No Mission Is Impossible (32 page)

Interview of Benjamin Netanyahu.

13: “Stop! Halt! Hands Up!” 1972

Argaman Yossef, “Intelligence and Israel's security,”—“Kidnapping of the Syrian Generals—Top Secret,” 1990, pp. 32–42. (h)

“Trapping the five Syrians—great victory of the Israeli Intelligence,” Yedioth Ahronoth, 22.6.1972. (h)

“Syrian Intelligence officers have more influence than other officers,” Ilan Kfir, Yedioth Ahronoth, 22.6.1972. (h)

“Frightened and distraught, the five high-rank Syrian officers were taken prisoners,” Yehezkel Hameiri and Eitan Haber, Yedioth Ahronoth, 22.6.1972. (h)

Zonder Moshe, “Sayeret Matkal, the Uzi Dayan era,” Keter, Jerusalem, 2000, pp.182–183. (h)

Kaspit Ben, Kfir Ilan, Dani Dor ed., “Netanyahu—The road to Power,” Alfa communication, Tel-Aviv 1997, pp. 68–70. (h).

“The Kidnapping of the Syrian Generals,” Yosef Argaman, Bamahane, 29.7.1987. (h)

“Heroes of operation Crate reveal: that is how we kidnapped the Syrian officers,” Shaul Shai, Moria Ben-Yosef, “Israel Defense,” Internet site, 25.3.2012. (h)

Interview of Uzi Dayan.

14: That Lady Means Trouble, 1973

Documents of the IDF Archives, file 401 (papers 4,6–16)

Bar-Zohar Michael, ed., “The Book of Valor,” Yaakov Hisday on Avida Shor, Ministry of Defense publishers, Magal, Tel-Aviv, 1977, pp. 184–187. (h)

Bar-Zohar Michael, Mishal Nissim, “Mossad—The Greatest Missions of the Israeli Secret Service,” The Quest for The Red Prince, Harper Collins, New York, 2012, pp.186–213.

“We heard a huge explosion, the building was cut in two,” Tal Zagraba, “Shavuz,” Internet site. (h)

“The autumn of ‘Spring of Youth',” Onn Levi, Davar, 23.4.1993. (h)

“Bravery does not console,” Oded Liphshitz, Al Hamishmar, 24.4.1993. (h)

“Mental strength is our weapon,” Ehud Barak, Yedioth Ahronoth, 25.4.1993. (h)

“Barak dressed like a woman entered the terrorist buildings,” Dani Sade, Yedioth Ahronoth, 25.4.1993. (h)

“General Barak, dressed like a woman, on a lovers' stroll to the terrorists' homes in Beirut,” Gil Keisari, Haaretz 11.4.73. (h)

“The raiding force captured important papers regarding the terrorist organizations in Israel and in the occupied territories,” Haaretz reporter on Arab subjects, Haaretz, 11.4.1973. (h)

“Six Israeli Mossad agents arrived in Beirut—a few days before the IDF raid,” David Herst, The Guardian, quoted in Maariv, 11.4.1973. (h)

“I heard shootings in the corridor and I said: Certainly the Israelis are attacking,” Zvi Lavi, Maariv, 13.4.1973. (h)

“If we would have learned a lesson from this,” Uri Milstein, Hadashot, 29.3.1985. (h)

“Western papers on the IDF raid in Beirut, Reuters, AFP, UPI; Daily Express, London: “The Israeli intelligence is the most efficient in the world,” as quoted in Hazofe, 12.4.1973. (h)

“I'll never forgive Ehud Barak for taking part in the killing of my husband,” D'isi Adwan, in Amman, Zoher Andreous, Maariv, 16.5.2000. (h)

“IDF Raid—Shock treatment,” Eitan Haber, Yedioth Ahronoth, 13.4.1973. (h)

“Prime minister of Lebanon demanded to fire senior officers after the raid; He retired after his demand was rejected,” News agencies in Beirut, Yedioth Ahronoth, 12.4.1973. (h)

“Israeli Agents arrived in Beirut on Friday to prepare the operation,” Arthur Chatsworth, Daily Express, as quoted in Yedioth Ahronoth, 12.4.1973. (h)

