Word: lev
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that the Israelis had come breathtakingly close to a victory that would have matched their swift triumph in the Six-Day War. Despite the important advantages possessed this time by the refurbished Arab armies-the element of surprise, the early losses they inflicted, their easy penetration of the Bar-Lev Line along the east bank of the Suez Canal and Israeli bastions in the Golan Heights-the Israelis managed in scarcely more than two weeks to reverse the tide of battle and push the battlefronts into Syria and Egypt. At week's end the Israelis claimed that they...
Backed up by Soviet T-54 and T-55 tanks rumbling across the pontoon bridges, the Egyptians paused hardly at all, sweeping over Israel's vaunted Bar-Lev defense line anchored just beyond the east bank. They had obviously prepared well and arduously. "We trained for this mission for a long time," one wounded soldier told newsmen as he was carried back across the canal. "Each of us knew by heart what he was supposed...
...country this brilliant, aggressive and fiercely devoted soldier would stand out as a talented strategist. The mastermind behind Egypt's assault on the formidable Bar-Lev Line on the east side of the Suez Canal, Shazli, 52, has long awaited his chance to prove the Arabs' military prowess. Educated at the Egyptian military academy and trained in the Soviet Union, he has been an officer since the first Palestine war of 1948. After the 1967 Six-Day War, he commanded Egypt's "special forces" and later the elite commando unit that forayed across the Suez Canal into...
ISRAEL, LIEUT. GENERAL DAVID ELAZAR: Nobody in Israel has been more contemptuous of the Arabs' military capacity than this longtime protege of Israel's respected former Chief of Staff Haim Bar-Lev. Born in Yugoslavia, like Bar-Lev, Elazar, now 48, went to Israel in 1940, soon joined the Palmach, the strike force of the underground Zionist army, and fought in the 1948 war of independence. His military career advanced rapidly as he followed Bar-Lev from command to command until he succeeded him as Chief of Staff in 1971. Last April Elazar predicted...
...Aviv, Israeli leaders met in a heated Cabinet session to discuss reaction to the crisis. Defense Minister Dayan, Deputy Prime Minister Yigal Allon and Minister of Commerce Haim Bar-Lev won the support of Prime Minister Meir for a policy to hit back hard at the Arabs. Dayan argued that merely to repulse the Egyptian-Syrian invasion would be no victory, merely a stalemate. The Arabs had to be punished, he insisted, by Israeli counterpunches into their territory. The Cabinet approved. Few Western military observers had doubted that Israel had the force to do it. What left many of them...