The convoy is warned by Lebanese civilians and turns back, but Yoni and his men pursue them. When the Syrian convoy and their Lebanese escorts near, Yoni moves in. Yoni's force positions itself at nighttime near the border with Lebanon. He went to the field with us, taught us how to grab the men, from which side of the vehicle." Iddo: "There was a plan to kidnap Syrian officers in order to exchange them for Israeli pilots and navigators who were languishing for a long time in Syrian jails."Īharon Gabai (solider in Sayeret Matkal): "The main figure in all the preparations was Yoni. The Kidnapping from Lebanon - Operation "Argaz"ĭuring the summer of 1972, Yoni commands an operation of the Unit in Lebanon, in which his younger brother Iddo also takes part. Bleeding, he crawls back to the Israeli lines, and upon reaching them, collapses. Four hours before the cease-fire, Yoni attempts to aid a wounded comrade, and is shot in his elbow. Perhaps in a few days, when it's all over and we're together again, perhaps then we'll smile… Tonight, and maybe tomorrow or the day after tomorrow, we'll be shooting again, and again there'll be dead and wounded.Īfter participating in the pivotal battle of Um-Katef in the Sinai, Yoni and his battalion are moved north to fight the Syrians on the Golan Heights. We left the expanses of sand strewn with the bodies of the dead, filled with fire and smoke, and now we are once again in our own country. Only yesterday I was home for a few hours, only yesterday I embraced Tuti. But only yesterday I was laughing in his company. Was it really only yesterday? An eternity seems to have gone by since them. God knows we didn't want all this! To be at war - so real and yet so impossible to accept. I think that if I were in America now, I'd go crazy! But nothing has happened yet, and all is quiet." If something happens, I want to be here in Israel and not abroad. "I'm glad I hadn't left for college in the U.S. Alongside other Israeli civilians, Yoni is once again drafted into service and awaits the coming war. With Syria and Jordan encircling Israel, the Arab alliance declared its intent of destroying the Jewish State.
In May 1967, Egypt moves its army into the Sinai Desert.
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