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Dayan and ultimately Prime Minister Meir – were still

I phoned Uzi Dayan and asked him to meet me

…ually be given a real mission. This was largely due to a change at the top 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 c...

…while it would be many years before this was openly acknowedlged, we did play an important part in the outcome. Because Dayan had been called back as Defense Minister only days before the war, he had wisely decided not to alter the plan for the preemptive air strikes. But he did...

… working. But as commander of Company A, Meir was a key part of Israel’s anti-fedayeen operations. The last thing Moshe Dayan wanted to risk was seeing him captured while trying to replace a few batteries. So he shifted the task to a regular unit from the Golani Brigade. In Dece...

…to a detailed plan on how to confront the hijackers. Nor did we have any orders. The people who would give them — Dado, Dayan and ultimately Prime Minister Meir — were still deciding how to respond. But when I reached the control tower, at about 9:30pm, the order came, if not to...

… potentially fatal repercussions for the hostages. But whatever explanation the Red Cross man was given — presumably by Dayan himself, who would not have held back in conveying what was at stake — it dissuaded him from taking further action. As we were returning to the buggies,...

…wife as they triumphantly enter the ball. It is close to 9 p.m. and Lord William Astor arrives to pick me up for Amalia Dayan and Adam Lindemann's dinner for artists uptown. Oliver is introduced to William and delights in calling him Lord as he immediately moves him into the top...

… successful Israeli bugging mission on the Golan, in addition to being the most respected commando in Israel, a man who Dayan would later call the country’s greatest soldier. It was Meir Har-Zion himself. I was part of the second group of recruits to Sayeret Matkal, in the early...

… nor anyone else in Israel had any idea about the Egyptian mobilization. He left the party as soon as he could, to tell Dayan and Ben- Gurion. When a reconnaissance flight the next day confirmed that dozens of battle-ready tanks had been rolled forward toward the Suez Canal, Ben-...

…to a detailed plan on how to confront the hijackers. Nor did we have any orders. The people who would give them — Dado, Dayan and ultimately Prime Minister Meir — were still deciding how to respond. But when I reached the control tower, at about 9:30pm, the order came, if not to...

… successful Israeli bugging mission on the Golan, in addition to being the most respected commando in Israel, a man who Dayan would later call the country’s greatest soldier. It was Meir Har-Zion himself. I was part of the second group of recruits to Sayeret Matkal, in the early...

… plane and could positively identify an armed hijacker. By now, we had three dozen soldiers and officers, including Uzi Dayan and his full team. I took all those who were already briefed and divided them into four groups, each with an officer and five soldiers and assigned to dea...

… Israel, sloped steeply down again toward Haifa. I took in two main assault teams, one led by Mookie, the other by Uzi Dayan. We hid in a tangle of bushes about halfway along the road which climbed up toward the border ridge. I stationed Bibi and his team at the bottom of the ro...

… in the field. It’s here.” I placed Yoni, who had just become my deputy, in overall command of the two main teams: Uzi Dayan’s and another led by one of our most impressive young officers, a kibbutznik named Danny Brunner. He reminded me a lot of Nechemia Cohen: he spoke little,...