Where Meir Har-Zion appears
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…d, and respected, commando unit in the army: Company A in Sharon’s paratroop battalion, led by its commander, Meir Har-Zion. On a spring night in 1954, Har-Zion led his team onto the Golan. They rigged the bugging unit to the telephone pole...
…etected. But we were not only equipped to fight if necessary. From the unit’s earliest days under the sway of Meir Har-Zion, Kapusta and Gibli and Errol and the other grizzled vets from Unit 101 and Company A, we had been steeped in the spi...
…tting every town or village, hilltop or dry creek bed, to memory before we set off. I can still remember what Meir Har-Zion told us: to be truly prepared, you needed to spend “an hour for an hour” – an equal time mastering the lay of the la...
…he most respected commando in Israel, a man who Dayan would later call the country’s greatest soldier. It was Meir Har-Zion himself. * * * I was part of the second group of recruits to Sayeret Matkal, in the early summer of 1960. The unit h...
1954, Har-Zion led his team onto the Golan. They rigged the bugging unit to the telephone pole, buried the bulky transmitter and made their way back. And it worked. Israeli intelligence could listen in to military communications on the Heig...
…he most respected commando in Israel, a man who Dayan would later call the country’s greatest soldier. It was Meir Har-Zion himself. I was part of the second group of recruits to Sayeret Matkal, in the early summer of 1960. The unit had bee...
One of the captured Golani soldiers was a 19-year-old named Uri Ilan, the son of a member of the Israeli Knesset whom Ben-Gurion and the whole of the government knew well. The soldiers’ captivity dragged on until they were finally returned...
