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…at the start of the invasion and was part of the push north to the capital. At his side was Amir Drori, the head of the northern command. They had set up a rooftop observation post just a few hundred yards in from where I had landed with my Sayeret Matkal team a decade earlier fo...

… sophisticated Israeli radar and guidance technology and designed to deal with the missile threat from Hizbollah on our northern border and Hamas in Gaza. It had not yet been used in battle. But from test firings, we were confident it could destroy incoming rockets with nearly 90...

…cess is compromised. It is replete with specific examples of wildlife on the brink (from the black-footed ferret to the northern white rhino) and the impact of wildlife diseases (amphibians with Chytrid disease and bats with white-nose syndrome)." "Genetic Rescue also presents a...

…iew myself as a serious candidate at this stage. Moshe’s own preference seemed to be either Amir Drori, the head of the northern command during the Lebanon War, or Amnon Lipkin, the veteran paratroop commander who’d been with me on the Rue Verdun raid in Beirut. My own hope was t...

…ogram: H.R.2353) that would have reduced federal dollars for the Virgin Islands Defeated attempt by American Samoa and Northern Mariana to reallocate percentage of funding going to the USVI for other small territories Secured Commitment from Army Corp of Engineers for increased...

…ed, a bit grandiosely, Mivam el Yam: from sea to sea. We had to find our way from the Mediterranean, near Haifa, across northern Israel to a lake which was a sea only in name, the Sea of Galilee. It lasted three days. We were placed in teams of four. We were each given a topograp...

…ng demands for regime change was too much. They saw how Iran's influence has grown in Shiite-majority Iraq, along their northern border, and they were not prepared to let that happen again. As for the U.S., the Saudis saw calls for reform as another in a string of disappointments...

35 politically as well as by geography, thus freeing Israel to concentrate on the northern threats and opportunities. Israel and the Great Powers The threat to Israel rarely comes from the region, except when the Israelis are divided internally. The conquests of Israel occur w...

…biomes will be regularly reconfigured. One such setup will use cross sections of Arctic perma- frost, transported from northern Canada, so researchers can study how it reacts to rising tempera- tures: As the permafrost thaws, how much methane gas will be released? How will bacte...

…sty that had ruled China for nearly 200 years collapsed in the face of an invasion by wild Manchurian soldiers from the northern plains. The Song leadership - along with its best minds and cultural figures - fled south from Beijing for a thousand miles, until they were safely on...

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…ain. During its expansionary phase, the Ottoman Empire sought to dominate the eastern Mediterranean as well as both its northern and southern coasts. One thrust went through the Balkans toward central Europe. The other was toward Egypt. Inevitably, this required that the Ottomans...

…t Israelis were coming to realize was impossible as long as our soldiers remained in Lebanon. But the rocket attacks on northern Israel did stop, with very few exceptions, for a period that lasted nearly two years. The intifada, however, had not stopped. Nor, as I knew from my i...

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…w ground-to- ground missile, not yet formally in service, which had been sent into Lebanon without our knowledge by the northern command. While that trouble was averted, much worse lay ahead. Yanoush asked to be brought up to date on our progress in taking control of the area ar...