Results for “Motta”

… suddenly contacted by the sayeret officer we’d stationed in the command post back in Israel. He relayed a message from Motta Gur, the head of the northern command. Its intelligence unit said there was a Lebanese Army checkpoint a quarter-mile from the ambush site. Motta himself...

…em. Prime Minister Rabin was clearly asking himself the same question, however, because on Tuesday afternoon, he called Motta in the Negev. It was now a full 53 hours after the hijacking, he said. What the hell we were doing to try to come up with a plan? Motta was immediately su...

“Tell Motta we know about it,” I said. “We’ve planned for it. It’s not a problem.” I figured there were at most four or five Lebanese soldiers manning the checkpoint. The last thing they’d want to do is get involved in a firefight between us and the Syrians. But Motta’s reply was...

…y jolted me awake: “The boss is busy,” she said. “But he wants you to know. A war has started back home.” Her boss was Motta Gur, who was by now Israel’s military attaché in Washington and was my nominal commander for my period in the United States. “I need to talk to Motta,” I...

…y jolted me awake: “The boss is busy,” she said. “But he wants you to know. A war has started back home.” Her boss was Motta Gur, who was by now Israel’s military attaché in Washington and was my nominal commander for my period in the United States. “I need to talk to Motta,” I...

…et dark, perfect conditions for the ambush. But as we were waiting, Amit radioed me with a question from from Dado and Motta. “Where’s the armored car?” It’s still there, at the bottom of the road, I told them. “But there’s nothing it can do.” Bibi and his team had it in their s...

the war was unscathed: Motta Gur. He, too, had been in Washington. Within days of the inquiry report, he was called back to replace Dado as chief-of-staff. My role changed, too. Not everyone emerged from the war with his reputation diminished. The lion’s share of the credit for...

… third floor, but in the underground bunker, the bor. I was part of nearly all high-level planning meetings, often with Motta, sometimes also including Peres. Almost everyone around the table was older than me, and outranked me by some distance. Yet with my intelligence brief, I...

I had no direct link to Motta. Yet both he and Dado were

…ing the first two years of Begin’s rule, however, I was 7,000 miles away. Ten days before the election, I’d gone to see Motta, and he’d agreed that I could return to Stanford, to finish what I’d barely begun when the 1973 war broke out. I had been in the army, with the one hiatus...

…had been given the job. Still, I did need rest and recovery. Even if fully healthy, I’m not sure I could have convinced Motta to change his mind. In my weakened state, I had no chance. Skeptical though I was about the job, it opened up a new world to me. The kirya itself was not...

he called Motta in the Negev. It was now a full

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

and had known Motta for years. “That means we now

Amit told us that Dado and Motta were worried: about the