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Othman was the director of the Syrian Atomic Energy Commission.
Ronen Bergman • Rise and Kill First: The Secret History of Israel's Targeted Assassinations
Natan Sharansky, a world-renowned human rights activist
Noa Tishby • Israel: A Simple Guide to the Most Misunderstood Country on Earth
During Harkabi’s term as director of AMAN, the rift between the IDF, AMAN, and the political echelon was mended. The IDF embarked on a process of preparing for war, based on the estimate that a “second round” should be expected. For this purpose, an ongoing intelligence effort of aerial mapping was undertaken during the year 1955. In June 1955, a c
... See moreEphraim Lapid • The Israeli Intelligence Community
My company was part of Brigade 401, in the Sinai. It was one of two armored forces that were rotated every three months into action on the front line. In a stroke of good fortune, the brigade commander was Dovik Tamari, Avraham Arnan’s first successor as commander of the sayeret. While we awaited our forward deployment, due in September, he include
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Some Of My Best Friends: A Journey Through Twenty-First Century Antisemitism (The Berlin International Center for the Study of Antisemitism (BICSA) / Studies ... zum Antisemitismus Book 4)
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Rabbi Irving “Yitz” Greenberg, all human beings are endowed with three “intrinsic dignities”: infinite worth, equality, and uniqueness.10
Shai Held • Judaism Is About Love: Recovering the Heart of Jewish Life
We were a group of some twenty students. Among us, there were ex-servicemen from the British armed forces (Y. Lipschitz, Romek Fein, and Adam Schatkai, who was an RAF pilot). In addition, there were ex-servicemen from the Palmach (reservists Nathan Sharon and Daniel Reich) and active members of the Haganah. There was also a deaf student called Emma
... See moreUriel Bachrach • The Power of Knowledge - HEMED
After the end of the War of Independence, Shtrikman changed his family name to Sharon and started to work on his PhD dissertation at the faculty of agriculture in Rehovot. Thereafter, he joined the Weizmann Institute in Rehovot, was promoted to the rank of professor, and gained a worldwide reputation based on his research on lectins and carbohydrat
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I was asked by Oded Messer, operation officer of Yitzhak Sadeh, to bring our M-2 mortars to another battlefield, Iraq al-Manshiyya. We fired several shells from this canon, which had a barrel made from a train wagon axle. This weapon was quite effective. It was not heavy and could be carried by hand, unlike the M-3, which was heavy and dangerous. I
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