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eace deal with Syria’s then-dying dictator, Hafez al-Assad, a few months earlier. Yet these three dedicated men — Gili, who was by training a lawyer; Shlomo, an academic; and Danny, a former Mossad chief — had just been through dozens of hours of intricately detailed talks with each of Arafat’s top negoti
Ben-Zvi.” They were two names which I, like most Israeli teenagers at the time, knew well. Ben-Zvi 04 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_011525 had been an officer in Arik Sharon’s original Unit 101, and Nachmias was one of the earliest recruits to Company A. They shook my hand and motioned me into a Jeep. As we drove out of the
assumed a kind of historical inevitability of Israeli trtumph. Though we’d ending up prevailing in 1973, it was impossible not to wonder whether, as Shlomo suggested, we had missed the signs of a possible peace beforehand. Now, however, we were facing an escalating challenge from an enemy with no intere
igation ditches, controlled the main transport corridor from the Sinai to the bank of the canal. Before dawn on October 16, one of the battalions in Arik Sharon’s brigade, under a veteran paratroop commander named Danny Matt, had managed to cross the canal on rubber rafts with an advance force of some 750 men a
eace deal with Syria’s then-dying dictator, Hafez al-Assad, a few months earlier. Yet these three dedicated men — Gili, who was by training a lawyer; Shlomo, an academic; and Danny, a former Mossad chief — had just been through dozens of hours of intricately detailed talks with each of Arafat’s top negoti
Ben-Zvi.” They were two names which I, like most Israeli teenagers at the time, knew well. Ben-Zvi 04 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_027902 had been an officer in Arik Sharon’s original Unit 101, and Nachmias was one of the earliest recruits to Company A. They shook my hand and motioned me into a Jeep. As we drove out of the
Entities connected to both Shlomo and Arik Sharon’s

Benjamin Netanyahu
PERSON
Shimon Peres
PERSON
Rabin
PERSON
Ehud Barak
PERSON
Haifa
LOCATION
Yitzhak Rabin
PERSON
the Golan Heights
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Danny Yatom
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Beersheva
LOCATIONMediterranean
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Mossad
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Bibi Netanyahu
PERSONthe West Bank
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Negev
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El Al
ORGANIZATIONSinai
LOCATIONSharon
PERSON
Fatah
ORGANIZATION
Michael Cohen
PERSON
Mishmar Hasharon
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