“Chief of Staff Elazar confirms important documents were captured in Beirut; 900 terrorists were hit in 1972,” Reuven Ben-Zvi, Yedioth Ahronoth, 12.4.1973. (h)

“Mission impossible in the heart of Beirut,” Dan Arkin, Maariv, 11.4.1973. (h)

“The Mercedes cars were rented in Beirut seven hours before the raid,” News agencies' correspondents in Beirut, Maariv, 11.4.1973. (h)

Interview with Kamal Adwan, a week before he was killed, Robert Stephens, The Observer, as quoted in Maariv, 15.4.1973. (h)

“The Operation in Beirut (the full story as told by the participants),” Benjamin Landau, Bamahane, 6.9.1972. (h)

Interview of Amnon Lipkin-Shahak.

Interview of Ehud Barak.

15: The Bravehearts Land in Africa, 1973

“Bridge over troubled waters,” Uri Dan, Haolam Haze, 16.9.1991. (h)

“The Crossing of the Suez Canal,” Uri Milshtein, Maariv 7.10.1974. (h)

“Luckily, Erez managed to steal 30 command cars and Nahik found the boats,” Ariela Ringel-Hoffman, Yedioth Ahronoth, 2.10.1988. (h)

“A bridge over Suez,” Uri Milshtein, Haaretz, 27.10.1978. (h)

“The bridgehead was captured,” Ilan Kfir, Yedioth Ahronoth, 16.11.1973. (h)

Oren Elhanan, Lieutenant Colonel (res.), “History of the Yom Kippur War”—The crossing; IDF History Department, December 2004, pp. 205–232. (h)

Kfir Ilan, “My glorious brothers of the Canal”; Chapter 14: “October 15–16: Acapulco”; Chapter 15: “October 16: Africa”; Chapter 21: “October 17: Heroes of the bridges,” Yedioth Ahronoth Publishers, Tel-Aviv, 2003, pp. 205–213, 214–222, 270–283. (h)

Bergman Ronen, Melzer Gil, “The Yom Kippur War real time”; Chapter 3: “The Crossing.” Yedioth Ahronoth Publishers, Tel-Aviv, 2003, pp. 221–288. (h)

Dan Uri, “Bridgehead,” Chapter 23: “The paratroopers are crossing,” A.L. Special Edition, Tel-Aviv, April 1975, pp. 157–169. (h)

Herzog, Chaim. “The War of Atonement,” Greenhill Books, London, 1988.

Interview of Moshe (Bogi) Yaalon.

16: “Commander Killed . . . Deputy Commander Killed . . . Second Deputy Commander . . .” 1973

Segal Maozia, “Testimonies from the sandy battlefield: the paratroopers' combat in the Chinese Farm,” Modan publishers. Ben-Shemen, 2002, pp. 80–230. (h)

Ezov Amiram, “Crossing—60 hours in October 1973,” Dvir Publishers, Or Yehuda. 2011, pp. 55–220. (h)

“Bloodshed in the Chinese farm,” Ilan Kfir, Yedioth Ahronot,24.4.1974. (h)

“The hell was here,” Yael Gvirtz, Yedioth Ahronot, 17.6.1994. (h)

“Slowly, slowly, they tell about the night when they were sent to the slaughter,” Batia Gur, Haaretz, 17.9.1999. (h)

“Itzik, here is Ehud, I'm coming to help,” Shiri Lev-Ari, Hair, 29.1.1999. (h)

“The Deputy company commander mumbled: It's over, the battalion is gone . . . 890 is gone . . . everybody was killed,” Yael Gvirtz, Yedioth Ahronoth, 17.9.1991. (h)

“Regiment 890 at the Chinese farm,” Eitan Haber, Yedioth Ahronoth, October 1985.

“The battle of the Chinese farm, a wound that won't heal,” Nava Zuriel, Maariv, 4.2.2006. (h)

“The Armor fighters demand that their part in the Chinese farm battle be recognized,” Dana Weiller, Maariv, 7.10.2008. (h)

“History, memory and rating,” Zeev Drori, Maariv, 28.4.2004. (h)

“Overlooked but not forgotten,” Abraham Rabinovitch, Jerusalem post, 3.10.2007.

Interview of Itzhak Mordechai.

