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We had just a few hours to adapt the original plan. Although we’d trained in close-quarters fighting for my plan to attack the officers’ club near Damascus, we'd never had to use that skill in a live mission. Nor had we ever used the Berettas. While we’d disguised ourselves as en...

…, a young soldier was surrounded by a crowd of Palestinians and stabbed. He opened fire, wounding two of the attackers. Yitzhik Mordechai, now the head of the southern command, told reporters that his troops were under “strict orders to open fire only if their lives are under thr...

… use. To my right, I could see that the APCs had completed their first evacuation run and were coming back for more of Yitzhik’s men. There was a raggedness about it all: one APC, then a couple of others, then a gap, then another one or two. They were doing whatever they could,...

with terms of a proposal under which Yitzhik would

at least in the first round. Yitzhik’s pulling out would help. But

… use. To my right, I could see that the APCs had completed their first evacuation run and were coming back for more of Yitzhik’s men. There was a raggedness about it all: one APC, then a couple of others, then a gap, then another one or two. They were doing whatever they could,...

Barely two months after the ambush operation in south Lebanon, Black September seized and murdered members of the Israeli team at the 1972 Olympics in Munich. As soon as the news broke on the morning of September 5, I phoned Ahrahle Yariv as head of military intelligence. “You n...

Barely two months after the ambush operation in south Lebanon, Black September seized and murdered members of the Israeli team at the 1972 Olympics in Munich. As soon as the news broke on the morning of September 5, I phoned Ahrahle Yariv as head of military intelligence. “You n...

safe, “unconnected” neighbor.'*? The heat transfer had a simple message: Nothing is safe. Why put such effort, worthy of the deepest physics problems, into the challenge of sneaking into a cellphone undetected? Well, for Seaborn and Dullien, the drive was part of a “discover and...

result immediately as a warning to possibly affected victims, but the exploit hummed at such a basic level of the system that it proved impossible to fully patch. It was like trying to patch physics. Connection changes the nature of an object. This has a particular impact on the...

…ongside two of our crippled tanks there was still a group of a dozen men: six crew members from my battalion and six of Yitzhik’s men. It took nearly two hours to get them out. We used our tank guns to try to reduce the intensity of the fire from the Egyptians around them. I orde...

…t if he’d known what happened to the Israeli forces that had already tried to take it over, he would never have allowed Yitzhik to go in without adequate armor and artillery support. Still, he blamed himself. In obvious distress after the war, he was reassigned as an operational...

…t if he’d known what happened to the Israeli forces that had already tried to take it over, he would never have allowed Yitzhik to go in without adequate armor and artillery support. Still, he blamed himself. In obvious distress after the war, he was reassigned as an operational...

…ongside two of our crippled tanks there was still a group of a dozen men: six crew members from my battalion and six of Yitzhik’s men. It took nearly two hours to get them out. We used our tank guns to try to reduce the intensity of the fire from the Egyptians around them. I orde...