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

Meir Amit’s successor as Head of Military Intelligence

where Golda Meir had become Prime Minister after

Dayan and ultimately Prime Minister Meir – were still

…rea, committing every town or village, hilltop or dry creek bed, to memory before we set off. I can still remember what Meir Har-Zion told us: to be truly prepared, you needed to spend “an hour for an hour” — an equal time mastering the lay of the land to the amount you’d need to...

2] Article 7. Hurriyet Why Golda Meir was right Burak Bekdil August 23, 2011 -- It has been more than two and a half years since Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan told to Israeli President Shimon Peres’s face, “You (Jews) know well how to kill.” Prime Minister Erdogan has...

…t 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 mount an operation, at least to make...

… Ze’evi as well, the head of the central command area, which included Tel Aviv. So was Ahrahle Yariv, who had succeeded Meir Amit as head of military intelligence, and nodded glumly as I joined them. The plane had landed. A Sabena Boeing 707 bound from Brussels to Tel Aviv, it h...

…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 summer of 1960. The unit had been given its own base barely a...

…chance that Israel will launch a strike by next July.” That would be next month. It might also be worth recalling that Meir Dagan, the former head of Israel’s Mossad spy agency, declared last month that attacking Iran would be “a stupid idea.” He suggested his main worry was not...

…atives would be staying in five-star hotels. "There's a number of reasons that Iranian intelligence has suffered," says Meir Javedanfar, an Iranian-born analyst who lectures at the Interdisciplinary Center in Herzliya, Israel. "No. 1," he says, "is the 2009 uprisings in Iran." Th...

…, he turned and told me about the first time he’d heard it. It was on the train ride into Crimean exile with Itzila and Meir in the early days of the First World War. The train took five days to reach the Crimea and sometimes halted for hours at a time. Every evening, a man at th...

…ives would be staying in five-star hotels. ““There’s a number of reasons that Iranian intelligence has suffered,” says Meir Javedanfar, an Iranian-born analyst who lectures at the Interdisciplinary Center in Herzliya, Israel. “No. 1,” he says, “is the 2009 uprisings in Iran.” Th...

…t 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 mount an operation, at least to make...

…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 summer of 1960. The unit had been given its own base barely a...