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… much older than me would have a critical role to play. I got a close-up look at the elite of the Zionist militias, the Palmach. It numbered something like 6,000, from a pre-state force totaling around 40,000. The Palmachniks were highly motivated, young political activists. They...

his Palmach commander from 1948. The Palmach had held similar

Yigal read us an account of a Palmach unit stranded on a

Avraham’s Palmach comrade from 1948. Yet winning over the

…n unsuspecting selection of senior officers whom Avraham knew. A few of them got into the spirit, like Dado Elazar, his Palmach commander from 1948. The Palmach had held similar foodfests, with delicacies grabbed from nearby kibbutzim. Dado was by this time commander of Israel’s...

… much older than me would have a critical role to play. I got a close-up look at the elite of the Zionist militias, the Palmach. It numbered something like 6,000, from a pre-state force totaling around 40,000. The Palmachniks were highly motivated, young political activists. They...

the Palmach. It numbered something like 6

Vidal Sassoon started to belt out the anthem of the Palmach.

…n unsuspecting selection of senior officers whom Avraham knew. A few of them got into the spirit, like Dado Elazar, his Palmach commander from 1948. The Palmach had held similar foodfests, with delicacies grabbed from nearby kibbutzim. Dado was by this time commander of Israel’s...

…a huge hole — in me, in all Israelis. He was an extraordinary mix of qualities: a brave officer, first in the pre-state Palmach and then the new Israeli army; a chief of staff and defense minister at critical periods in our history. Shy, even at times uncertain or hesitant, and n...

…initial “headquarters” was a sparsely furnished Tel Aviv apartment. The first people he brought in were veterans of the Palmach’s Arab Platoon, pre-state fighters who trained themselves to pass as Arabs and gather intelligence, or stage raids, behind enemy lines. Next, he invited...

…initial “headquarters” was a sparsely furnished Tel Aviv apartment. The first people he brought in were veterans of the Palmach’s Arab Platoon, pre-state fighters who trained themselves to pass as Arabs and gather intelligence, or stage raids, behind enemy lines. Next, he invited...

…as the sayeret’s only lock-picker. But all of us had been recruited in the much same way that I was. It was how the top Palmach units had been formed, and the way Sharon assembled Unit 101: friends recommending friends, in my case, my old yeled chutz schoolmate from the kibbutz....

… in the first place. It was Dado who finally replied. Sort of. Trying to defuse the tension, he told us a joke from his Palmach days. “There are two bulls who come into a field full of cows. A young one and old one. The young one says to the old guy: let’s run over there to the f...

…ered for the Haganah at age 17, a year before the 1948 war. As the losses mounted in Jerusalem, he found himself in the Palmach’s crack Harel Brigade, under the command of a future Israeli chief-of-staff, Dado Elazar. His vision for Sayeret Matkal became Israel’s answer to the d...