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+Finally, if our cover is broken, or if you hear
+gunfire, we all storm the plane. Along with the
+tension, I had a keen awareness of everything happening around me, almost as
+if I was watching things in slow motion, in high resolution. When our
+motorcade approached the generator, Rifa'at leaned out from the co-pilot's
+window. He was pointing a pistol at us. He seemed to be in his late 20s or early
+30s.

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+He nodded in gratitude when he'd finished, and returned to
+Bibi's team on the far wing. From my initial position beside the plane, I saw Danny
+Yatom and his team begin to move one of the tall ladders toward the front door. Shifting my eyes toward the wing doors as the "crucial first five seconds" ticked
+by, I saw both the ones on my side of the plane were still shut. When I got to the smaller, rear door I saw the main one cave inward
+and Mordechai Rachamim rush in. Within seconds, Uri
+Koren...

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+Even if we were never again called upon
+to free a hijacked airplane, I assumed we would face other operations which
+were equally urgent, without the weeks or even months of preparation we'd
+always insisted on in the past.
+ %
+After the Sabena operation, I emphasized the need for us to be proactive. Even before Sabena, barely two
+weeks had gone by when I didn't go to Eli Zeira, who was in charge of the
+operations department of military intelligence, with a mission which I felt
+confident we were...

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+When I took the plan to Eli Zeira, he was reading an issue of the French
+newsmagazine l'Express and snacking on salted almonds from a dish on his
+desk. As I ran through the reason we'd come up with the plan — the bourgeoning
+power of Arafat and Fatah in Lebanon - he peered at me over his reading
+glasses and nodded. He said that Arafat was no longer the battlefield commander whose
+forces had fought Israel in Karameh. "He is
+not a target for this kind of operation."
+After the Sabena...

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+"Tell Motta we know about it," I said. It's not a
+problem." I figured there were at most four or five Lebanese soldiers manning
+the checkpoint. But Motta's reply was unequivocal. When we'd climbed through a bramble-filled ravine back into Israel, I left a
+message for Motta. On the Lebanese side, it was known as Ras Naqoura, on ours as Rosh
+Hanirkra, where the Mediterranean coastline rose dramatically to a ridge and,
+once into Israel, sloped steeply down again toward Haifa.

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+But within a minute, we spotted the
+lead Land Rover, which was soon past us on the way up to the ridge. It was
+followed by two large American cars, with the Syrian officers, and then a
+trailing security vehicle. But as we were waiting, Amit radioed me with a question from from Dado
+and Motta. One of Uzi's men,
+fluent in Arabic, tied the startled man's arms behind his back, scattered the
+sheep, and told him: "It's fine. During which,
+not once but twice, Amit told us that Dado and Motta were...

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+Both times, it was an operation that we, the ones who have to do it,
+knew could succeed. An operation on which the fate of three Israeli pilots
+depends. One of whom we know personally, and have worked with. I see this as a breach of trust." When
+neither Dado nor Motta replied, I went on: "I have to tell you openly. I could see that Uzi, Mookie and
+Bibi were shocked at having heard me speak in this way to three of the top
+commanders of the armed forces.

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+We equipped Yoni's force with a pair of Land Rovers in
+Lebanese army colors and had them hide overnight in the moshav's orchards, a
+hundred yards from the road on the Lebanese side of the frontier. What we didn't count on was a Lebanese driver, in a VW Beetle as I recall,
+puttering along the road shortly after Yoni's team crossed. Quite rightly, Yoni let him drive on. But the Lebanese motorist, as well as a group of nearby
+farmers, were suspicious enough to deliver a warning that there were a...

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+Barely two months after the ambush operation in south Lebanon, Black
+September seized and murdered members of the Israeli team at the 1972
+Olympics in Munich. As soon as the news broke on the morning of September 5, I phoned Ahrahle
+Yariv as head of military intelligence. I tried to
+persuade him that if it came down to an operation to free our hostages, Sayeret
+Matkal offered the best hope that it would not end in a bloodbath. Ahrahle told me it was
+too early to say what...

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+German government released them to meet the demands of the hijackers of a
+Lufthansa airliner the following month. Added to Israeli public's shock over the massacre, there was anger at having
+to watch the murderers go free. In the weeks afterwards, I got occasional hints
+that a sustained Israeli response was underway, though I didn't know the details. Nor that a special Mossad team was at the center of the
+operation. Yet from news reports of a series of attacks on suspected leaders of
+Black...

