Word: lev
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...nervously wondered whether the outburst would have an echo in their capital. And in Tel Aviv, Israeli authorities were ready to move their forces toward Amman if the situation deteriorated. Defense Minister Moshe Dayan warned that Israel "cannot remain indifferent to events in Jordan"; Chief of Staff Haim Bar-Lev stated bluntly that if Jordan's government could not control the guerrillas, Israel would...
...Israelis?on combat missions?no farther west. Thus, Israel's air force, its "flying artillery," ranged unopposed over Egyptian gun sites on the west bank last week. The Egyptian cannon had been booming away at the sand, concrete and steel fortresses on the east bank that form the Bar-Lev Line (see box, page 30). In one ten-day period, the Israeli air force is estimated to have dropped more bombs than did all combatants during the entire 1967 war. Israelis refer to it as the "war against the war of attrition...
Lieut. General Haim Bar-Lev, Israel's chief of staff, ordered the troops returning from Lebanon to parade with their prisoners and captured booty through the streets of Kiryat Shemona. Even so, it was not an unvarnished Israeli victory. Israeli troopers admitted later that the fedayeen had fought well; one guerrilla calmly fired 16 rockets at advancing tanks before he was finally killed. Fedayeen Leader Yasser Arafat, who directed some of the battle, promised that raids against Israel would continue. "The Israeli attacks," he said, "will only step up, not diminish our determination to strike at them...
AFTER Defense Minister Moshe Dayan, the most powerful man in Israel's military establishment is Lieut. General Haim Bar-Lev, 45. Chief of staff of the armed forces, Bar-Lev is an armor expert who has been called "Israel's General Patton." In an interview with TIME Correspondent Marlin Levin last week, Bar-Lev discussed Israel's strategy and the war with the Arabs. Excerpts...
Using their old trick of feinting here, then clouting there, the Israelis made considerable trouble last week. One day Bar-Lev and Defense Minister Moshe Dayan made a well-publicized visit to the Suez Canal front. The next day an Israeli armored force thundered off into Jordan in search of guerrillas who had attacked a vital chemical plant on the Dead Sea. Next day, while Israeli planes attacked ammunition dumps near Cairo, Dayan and Prime Minister Golda Meir were visiting the Jordan River valley (after the visit, Dayan fractured his ankle in a leap from a helicopter...