17: “I See the Lake of Tiberias!” 1973

“Back to the Valley of Tears (Emek Habacha),” Yaron London, Yedioth Ahronoth, 6.10.1992. (h)

“The battle in the Valley of Tears,” Renen Shor, Bamahane, 19.12.1973. (h)

“Why was Barak's brigade abandoned?” Emanuel Rozen, Maariv, 24.9.1993. (h)

“Syrian Documents captured: The Golan Heights have to be taken within 24 hours,” Davar 19.4.1974. (h)

“The fighting of Division Mussa,” Amir Oren, Bamahane, 30.1.1974. (h)

“The battle of the Golan,” General (res.) Chaim Herzog, Yedioth Ahronoth, 30.9.1974. (h)

“Destroy Damascus,” Igal Sarna, Yedioth Ahronoth, 17.9.1991. (h)

“Look at the Syrians, how brave they are,” Avigdor Kahalani, Yedioth Ahronoth, 24.9.1993.

“Bravery or death,” David Shalit, Haaretz, 7.8.1993. (h)

Milshtein Uri, “The Yom Kippur War”; the Paratrooper Corps; The blood-line; The breaking of the war,” Yaron Golan Publishers, Tel-Aviv, June 1992, pp.162–222. (h)

Interview of Avigdor Kahalani

18: The Eyes of the Nation, 1973

“That's how the Hermon fort fell,” Eitan Haber, Yedioth Ahronoth, 28.12.1973. (h)

“Here lie our corpses,” Igal Sarna, Hadashot, 24.9.1985. (h)

“We captured. We the cannibals,” NRG Internet site, 24.9.2004. (h)

“The monster on the mountain,” Haolam Haze, 14.11.1973. (h)

“It was very important for them not to walk the way of the paratroopers,” Gadi Blum, Hair, 13.9.1991. (h)

“File Operation Dessert is published—that's how the Hermon was taken,” Ahikam Moshe David, Maariv, 12.5.2012.

Lieutenant Colonel (res.) Oren Elhanan, op. cit. pp. 276–279. (h)

Asher Dani, ed., “The northern command in the Yom Kippur war, Operation Dessert”; Re-capturing the Hermon, The Syrians on the fences, Maarakhot Publishers, 2008, pp. 261–289. (h)

Shemesh Elyashiv, “Slow and wise with quick success (Paratrooper brigade 317 in the battle for capturing the Syrian Hermon, October 21–22, 1973)”; The hell with you, move forward! (On speed in the battlefield), Modan publishers, Maarakhot, 2011, pp.48–67. (h)

Becker Avihai, “Indians on hill no.16, a company at the Hermon battle,” Ministry of Defense publishers, Jerusalem 2003.

Interview of David Zarfati, Golami brigade fighter.

19: “Opera” in Baghdad and “Arizona” in Syria, 1981 and 2007

“Opera,” -1981

“IAF Commander, at the time of the nuclear-reactor bombing, David Ivry,” from an interview published in the IAF magazine, Aharon Lapidot, Journal 118, 1.12.1997. (h)

Nakdimon Shlomo, “Tamuz in Flames,” Yedioth Ahronoth Edition, 1986. (h)

“We made a bet which one of us will stay in Baghdad's central square,” Alex Fishman, Amit Meidan, Yedioth Ahronoth, 1.8.1997. (h)

“Comparison: Entebbe, Iraq, Tunis,” Hadashot, 3.10.1985.

“The pilot who led the attack on the nuclear reactor, the pilot who planned the operation,” Yedioth Ahronoth reporters, 16.6.1981. (h)

“A special interview with an unnamed Colonel—the planner,” Yaakov Erez, Maariv 12.6.1981. (h)

“Operation Opera, Lieutenant General Aviem Sella, one of the planners,” Ron Ben Ishai, Yedioth Ahronoth, 28.4.1995. (h)

“Opera,” Shlomo Nakdimon, Bamahane, 1.6.2001. (h)

“Israeli aircraft attacked the Iraqi nuclear reactor from Iranian territory—claims a British writer,” Amos Ben-Vered, Haaretz, 9.8.1991. (h)

“The Government communique,” Maariv, 9.6.1981. (h)

Interview of Zeev Raz.

