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…Tel Aviv. Israel did secure control of the entire Galilee, up to the pre-war borders with Lebanon and Syria, and of the Negev Desert in the south. The territory of our new state was about a third larger than the area proposed under the UN partition plan rejected by the Arabs. Yet...

…her the elder President Bush, whose election defeat to Bill Clinton came just two days before our final exercise in the Negev, would have agreed with the attack. After the victory in the Gulf War, Bush had deliberately stopped short of sending American forces on to Baghdad. He wa...

…her the elder President Bush, whose election defeat to Bill Clinton came just two days before our final exercise in the Negev, would have agreed with the attack. After the victory in the Gulf War, Bush had deliberately stopped short of sending American forces on to Baghdad. He wa...

…e as chief of staff. It began with the gruesome death of five Sayeret Matkal soldiers during a training exercise in the Negev desert. I’d made preventing such accidents a top priority. By the end of the 1980s, they were claiming as many as 80 lives a year. During Dan’s tenure, we...

not just on the West Bank but into the Negev. Eshkol’s cabinet

…ttalion was based, alongside the country’s main armored brigade, in a huge, hillside army camp outside Beersheva in the Negev. I knew that our fironut — basic training — would be tough. That was the whole point. But we endured a seemingly endless array of inspections, under the w...

driving south from Jerusalem into the Negev and the Judean

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

and of the Negev Desert in the south. The territory of our

awkward kibbutz teenager at APC boot camp in the Negev; through my

the command post in the Negev was receiving the first

not just on the West Bank but into the Negev. Eshkol’s cabinet

Israel’s Negev reconnaissance and tracking unit. He

and get our unit out safely again. The Negev

and the Negev. Beyond the political implications