Sublime

Dekel Publishing House

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

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

This specialist unit, under the command of Avraham Arnan, was subordinated to the director of AMAN and evolved, after a few years, into the elite unit known as Sayeret Matkal.

Munya Mardor, founder of Rafael (the Armament Development Authority) wrote in his diary on May 28, 1967, “When I came to the assembly hall, I found [name deleted] inspecting a group of technicians who were active in assembling a secret weapon that they had designed and produced before the outbreak of the war. Members of the team were aware of the v

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