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+As we worked on our plan, it had
+become clear that getting into the heart of the Lebanese capital, hitting the
+apartments and getting out again without starting a minor war would be by far
+the most difficult mission we had attempted. I was on a weekend away with Nava and Michal in the Red Sea resort of
+Eilat when things suddenly began to move. At around noon on Saturday, I got a
+call from Talik's deputy in the kirya. "Ehud," he said, "we need you back here
+as soon as possible." When I asked...

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+Four more would
+remain outside to deal with the concierges or security guards or any other
+interference, and to command and co-ordinate. We'd leave the same way we
+came in, by sea. Because we're also planning to hit several other targets."
+The reason for the urgent summons was that the Mossad had confirmed all
+three Palestinians would be in their apartments in 10 days' time. In fact, one reason
+for Dado's "other targets" was to ensure that if it did, there would be successes
+elsewhere to...

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+This was an attack on a DFLP building a mile or so away in southern Beirut,
+led by Amnon Lipkin, the friend whose unit had faced one of the toughest
+battles at Karameh. Amnon's paratroop force would land with us and also pile
+into Mossad rental cars. From our first meeting, the morning after Dado gave me the go-ahead, I
+realized I would have to make at least one change to the plan to rely on the core
+Sabena team. I put the other two attack teams under a pair of young
+officers named Amitai...

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+came up with the solution, one that would have the unintended effect of
+elevating our mission further in Israeli lore. The three least burly-looking of us
+would go in as women: a boyish looking guy named Lonny Rafael, Amiram
+Levin, and me. We had black-and-white
+photos: Mohammed Youssef al-Najar, or Abu Youssef, an operations officer in
+Black September; Kamal Adwan, one of Arafat's top military planners; and
+Kamal Nasser, a member of his leadership circle and his spokesman. Nominally, it was...

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+The more difficult question for some in the unit was how we were delivering
+that message: breaking into apartments in the middle of the night. Yes, each of
+the men was almost sure to be armed. But these flats were their homes. Yet
+given the nature of Black September, that was not going to happen. For Amitai Nachmani, who would be leading the attack on one of the
+apartments, my words were not enough.

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+In fact, we left the missile boat, Manno's offshore command post, in motor
+dinghies out of earshot of Beirut and cut the engines as we got closer to the
+shore. All of us, including the "women", were wrapped in ponchos to avoid
+showing up on Rue Verdun soaking wet. The attack teams used them to conceal Uzis, explosive
+charges to blow the locks on the apartment doors if they couldn't be forced
+open, a hand grenade or two and flashlights for the dash up the stairs. One
+member of each team had a...

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+His job, along with Yoni in his expanded team,
+was to deal with Abu Youssef, the Black September operations officer. Adwan, the Fatah military man, and Kamal Nasser lived next door. Adwan,
+Amitai's target, was on the second floor. The SEAL officer and Dr Katz were near the top end of the
+street as lookouts. We seemed seconds away from what had all the makings of
+the operation we'd rehearsed back in Tel Aviv.

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+Youssef's apartment, the one Mookie and Yoni had been assigned. A Land Rover was approaching from the gendarmerie at the bottom of the
+road. Amiram and I opened fire, then
+Dov and Shmuel Katz as well. The driver lost control and crashed into the side
+of the Renault. When Mookie had
+blown open the door to Abu Youssef's flat - and he, Yoni and the other two
+members of his team ran into the apartment - he saw the Black September man
+peering out from the bedroom.

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+But we
+still had to avoid trouble on our way back out. I knew it would be a risk to go
+back to the Coral Beach, so we took the shortest route to the sea, straight out to
+the Corniche, the city's main avenue along the Mediterranean. Obviously, the police, and the Palestinian militias,
+realized something was not right. The advantage we had was that they would
+have no idea what had happened on Rue Verdun, who we were, or where we
+were going. No sooner had we joined the Corniche than I saw another...

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+The handover to my
+successor, Giora Zorea, turned out to be more elaborate than my arrival, though
+not at my instigation. With both Talik and Avraham in attendance, Dado
+presented me with my fifth tzalash. Not for the operation
+against the Syrian officers, or the unprecedented access our intelligence
+missions were providing into Egypt's military communications. When I
+replied, I am sure everyone knew I was speaking from the heart in saying that
+my every moment with Sayeret Matkal had been a...

