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… need to do so, we would use only small, silenced Berettas — since I’d made sure the unit trained on the Berettas after Sabena. I also raised another critical condition for success. “There will definitely be an armed presence in the control tower,” I said. We needed to designate...

…t. Working with Mookie and the rest of my team, I’d been in charge of all the initial planning. I was in command of the Sabena assault, the only remotely similar operation Israel had attempted. Though an attempt to rescue dozens of terrified hostages in Entebbe, with both the ter...

… seats on the El Al flight, I was fortunate to receive a boost up the pecking order from another man in line. Since the Sabena operation, the existence of Sayeret Matkal had become a bit less secret. Still, the identity of the sayeret commander was known to just a few people outs...

…t be called in, and my instincts told me we should proceed with caution. The situation we were facing felt nothing like Sabena, much less Entebbe. Here, we had a single bus. Our troops, and in fact everyone from ministers and officials to reporters and photographers, were in a lo...

…ff discussions, flanked by Talik. Across from them 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...

…arranging for El Al to get us the ladder trucks that airline maintenance crews used, which would allow us access to the Sabena jet’s front and rear doors as well. That left me free to concentrate on preparation and training. 120 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_027968

…ecorated soldier in our country’s history. Some of the stories were actually true: that when we burst onto the hijacked Sabena airliner, for instance, we were dressed as a maintenance crew; or that, in leading an assassination raid in Beirut against the PLO group that had murdere...