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who was in charge of Sayeret Matkal during my final years of

the former Sayeret Matkal officer who was now head of the Shin Bet.

I was one of the founding core of a unit called Sayveret Matkal

a former Sayeret Matkal commander and chief of staff who

to the operational units like Sayeret Matkal. It

One of the captured Golani soldiers was a 19-year-old named Uri Ilan, the son of a member of the Israeli Knesset whom Ben-Gurion and the whole of the government knew well. The soldiers’ captivity dragged on until they were finally returned to Israel in March 1956. By then, howeve...

Ashkenazim — and their prominence and privilege had stoked increasing resentment among Israel’s disadvantaged Sephardi majority, with their roots in the Arab world and especially north Africa. Begin not only sensed this. While he’d never lost the formal bearing — or the accent —...

We were married there, in the spring of 1969. My parents and brothers came with two busloads of friends from the kibbutz. Avraham Arnan was there, of course. But Ahraleh Yariv and Eli Zeira, two of the military intelligence heroes of the Six-Day War, also drove up for the wedding...

asked what he knew about the car outside. “Nothing,” he said. “It’s not mine.” They took it away. As insistently as I, 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 J...

I got a feeling this was the Sayeret Matkal

Sayeret Matkal was part of his department. He called together all the

I’d risen through Sayeret Matkal. I knew the

I ordered a unit from Sayeret Matkal to head south

still had control. And Sayeret Matkal had expertise and experience

Jordan River from the West Bank, from which a fledgling group called Fatah, under the command of Arafat, had been staging a series of raids. In one of their most recent attacks, they’d planted land mines, one of which destroyed an Israeli schoolbus, killing the driver and one of...