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+nerves over military maneuvers by Anwar Sadat a few weeks earlier. But that
+had come to nothing. In no small part due to the success of the raid on Rue
+Verdun, Israel's generals believed the balance of strength and security was on
+our side and that, at least for a while, Israel could breathe a bit more easily. But we were all about to be proven spectacularly wrong.
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+Chapter Nine
+The phone rang in our apartment in Palo Alto at 4:30 in the morning. It was the Sixth of October 1973: Yom
+Kippur, the holiest date on the Jewish calendar. We had been out at a get-to-know-you event for some of the
+several dozen Israelis, and several hundred American Jewish students, at
+Stanford. 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. Motta's reply...

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+I'd
+Hebraicized it: to Barak, which seemed near enough to the original. One of them now told the El
+Al people who I was. Not only was I given a seat on the first overnight plane
+back to Tel Aviv. As we were waiting to board, I phoned Uzi Dayan and asked him to meet me
+at Lod the next morning. Syrian tanks are getting close to
+the outer fences of Nafakh" - our main command post on the Golan.

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+"We'll need each and every one of you to get the
+job done." Then he hugged me again. Though obviously aware of the seriousness of the situation,
+Dado radiated his usual calm and confidence. "Ma nishmah, Ehud? he asked, in Israelis' everyday greeting. Go see
+Tzipori." Motke Tzipori was in charge of organizing the armored units. He sent
+me to Julis, the training base between Tel Aviv and Beersheva, where tanks
+from maintenance units around the country were being brought.

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+to-air missiles to the bank of the Suez Canal after the truce in the War of
+Attrition, the Egyptians had created an effective no-fly zone a dozen miles into
+the Sinai. After the failed counter-attack, with the commander of the air force
+warning that we were nearing our minimum "red line" number of fighter jets,
+Golda contacted the Americans to propose a cease-fire in the south. But having
+retaken the Suez Canal and pushed into the Sinai, President Sadat was in no
+mood to call a halt to the...

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+the skies; strike out alone at night, with sayeret-issue night goggles, to bring
+back the surviving soldiers after we realized we'd lost one of our APCs in a
+battle with Egyptians; and even, because I'd been there before on sayeret
+missions, leading a joint armored force across the Egyptian desert to complete
+the encirclement of Sadat's Third Army and effectively end the war. Still, the memory which has stayed with me longest - summoning back all
+the miscues and misjudgements of some of...

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+Battalion 890, under Yitzhik Mordechai, were in trouble. Help
+get them out."
+I knew Yitzhik personally, from his years in the paratroopers' elite Battalion
+890. I knew the man who was now in overall command of the paratroopers even
+better: Uzi Yairi, who was in charge of Sayeret Matkal during my final years of
+reserve duty at Hebrew University. Helicoptered into the Sinai just hours
+earlier, the paratroopers had been sent to the Chinese Farm shortly before
+midnight. They weren't told of...

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+As we got closer, I could still see no sign of them. As dawn was about break,
+I radioed Yitzhik to suggest he fire off a flare, but he thought that would put
+them at even greater mercy of the Egyptians. Instead, he tossed out a smoke
+grenade. I led Company A, which included my most experienced tank
+commander, Moshe Sukenik. My aim was to engage the Egyptian fire while
+starting to evacuate Yitzhik's men to one of the long, dry, irrigation ditches, 600
+yards behind us.

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+We were being hit by small-arms and RPG fire from all sides. On the turret
+of our tank, Yishai and I were firing back, our Uzis on automatic, and throwing
+grenades. Then, from our far right flank, came the shoulder-mounted Saggers, honing in
+with their eerie blue-red glow, juddering towards us as the Egyptian soldiers
+corrected their trajectories. To my right, I could see that the APCs had completed their first evacuation
+run and were coming back for more of Yitzhik's men. I directed Moshe...

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+It was then, suddenly, that I saw Yishai had taken a bullet in the side of his
+neck. Blood was spurting from the wound. But he slipped out
+of my grasp and collapsed into Yasha Kedmi's arms. I turned toward the Egyptian soldier who
+had shot Yishai, less than 20 feet to my left. As I kept
+shooting, Yasha told me Yishai was dead.

