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ambitious. We intended to bug the communications line running east from Banias, the Syrians’ base in the north of the Golan, toward Quneitra, their main headquarters. That meant taking a longer route, beginning with a climb onto a plateau about 200 feet high and crossing the Bani...

…n the Negev, complete with special antennas to receive the intercept transmissions if we succeeded. Not since the first Golan operation had the attention of the kirya been so keen, or the stakes so high. In addition to Meir Amit, and of course Avraham, also flying down to Mount K...

…and others in Sayeret Matkal, had wanted to play our part on the battlefields of the Six-Day War — in the Sinai, on the Golan, in the bitter battle to capture Jerusalem, or amid the olive-green hills and valleys of the West Bank — we had to accept that, at most, we’d been freelan...

up to the edge of the Suez Canal. The entire Golan. The ancient lands of

dilute his focus on the Golan. “The best results are extracted from

who’d been with me on a number of Golan missions. Over

we assumed that our Golan withdrawal would come in phases

Har-Zion led his team onto the Golan. They

the Syrians’ base in the north of the Golan

and to the telephone poles on the Golan Heights.

the ninth day of the war – Israeli forces on the Golan

came down from the Golan and started making its way up alongside

of the Golan. Peres now focused on clarifying

and the Golan Heights from Syria. In the

150 square kilometres of Syrian territory on the Golan Heights.