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Dagan was assigned to the paratroopers and served in the brigade recon unit. He underwent an infantry officer’s course and was discharged with the rank of lieutenant in 1966. In the Six-Day War, he was called up for reserve duty and served as the commander of a paratroop company. He fought first in Sinai and then on the Golan Heights. “Suddenly we
... See moreRonen Bergman • Rise and Kill First: The Secret History of Israel's Targeted Assassinations
Ben-Gurion was determined to snuff out any remaining embers of the Irgun and the Lechi, and he convinced the cabinet to give him broad powers to end acts of terrorism, including administrative detention without trial. The era of the Jewish underground,…
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Daniel Gordis • Israel: A Concise History of a Nation Reborn
None of us had trained on them. But many of the air marshals on board all El Al flights were Sayeret
Ehud Barak • My Country, My Life
Ami Pedahzur
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Dr. Schanzer describes a head-spinning web of financial and personal connections between BDS and supporters of terrorism.
Noa Tishby • Israel: A Simple Guide to the Most Misunderstood Country on Earth
As the director of Islamic Theology of Counter Terrorism, terrorism expert Noor Dahri writes: “Yasser Arafat was a fake hero, a lord of corruption and a true godfather of Palestinian terrorism.”7
Noa Tishby • Israel: A Simple Guide to the Most Misunderstood Country on Earth
An Egyptian battleship, The King Farouk, anchored near Gaza, and the Israeli Navy planned to attack it with a torpedo. Yohai Ben-Nun (who in the 1960s became commander of Israel’s naval forces as a rear admiral) volunteered to fire the torpedo. He was certain that the Egyptian vessel would be hit and that its sailors would jump overboard. If this h
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