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+Early that evening, we were ordered to rejoin Bren's division to be ready for
+the crossing. The fight for the Chinese Farm was still not over. It would be
+another 12 hours before, in a co-ordinated push by a strengthened armor and
+infantry force, Israeli forces finally drove most of the Egyptians out. Of
+Yitzhik's 300 men, nearly 40 were killed, and many others wounded. Eleven were dead,
+including Yishai Izhar and Motti Ben-Dror, our medical officer, killed while
+treating the wounded.

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+When the guns finally fell silent, I had time to give full rein to my thoughts. There were obviously fundamental questions about how the war had happened,
+starting with why we hadn't known ahead of time that two neighboring states
+were about to attack us - despite sayeret intercepts that could have given us
+time to call up all our reserves. But we already knew the human cost of those failures. Hundreds of Israeli
+soldiers had been killed. I also realized that Nava, thousands of miles away in...

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+demanded a meeting with Dado before our attack in Rue Verdun. Amit died in
+the fighting near Ismailia, at the northern end of the canal, as Arik Sharon's
+units pushed on after the crossing. The day before the end of the war, both
+Amitai and Amiram Levin were part of an operation to take over the Fayid Air
+Base across the canal. When an Egyptian RPG hit their Jeep, Amiram was
+wounded. With a few other friends who were young officers, nine of us in
+all, Ron and I embarked on a trek from the...

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+Other, much larger nations had endured months, even years, of hell
+before prevailing in such circumstances: the Soviet Union, for instance, with its
+huge strategic depth, or France, rescued by its American-led allies, during
+World War Two. But any pride in having prevailed was outweighed by simple relief Israel had
+survived. After we'd heard one too many senior officer fine-
+tuning his account with each retelling, minimizing his share for the huge losses,
+a new phrase entered Israeli army...

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+My command of Battalion 532 lasted only a few more months. On April 1,
+1974, an official commission of inquiry published its initial report on the war. It
+was scathing in its assessment of our intelligence failings, for which it placed
+the main blame the officer who had been promoted the year before as head of
+military intelligence: Eli Zeira, the man who had addressed us on the sayeret
+base before the the 1967 and so confidently predicted the outcome. In Eli's case, I recognized the very fact...

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+the war was unscathed: Motta Gur. He, too, had been in Washington. One was
+Moussa Peled, who was now made head of the armored corps. My overall
+wartime commander, Bren, replaced Gorodish as head of the southern
+command. And Dan Shomron, whose 401» armored brigade played a critical
+part in defeating the Egyptians, was another.

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+There was silence, a grave look from Peled and Bren, the hint of a smile on
+Motta's face, and the meeting was over. I would indeed be named the commander of the 401st Armored Brigade
+in the Sinai, and promoted to full colonel. Our base was a 15 miles from the canal. During
+one of our forward deployments, Motta came on an inspection visit. But when the Egyptians attacked in
+1973, we defended the desert as if it was the walls of Jerusalem!"
+Since the 401st was one of two regular brigades on the...

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+But for nearly six months, getting through the day, sometimes a
+single task, remained a struggle. No one could reasonably have held him responsible for the
+losses suffered by Battalion 890 at the Chinese Farm. I'm sure that if he'd
+known what happened to the Israeli forces that had already tried to take it over,
+he would never have allowed Yitzhik to go in without adequate armor and
+artillery support. He was still at his desk when Fatah terrorists landed on Tel Aviv's seafront a
+little before...

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+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, not too different from the reason Uzi
+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. He was a friend from
+officers' school: Dovik Tamari's younger brother, Shai.

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+But has any of you asked yourselves
+something I find myself wondering from time to time? Is there not a similar risk
+if we miss the signs of an opportunity for peace?"
+His words stuck with me for the rest of my time in public life. The inquiry material described how Sadat had been extending
+negotiating feelers before the war. And how Golda, Eli Zeira, Dado and Dayan
+had responded. Perhaps, like Eli Zeira in 1967, they assumed a kind of
+historical inevitability of Israeli triumph.