“Arizona,” 2007

“Attacking the nuclear reactor in Syria—step by step,” Gordon Thomas, Epoch times, 21.11.2008. (h)

“The Story of ‘Operation Orchard'—How Israel destroyed Syria's Al Kibar nuclear reactor,” Erich Follath and Holger Stark, Der Spiegel, February 11, 2009.

“Israel thwarted Syria's plan to attack,” infolive.tv, September 17, 2007.

“Sayeret Matkal collected nuclear material in Syria,” Ynet, 23.9.2007. (h)

“Israel forwarded intelligence to the USA prior to the attack,” Ynet, 21.9.2009 (h)

“Due to secrecy Syria did not protect the site which was bombed,” Arie Egozi, Orly Azulai, Yedioth Ahronoth, 4.11.2007. (h)

“Report: a Commando unit landed in Syria a month before the bombing of the nuclear reactor,” Yossi Melman, Haaretz, 19.3.2009. (h)

“The Iranian connection,” Alex Fishman, Yedioth Ahronoth, 16.9.2007. (h)

“Sayeret Matkal collected nuclear samples in Syria” Jerry Louis, as quoted by Yossi Yehoshua and Idan Avni, Yedioth Ahronoth, 23.9.2007. (h)

“The night of the bomb,” Michael Bar-Zohar and Nissim Mishal, Yedioth Ahronoth, 13.8.2010. (h)

20: “Did They Have Machins Guns?” 1982

“I knew that we had to conquer the Beaufort,” Mazal Mualem, Bamahane, 8.6.1988. (h)

“Conquest of the Beaufort,” Brigadier General (res.) Avigdor Kahalani, Maarakhot 413, July 2007. (h)

“Revenge Commander calling,” Igal Sarna, Yedioth Ahronoth, 6.1.1987.(h)

“Hadad raised his flag over the Beaufort and said: We are here with the help of God and the IDF,” Joseph Walter and Shaya Segal, Maariv, 9.6.1982. (h)

“Battle over the Beaufort restarted,” Moshe Zonder, Tel-Aviv magazine, 2.7.1993. (h)

“Cannon crews facing the fortress,” Igal lev, Maariv, 11.6.1982. (h)

“Battle of the Beaufort—the officers were the first to attack,” Shira Ben-Zion, Bamahane, 14.7.1982. (h)

“I started advancing and got scared. Darkness, night, moving shadows,” Tal Zagraba, Bamahane, 11.1.2008. (h)

“The battle for the Beaufort, Lebanon war, Arab documents and sources,” Collecting materials, editing and analysis: Reuven Avi-Ran, Maarakhot, Tel-Aviv, 1987, pp. 20–25. (h)

Tamir Moshe (Chico), “A war with no medals,” Maarakhot, Ministry of Defense publishers, 2006, p. 28. (h)

Interview of Gabi Ashkenazi.

21: “It Was a Great Concert with Many Instruments,” 1982

Rosenthal Rubik, “Lebanon: the other war,” Sifriat Poalim, Hakibutz Haartzi, Hashomer Hatzair, 1983, pp. 67–75. (h)

Cohen Eliezer (Cheeta) and Lavi Zvi, op cit. pp. 604–620.

Ben David Ofer Colonel (res.), “The Lebanon campaign,” Tel-Aviv, pp. 68–72. (h)

Reuven Avi-Ran, op. cit. pp. 91–93.

“Six Days in June,” Lior Shlain and Noam Ofir, IAF Magazine, no.145, 1.6.2002. (h)

“David Ivry, the ninth Commander (October 1977–December 1982),” Aharon Lapidot, IAF Magazine, no. 118, 1.12.1997. (h)

“How we destroyed the disposition of land to air rockets in the first Lebanon war—1982,”Major General (res.) David Ivry, Fisher strategic research institute, air and space, 2007. (h)

Interview of Aviem Sella.

22: “Abu Jihad Sent Us,” 1988

Zonder Moshe, “Sayeret Matkal, the assassination of Abu Jihad,” Keter Publishers, Jerusalem, 2000, pp. 238–248. (h)

“Liquidation of Abu Jihad: a professional work in less than 5 minutes,” Uzi Mahanaimi, Dani Sade, Edwin Eitan reporting from Paris; Yohanan Lahav reporting from London, Yedioth Ahronoth, 17.4.1988. (h)