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…y confident of success, we would negotiate. Now that we knew where Waschsman was being held, I ordered Shaul Mofaz, the commander with responsibility for the West Bank, to prepare for a possible rescue. Before going to brief Rabin, I arranged for another commando unit to begin v...

…’s passing, it was decidedly suspicious as noted by William Ritchie: (The Washington Post prints) “As a former homicide commander, | am stunned that no autopsy was ordered for Justice Scalia,” William O. Ritchie, former head of criminal investigations for D.C. police, wrote in a...

… was nearly destroyed. But almost two dozen of Eitan’s reservists had been killed. A few days later, I learned that the commander of the Centurions had also been killed. His name was Shamai Kaplan. Though I didn’t know him personally, he was married to one of my kibbutz “sisters”...

…to be ready for the crossing. When I reported that three of my soldiers were still missing, I was ordered to inform the commander of the battalion replacing us to find the missing men. The fight for the Chinese Farm was still not over. It would be another 12 hours before, in a co...

…ew moments. I could see that Uzi, Mookie and Bibi were shocked at having heard me speak in this way to three of the top commanders of the armed forces. But I meant every word. If Sayeret Matkal was to function as a special-forces unit, it needed to have the trust of those who’d a...

…otivated man with a burning desire to climb to the top of the Nazi hierarchy. A clear path opened when he was appointed commander of the Polish prison Treblinka. Unbeknownst to Stangl, Treblinka was one of the Nazi’s concentration death camps. To fulfill his desire for power ther...

…de — I paid tribute to “that one special person who had a unique role in our reaching this moment — somebody who was my commander and guide, and the person who led me into politics: Yitzhak Rabin. I pledged to fulfil his legacy, and complete the work he’d started. And I extended...

… of a post-verdict riot, utterly furious. But where were the cops? They were all fuming /ns/de City Hall-- where their commander had instructed them to stay—-armed prisoners watching helplessly as angry demonstrators broke the glass trying to ram their way through the locked doo...

… the way, then a line of halftracks, and more tanks at the rear. I nosed our Jeep into the middle, behind the battalion commander, a lieutenant- colonel named Ze’ev Eitan. There were scattered groups of Egyptian soldiers on either side of us, and they aimed an occasional burst of...

…e breach if Arafat faltered. Israel needed to find an answer for all these threats. Uzi Yairi’s term as Sayeret Matkal commander had by now ended, but his successor was someone I knew well. Menachem Digli was the officer on whom I’d bestowed my stolen Syrian Mercedes at the end...

… the way, then a line of halftracks, and more tanks at the rear. I nosed our Jeep into the middle, behind the battalion commander, a lieutenant- colonel named Ze’ev Eitan. There were scattered groups of Egyptian soldiers on either side of us, and they aimed an occasional burst of...

…its nuclear programme. Maybe Egypt could help. Both Egypt and Iran have denied a report that General Qassem Suleimani, commander of the Quds force, a division of the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, and the man responsible for Iran's military operations in Syria, visit...

…nce, an extraordinary array of stories has grown up around the sayeret’s final and best-known mission during my term as commander, culminating in the dramatic version in Stephen Spielberg’s movie Munich. | remember reading in one earlier book, otherwise surprisingly accurate, abo...

…them. Memarian spent part of his mandatory military service in Tehran writing speeches for a senior Revolutionary Guard commander who routinely attacked the craven immorality of the "Global Arrogance" (i.e., the United States). "His filmi [the person who brought him bootlegged fi...

…in his everyday officer’s uniform, unlike the sayeret team, which was weighted down by special-forces gear. As a former commander of the sayeret, he persuaded them he could help take out the terrorists and locate the hostages. Shortly before dawn, led by Amiram Levin, they attack...