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

…t “matkal” is the Hebrew word for the general staff, since it was the generals in military headquarters who had allowed Avraham Arnan to create the unit. From the start, we had answered directly to the kirva, which ultimately had to approve our operations. When I rushed back from...

One of the captured Golani soldiers was a 19-year-old named Uri Ilan, the
document IMAGES-001-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_011529.txt House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

…attack. But they decided the price of possible failure was simply too high. Sayeret Matkal was born three years later. Avraham was still part of the unit running low-level agents in Syria and Lebanon, but his commander reluctantly agreed to allow him to set up his new intelligen...

One of the captured Golani soldiers was a 19-year-old named Uri Ilan, the
document IMAGES-009-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_027906.txt House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

…attack. But they decided the price of possible failure was simply too high. Sayeret Matkal was born three years later. Avraham was still part of the unit running low-level agents in Syria and Lebanon, but his commander reluctantly agreed to allow him to set up his new intelligen...

the go-ahead. Still, he was convinced that if we could demonstrate a toughness
document IMAGES-009-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_027907.txt House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

…ost of the men were Sephardi Jews. For a unit like ours, with the aim of undertaking secret missions in Arab countries, Avraham believed that a background in Arabic culture and language was an important asset. I was the sayeret’s only lock-picker. But all of us had been recruited...

attempt to help put us on the political offensive, after I was asked to record on of
document IMAGES-001-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_011762.txt House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

…al journalist, Dan Margalit. Still, it would place Shimon and Bibi side by side. We spent two days prepping Peres, with Avraham Burg — an early Peace Now supporter, former Peres aide and Knesset member — standing in for Bibi. Avraham played the role well, anticipating the lines o...

Challenging though our training was, I found every bit of it enthralling and
document IMAGES-009-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_027910.txt House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

…rating. This was all the more remarkable because we had still yet to carry out a single operation. If anyone other than Avraham had been in charge, I think the unit might have unraveled. The fact that it didn’t was mostly due to of the ethos he created, the feeling that we were a...