Results for “Golan Heights”

… a source of inspiration, and a call for action. The Yoni who rebuilt a tank battalion reduced to ashes and dust on the Golan. And there was the Yoni at peace. Tranquil. At home. With his pipe and his phonograph records, out of uniform. We saw him in his hours of supreme achievem...

…eak in those relationships: an end to the Syrian alliance with Hezbollah and Iran. Otherwise Israel would be giving the Golan, in effect, to Iran—a suicidal act. No Israeli government would do it, which suggests that negotiations with Assad would have no purpose. Assad may indee...

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...

…t Assad was holding firm on his insistence that without our “deposit,” without a prior agreement that he’d get back the Golan, there could be no substantive progress. This was particularly frustrating because I was getting reports from our intelligence services, and 329 HOUSE_OV...

…e intelligence missions now required were going to be a lot tougher. Israel now had control of the entire Sinai and the Golan. To tap into enemy communications, we would have to push deeper inside Egypt and Syria. Soon after my return, we began planning the sayeret’s most ambiti...

…d been lab partners. The other was Rafi Friedman, our paramedic, who had been with me on several of our missions on the Golan. Avraham arrived at the base around noon. I got a Jeep and we set off. We crossed into Egypt around four o’clock in the afternoon and headed for the fiel...

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…forts with him. But so far, his true intentions had never been fested, beyond his obvious determination to get back the Golan. Nor had Arafat’s, beyond his focus on the detail and extent of West Bank redeployments. President Clinton did not object to an early effort to reopen ou...

…a, he asked me to unfold the map I'd brought with me and talk him through, step by step, how we planned to get onto the Golan, plant the bugging device, and get back 66 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_027914

…eaders had learned: a deal might be possible, but only if Israel was willing to commit in advance to pulling out of the Golan. Assad told Lauder to come back to him with a detailed map setting out Bibi’s view on delineating the Israeli-Syrian border under a peace agreement. Thoug...

…mselves. I was confident that if we did have to go to war again, the equipment we installed, along with the bugs on the Golan, would give us an essential edge. But in truth, I didn’t actually believe there would be another war. Sure, the threat was still there. Egypt, in particul...

…der was an equally forbidding figure. Avraham Yoffe had served in the British artillery in the Second World War and the Golani Brigade in 1948. He used to joke with other officers that while they looked like a bunch of kids, he was the only one with the true bearing of a general....

…ches of the Jordan River, an important water source for Israel was well. In a series of exchanges, Syrian troops on the Golan fired on Israeli tractors in the demilitarized zone below, and began shelling our argicultural settlements in the Galilee, while we responded with tank fi...

…f Lebanon. I’d met their Syrian inhabitants when I helped “capture” the villages at the very end of the 1973 war on the Golan. When Syria now publicly supported Hizbollah’s efforts to get the UN to say the area was in fact part of Lebanon, I decided to call their bluff. Through t...

… the same reason I’d escaped being locked up on General Yoffe’s orders as a gasoline thief. Had we been captured on the Golan, the very future of the sayeret as an operational intelligence unit would have been put at risk. Tzur, and Ben-Gurion as well, would have faced a reopenin...