Results for “Kirya”

…af for targeting and terrorizing the towns and villages of northern Israel. Shaul and a number of other generals in the kirya tried to make the security argument for keeping several small hilltop outposts just north of the border. But I insisted not a single Israeli soldier or em...

…ny others. I learned later that my parents had been making daily calls to Digli, who was working in intelligence in the kirya. Though he had no way of knowing where I was, he kept assuring them that he had checked with my commanders and that I was alive and well. Nava had been re...

…alms of his hands in a gesture of triumph. Since I was Defense Minister as well, I spent the hours that followed in the kirya. We ordered attack helicopters into action for the first time, though with advance warning to local Palestinians in the areas we targeted. We destroyed th...

…, I had no idea. “Wherever I can help,” I said. Uzi drove us to the bor, the bunker built two floors underground in the kirya. Usually, it functioned as the day-to-day operations center. But it was where the commanders of the armed forces operated during times of war. At officer...

… of the cabinet were so shaken by the carnage Hamas had left that they approved the idea of a security barrier. At our kirya meeting, hours after the latest bomb had exploded less than a mile away, Peres recognized we had to go further. Under Oslo, we had begun giving the Palest...

…ready bombed Saddam Hussein’s nuclear reactor without telling the Americans beforehand. Shortly after I returned to the kirya, he provoked further anger in Washington by announcing the de facto annexation of the Golan — in effect “balancing” our Sinai withdrawal with a dramatic r...

…s was a challenge all sayeret commanders faced to some extent. I had, too. But a number of the officers had gone to the kirya to urge that Yoni be replaced. He knew this. Though I tried to reassure him, telling him that every sayeret commander was different, with his own strength...

…ran, were building a nuclear reactor. I had got to know Olmert fairly well over the years, initially when I was in the kirya and both he and another rising Likud politician to whom I became closer, Dan Meridor, were members of the Knesset’s defense committee. But from the day I...

…aged in launching the invasion, became suddenly, irretrievably, irrelevant. I was at my desk on the third floor of the kirya, getting ready to go home, when the news broke: a huge bomb had exploded at the Phalangist Party headquarters in east Beirut as Gemayel was beginning to a...

…Lev line, there were Six or seven miles between outposts. A whole Egyptian brigade could pass through. Very few in the kirya, however, seemed ready to recalibrate our strategy against the Egyptians. Only later, when the damage had already been done, would it become clear that th...

…, I had no idea. “Wherever I can help,” I said. Uzi drove us to the bor, the bunker built two floors underground in the kirya. Usually, it functioned as the day-to-day operations center. But it was where the commanders of the armed forces operated during times of war. At officer...

…quisites was yet in place. Not unlike the recent Lebanon war, we were choosing between two off-the-shelf plans from the kirya. One involved using a large military force, and would almost certainly draw us into a major conflict with Syria. The other was a smaller, targeted operati...

…ry real prospect of ending the nuclear program altogether. On joining Bibi’s government, I began working, both with the kirya and the engineers and technological experts in our military industries, to make sure we had the weaponry and equipment, and an operational plan for a surg...

… able to bring in Amir Drori for a spell as his number-two. And early in 1986, he also brought Amnon Lipkin back to the kirya. Amnon was given my job, as Director of Intelligence. But I got the post which Amnon was leaving: head of the central command area. This meant that, for t...

…h of us tended to be men of a few words. Over the next few years, we would become even closer, speaking not only in the kirya or at Yitzhak’s office in Jerusalem, but also, with Nava and Leah, around the dinner table at Rabin’s apartment in Tel Aviv. 244 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_028092