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…ns storage. Five tents. Two field toilets. And a single-story brick structure with a tin roof. It contained offices for Avraham Arnan, a couple of other officers and a secretary, a kitchenette and a room for storing weapons. This was the home of Sayeret Matkal, although the first...

…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...

… were married there, in the spring of 1969. My parents and brothers came with two busloads of friends from the kibbutz. Avraham Arnan was there, of course. But Ahraleh Yariv and Eli Zeira, two of the military intelligence heroes of the Six-Day War, also drove up for the wedding,...

…e country, with watchtowers on each corner of the outer walls. The northern commander was an equally forbidding figure. Avraham Yoffe had served in the British artillery in the Second World War and the Golani Brigade in 1948. He used to joke with other officers that while they lo...

that Avraham Ramon sat down and joined us. He

would accomplish: to complete Avraham’s vision. To forge a true special-

Avraham believed that a background in Arabic culture and

Avraham was waiting for us. “Well?” he asked Meir. “They don’t

when we joined Avraham and the rest of the sayeret in a formal

Avraham even insisted on our wearing French-style berets in

Avraham asked me to share my experiences

and Avraham knew him well. His wartime division consisted of

Avraham asked me to share my experiences

Avraham asked me to share my experiences

… were married there, in the spring of 1969. My parents and brothers came with two busloads of friends from the kibbutz. Avraham Arnan was there, of course. But Ahraleh Yariv and Eli Zeira, two of the military intelligence heroes of the Six-Day War, also drove up for the wedding,...