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…t skills. Motti Nagar was born in Cairo. He was short but solidly built, smart, level-headed and almost always smiling. Kuti Sharabi grew up in a Yemeni family in an impoverished neighborhood in Tel Aviv. He had a self-deprecating sense of humor, a quick mind and sometimes even q...

…r army colonel who ruled Libya, Mummer Ghaddafy. The chance of success seemed slim, the risks enormous. Soon, however, Kuti’s question ceased to matter. Later Sunday night, Flight 139 took off again. Before leaving Libya, the hijackers freed a passenger: an Israeli dual national...

…iers and the hostages. An operation on that scale naturally meant bringing in Dan Shomron. After I’d taken the plan to Kuti Adam, he briefed Dan on the full detail and called me down to see him again. Dan had left to start preparations for the operation. He’d made just one reque...

Kuti radioed me with a terse message: the first of the

Kuti called me back down to his office. “Motta just told them that

Kuti waved both of us across the hallway to

Kuti called me back down to his office. “Motta just told them that

Kuti said: that I be in command of the sayeret force.

I felt a young sayeret officer tap me on the shoulder. Kuti had

Kuti Mor. Also included were longtime political and

…anded other missions that requiring us to break new ground. But — and it was a huge but — I knew from the moment I left Kuti’s office that I would have to find a way to avoid undermining the current sayeret commander, Yoni. Dan had clearly been aware of that as well. He’d stresse...

…ings of uneasiness in the unit might prove an additional obstacle that wasn’t worth the risk. When I tried to persuade Kuti to stick with the original plan, however, he was insistent. He told me to get ready to fly not into Uganda, but to Nairobi. I'd been re-assigned to accompa...

…nk and Gaza; my own former sayeret deputy, Danny Yatom, who was head of the central command; and Rabin’s military aide, Kuti Mor. Also included were longtime political and media aide Eitan Haber, and another trusted political adviser thousands of miles away: Itamar Rabinovich, ou...

…t skills. Motti Nagar was born in Cairo. He was short but solidly built, smart, level-headed and almost always smiling. Kuti Sharabi grew up in a Yemeni family in an impoverished neighborhood in Tel Aviv. He had a self-deprecating sense of humor, a quick mind and sometimes even q...

…ing, which Dan had set for nine o’clock on Friday morning on the sayeret base. When they left, I joined Dan, Motta and Kuti to go see Rabin. Shimon Peres was there too. He would later say that, as Defence Minister, he was a crucial voice in pressing to go ahead with the rescue m...