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+Chapter Ten
+Sunday is an ordinary working day in Israel, and the first sign that June 27,
+1976 would be any different came shortly after noon. It was an urgent message
+from Lod Airport, now renamed in honor of David Ben-Gurion, who passed
+away after the 1973 war. Radio contact had been lost with Air France Flight 139
+from Tel Aviv to Paris, shortly after a stopover in Athens. Many of the
+passengers were Israelis, and others were Jews from abroad. Because I'd commanded the Sabena operation - the...

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+Unlike the
+Sabena jet, this one was a wide-bodied Airbus, and El Al had none of those in
+its fleet. And even if we could take out the terrorists, we were almost certain to
+face opposition from the former army colonel who ruled Libya, Mummer
+Ghaddafy. Before leaving Libya, the hijackers freed a passenger: an
+Israeli dual national, with a British passport as well, who managed to convince
+them she was going into labor. It was a PFLP operation, but included
+members of the far-left West German...

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+Bring me suggestions
+by seven tomorrow morning." Then, he said, we would go brief the Defense
+Minister, Shimon Peres. My first calls went to Mookie
+Betzer and another of my most trusted and experienced sayeret comrades,
+Amiram Levin. Then I brought in Ido Ambar, the personal aide to air force
+commander Benny Peled, and Gadi Shefi, the commander of the Shayetet 13
+SEALs. Finally, two officers from Dan Shomron's office. That was even assuming, as I did at that point, that we wouldn't face...

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+Having moved the passengers off the plane
+to one of the terminal buildings, they were threatening to start killing them
+unless we freed a list of 53 Palestinians and PLO supporters, forty of them held
+in Israel and the rest in a number of European countries, and paid a ransom of
+five million dollars. One which seemed -
+briefly - to hold promise drew on suggestions from Ido Ambar and Mookie. Ido's almost rhapsodic description of the capabilities of our C-130 Hercules
+transport planes convinced...

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+It was a
+bit like the initial option for the Rue Verdun raid Dado had rejected: a classic
+ground assault which, in addition to eliminating any chance of surprise,
+obviously ran the risk of igniting a small ground war. In a haunting echo of the Nazis' "selection" process in the Holocaust, the
+terrorists separated all the passengers with Israeli passports or Jewish names. They let the rest of them go, and allowed them to board a special Air France
+flight back to Paris. We immediately dispatched...

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+Working with Mookie and the rest of my
+team, I'd been in charge of all the initial planning. I was in command of the
+Sabena assault, the only remotely similar operation Israel had attempted
+Though an attempt to rescue dozens of terrified hostages in Entebbe, with both
+the terrorists and possibly Ugandan soldiers armed and ready, would be much
+harder. As Sayeret Matkal commander, I'd conceived and commanded other
+missions that requiring us to break new ground. But - and it was a huge but -...

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+We spoke only briefly before he and
+Mookie drove back to the sayeret base to begin more detailed preparations. But for a variety of
+reasons, Dan wanted me in command. He and
+Mookie would choose the other officers and soldiers, decide their roles and take
+charge of training, briefing and logistics. We could talk further,
+ahead of the next full briefing, 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.

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+But otherwise, we could not
+let dozens of hostages be murdered if by talking, even deal-making, we could
+have saved them. He turned to Dan and asked whether there indeed was a
+military option with a reasonable prospect of getting the hostages out. He suggested we couldn't know
+for sure until we'd finished testing key parts of the operation. But for Rabin, it
+seemed to me Dan's was the key voice. I knew why that
+troubled him, from a remark I'd heard him make a few years earlier when
+describing...

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+Dan began the next morning's briefing with a stage-by-stage review of how
+the operation would unfold. But just as he was getting to the detail of the
+motorcade attack, I felt a young sayeret officer tap me on the shoulder. Just to tell Dan Shomron that
+you've been taken out of the operation."
+To say I was surprised would be an understatement. There was no officer to whom I was closer than Yoni. He had extraordinary
+strengths as a soldier: in the Six-Day War, in 1973, and afterwards when,...

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+part because of Bruria Shaked, his girlfriend, whom he'd met while
+commanding the tank unit after 1973. While he was a thinker and a brooder and
+in many ways a loner, Bruria was outgoing, playful, funny and full of life. She
+sensed his need for a shoulder to lean on, a hand to hold at the movies or on a
+Saturday stroll on the beach. Often on a Saturday, when Nava and
+I dropped in to see them, an old 33 rpm record would be playing on the stereo. He had looked forward to
+commanding Sayeret Matkal.