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Israel's strategic problem was this: So long as Egypt was in the Sinai

I’d be coordinating and implementing Israel’s Sinai withdrawal.

then nothing will work. It's time for Sinai to flourish

Israel was in control of Gaza and the whole of the Sinai.

the Sinai War touched me directly. I never felt Israel’s

… post in the Sinai, part of the intelligence base our military engineers had built after the war into a 2,400-feet-high mountain called Gebel Um-Hashiba, 20 miles back from the Suez Canal. When I radioed in to tell him I’d decided to abandon the operation, I could hear the surpri...

going to happen soon, if only because the 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...

was always the principle of targeted force, the idea that we would take out targets, or defeat enemies, out of military necessity. But even on the first day of the war, it was clear that it would be by far the most consequential conflict in our country’s history. There was no mis...

Tension began building in the north in the spring of 1967, initially set off by Syrian efforts to divert water from the upper reaches 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...

my former deputy — was hundreds of miles away in the Sinai

the method is called the Sinai-Ruelle-Bowen

this game has been called Sinai’s billiards.

but Egypt’s revolution and its reduced policing in the Sinai have had a profound effect.

was the importance of the Sinai operations themselves. I was confident

was an omission I regretted when he lost his life in the Sinai Desert a