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…just one hitch: all senior military assignments required the formal approval of the chief-of-staff, my old friend Raful Eitan. Raful did manage to delay things for several weeks. At one point, he even brought to bear a quality I’d never suspected he had: a sense of humor. “OK, Pl...

…m was Manno Shaked, the officer who had phoned me to tell me about the Sabena hijacking and who had now succeeded Raful Eitan as katzhar, overall chief of the infantry and paratroopers. Beside him were the two Mossad officers with whom I’d had most of my dealings about Beirut. Th...

… head of the central command; and Rabin’s military aide, Kuti Mor. Also included were longtime political and media aide Eitan Haber, and another trusted political adviser thousands of miles away: Itamar Rabinovich, our ambassador in Washington and Israel’s leading Syria expert. B...

…ogether. Motta’s term as chief of staff would end the following year. Among those in the frame to succeed him was Raful Eitan. Recalling Raful’s dismissive, almost sneering, opposition to my making the Sayeret Matkal into Israel’s SAS, I wasn’t exactly confident I could count on...

…d Major General, with our then Defence Minister Ariel Sharon, Sharon turned to me and the army’s Chief of Staff, Rafael Eitan, and said: “Tell me. Why the hell is Arafat still alive?” He looked first at Raful, then at me, and added: “When I was 20 years younger than you are, I ne...

…ernment. There was only one vote against, from a former chief of staff who was now Shamir’s Agriculture Minister: Raful Eitan. I was one of rare instances in all my years in the army when I took a step back, appreciating a moment which felt special. It was not only, or even main...

…m was Manno Shaked, the officer who had phoned me to tell me about the Sabena hijacking and who had now succeeded Raful Eitan as katzhar, overall chief of the infantry and paratroopers. Beside him were the two Mossad officers with whom I’d had most of my dealings about Beirut. Th...

…ned. Rabin was bitterly upset. He didn’t tell me directly. But when the meeting broke up, his longtime political aide, Eitan Haber, took me aside to tell me how that what I’d done was “terrible”. Giora Einy came to see me the next day, after Rabin had phoned him in a mix of ange...