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I was spending most of my time in the Airya

place in the Airya. | realized I was the only available replacement with a similar background, and sayeret experience. But I was still gaining brigade command experience. And I couldn’t help feeling the role was intended as a kind of rest- and-recovery cure because of my illness,...

…ambitious, ill-planned and ultimately disastrous war in Lebanon. I became part of months of planning discussions in the Airya before our tanks finally rumbled across the northern border on the morning of June 6, 1982. 191 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_011662

…er of Beirut airport. “You were right,” I told Uri and Yossi. They had been in charge of the simulation exercise in the Airya, predicting how Arik’s ostensibly more limited invasion plan would inevitably develop into Big Pines. Even as we were talking, 201 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_028049

…resident. During the several weeks that followed, there was a confident feeling among Arik and his inner circle in the Airya. To the extent that Arik and Raful saw any cloud on the horizon, it was their concern about “several thousand” Palestinian fighters who they were certain...

…er of Beirut airport. “You were right,” I told Uri and Yossi. They had been in charge of the simulation exercise in the Airya, predicting how Arik’s ostensibly more limited invasion plan would inevitably develop into Big Pines. Even as we were talking, 201 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_011672

…few months and have another attempt. After all, the part of the operation that had been causing the most concern in the Airya — our ability to get deep inside Egypt undetected — had succeeded. We were nearly three hours behind schedule. Unless we worked a lot more quickly than pl...

…ge electricity cable, and on the main oil pipeline from Suez City to Cairo. Still, for many weeks, the answer from the Airya was no. The man who had succeeded Rabin as chief-of-staff after the war, Chaim Bar-Lev, dismissed it as “a plan built on chicken legs.” In the end, what g...

…tely summoned back to Jerusalem for an emergency meeting of the government. As he was on his way back from there to the Airya, Kuti called me back down to his office. “Motta just told them that there is a military option,” he said, with a wry smile. Kuti had been a Haganah office...

…ambitious, ill-planned and ultimately disastrous war in Lebanon. I became part of months of planning discussions in the Airya before our tanks finally rumbled across the northern border on the morning of June 6, 1982. 191 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_028039

…e to trade the Golan for a peace treaty. Our key meeting took place in early February, in the underground bunker in the Airya. Peres asked Amnon Lipkin, as chief of staff, and our other top generals for a presentation on their view of the security arrangements required with Syria...

…ish Sabbath, sitting with Rabin, who was then Israel’s Defence Minister. Our offices were along the same hallway of the Airya, the ministry’s headquarters in the heart of Tel Aviv. Rabin had a very low table in his office, with two chairs. We would sit across from each other, eac...

… the extent those around me would have taken note — family, university classmates, sayeret comrades, or officers in the Airya — my slight emotional aloofness, my focus on simply getting things done, and the way I internalized setbacks, even tragedies like the death of Nechemia Co...

…ish Sabbath, sitting with Rabin, who was then Israel’s Defence Minister. Our offices were along the same hallway of the Airya, the ministry’s headquarters in the heart of Tel Aviv. Rabin had a very low table in his office, with two chairs. We would sit across from each other, eac...

… of an opportunity for peace. He was also one of the few to have left office without blemish. “By the time I got to the Airya, I already knew 80 percent of what I could about what was going on,” he said. “Then I’d spend six or seven hours reading intelligence material, to fill in...