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…hone facility and, with a swipe of a credit card, was soon on the line to the Prime Minister. Since the exchange was in Hebrew, I’m fairly sure anyone overhearing me had no idea what we were talking about. “I need you to come back as soon as possible,” Rabin said. I already knew,...

…rtain I became that Begin’s cabinet understood what we were planning to do. Arik’s original plan was codenamed Oranim: Hebrew for “pine trees”. It involved pushing deep into Lebanon, all the way up to the strategically critical road that ran between Beirut and Damascus. We would...

…ll: the photographs of each of my nine predecessors since 1948 as Head of the Intelligence Directorate, or Rosh Aman in Hebrew. All had come to the role with talent and dedication. All but three had either left under a shadow, or been fired. Sometimes this was because of ultimate...

…ician Doron Zeilberger now names his computer as a co-author of his papers. He calls it Shalosh B. Ekhad, a play on the Hebrew name of his IBM 3B1.) 258 The AI systems designer Roger Grosse has named two paths to this sort of wired sensibility: “Predictive Learning” and “Represen...

…he intellectual depth and subtlety of Jabotsinky —a liberal intellectual who, among other things, translated Dante into Hebrew — Begin drew his political strength from his powerful oratory, and a refusal to countenance any compromise in securing what he viewed as the ultimate goa...

…m, some 10,000 settlers streamed into Hebron, a city sacred not only to Jews but Muslims as well as the burial place of Hebrew patriarchs and matriarchs. Peace Now activists had planned a counter- protest, but Rabin denied them permission. Still, anti-settlement members of the Kn...

…d a Zionist youth group called Gordonia, which had been founded in Poland barely a decade earlier. She started studying Hebrew. Each summer, from the age of 13, she and her Gordonia friends would spend deep in the Carpathian Mountains. They worked for local Polish landowners, lea...

… innocent waiter) after the 1972 Munich Olympics. Assassinations are carried out by a very small unit dubbed Kidon, the Hebrew word for "tip of the spear." Kidon operates at a remove from the legions of Mossad employees working in less lethal fields. It would have been a unit cal...

… was dead... until the war was over.” “He was a wonderful man,” I said. “There was no one better.” When I returned to Hebrew University, the country felt completely different. It was not just the sudden realization that, in military terms, Israel had eliminated any realistic th...

…hat I’d barely begun when the 1973 war broke out. I had been in the army, with the one hiatus as a sayeret reservist at Hebrew University, since the age of seventeen. I did not regret committing myself to a life in uniform. But Stanford offered an extraordinary opportunity to bro...

…n Israeli foreign policy over nearly 3,000 years. For convenience, we will use the term "Israel" to connote all of the Hebrew and Jewish entities that have existed in the Levant since the invasion of the region as chronicled in the Book of Joshua. As always, geopolitics requires...

… proof of the old saying that it’s easier to take Jews out of the ga/ut, than take the galut out of the Jews.” Galut is Hebrew for the diaspora. “The whole Zionist project was based on the idea of taking our fate into our own hands, and actively trying to change the reality aroun...

… part of the Golani infantry brigade in the north; Sayeret 7zanhanim, was part of the paratroopers. But “matkal” is the Hebrew word for the general staff, since it was the generals in military headquarters who had allowed Avraham Arnan to create the unit. From the start, we had a...

…I said. “Boring.” Smiling, he said: “How would you feel about joining a sayeret?” The question took me by surprise. In Hebrew, sayeret meant “reconnaissance unit”. It was the name given to special units that carried out missions behind enemy lines, or under particularly exacting...

… played the violin, we hit it off immediately. He was also deaf in one ear. Languages have never been my forte. Even in Hebrew, I have a slight lisp. That made mastering Arabic even harder. Still, Amin would frequently compliment me on my accent, at which point the others in the...