or officer in 1967. His name was Ron Ben-Ishai. He would go on to become a top journalist, covering the military for Israel’s best-selling newspaper, Yediot Achronot. In the early autumn of 1967, we were still transfixed by the idea of being able to visit areas of biblical Israel, which for years had been

been concocted from a patchwork of accounts long after the fact. To the extent the notion of my “fleeing” had been raised, I could only imagine that Yediot’s “sources” had misunderstood the arrival of the first medical helicopter, when the pilot was unable to see us and flew on before returning a couple

or officer in 1967. His name was Ron Ben-Ishai. He would go on to become a top journalist, covering the military for Israel's best-selling newspaper, Yediot Achronot. In the early autumn of 1967, we were still transfixed by the idea of being able to visit areas of biblical Israel, which for years had been

e talk to others who were there, like Amnon Lipkin, the current chief of staff and my former deputy, to confirm my account. The story was dropped But Yediot evidently decided not to let the facts get in the way of the "exclusive" it ran in its weekend edition on July 7. Under a banner headline - an undeni