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vraham Aranan finally left the unit he’d imagined, created and built. He became the head of the technology unit in military intelligence. His deputy, Dovik Tamari, succeeded him, serving the first in what would become two-year stints for each of his successors as the sayeret’s commander. I, too, was given a wid
ter under Shimon Peres. But in the intervening years, Arafat was rarely off of my radar. By the early 1970s, he and his fighters had been expelled by King Hussein’s army from Jordan and were re-based in Lebanon. Arafat was becoming a significant figure on the Arab and world political stage, and an increasingly un
were rotated, every three months, into action on the front 107 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_011578 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 waited our forward deployment, due in September, he included me in his discuss
need for a special-forces unit was becoming increasingly hard to ignore. By the summer of 1971, a couple of months after I became sayeret commander, King Hussein’s army had defeated the insurgency of Fatah and a pair of even more militant partners, the Democratic Front and the Popular Front for the Liberation of
vraham Aranan finally left the unit he'd imagined, created and built. He became the head of the technology unit in military intelligence. His deputy, Dovik Tamari, succeeded him, serving the first in what would become two-year stints for each of his successors as the sayeret's commander. I, too, was given a wid
ter under Shimon Peres. But in the intervening years, Arafat was rarely off of my radar. By the early 1970s, he and his fighters had been expelled by King Hussein’s army from Jordan and were re-based in Lebanon. Arafat was becoming a significant figure on the Arab and world political stage, and an increasingly un
Entities connected to both Dovik Tamari and King Hussein’s

Lebanon
LOCATIONSinai
LOCATION
Golani
ORGANIZATION
Beirut
LOCATIONAlliance
ORGANIZATIONthe Seventh Armored Brigade
ORGANIZATIONCourtney Wild
PERSON
Eitan
ORGANIZATION
Negev
LOCATIONSayeret Matkal
LOCATIONAirya
ORGANIZATION
Saddam Hussein
PERSONAir Force
ORGANIZATIONthe State of Israel
LOCATION
Beersheva
LOCATION
Cairo
LOCATION
the Golan Heights
LOCATION
Yasser Arafat
PERSON
Golan
LOCATIONHeights
LOCATION