Sublime

That group had paid a substantial amount of money so that their members could visit and inspect the department that dealt with ground-to-air missiles. Somehow Epstein’s group was mistaken for the paying group, so they received detailed information concerning the newly developed rockets. As a result, the Angel and the Lightning (“Bazak” in Hebrew) r

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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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The two columns of the battalion were to rendezvous at the Khan Yunis railway station, but the closer the tanks drew to Beni Souhila, the fiercer grew Egyptian opposition and the more difficult it became to force a passage. Tanks lost their way in the narrow alleys on the outskirts of Beni Souhila. Yossi Algamis’ tanks, as part of the brigade recon

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And that was enough. In early 1954, only five months after Unit 101 had been established, Dayan merged it with the Paratroopers Brigade, with Sharon as one of the battalion commanders. Dayan believed that Unit 101 had become a model—of training and discipline, of dedication and skill—that Sharon could replicate with the paratroops and then in the e

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