The Lion's Gate: On the Front Lines of the Six Day War

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by Steven Pressfield


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  ILLUSTRATION CREDITS

  1 Courtesy of Lou Lenart

  2 Courtesy of Associated Press

  3 Courtesy of Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images

  4 Courtesy of Miriam Romm

  5 Gan-Shmuel archive via the PikiWiki—Israel Free Image Collection Project

  6 Courtesy of Lou Lenart

  7 Courtesy of Getty Images

  8 Courtesy of Cheetah Cohen

  9 Photo by Denis Cameron

  10 © Bettmann/CORBIS

  11 Courtesy of AFP/Getty Images

  12 Courtesy of Menahem Shmul

  13 Courtesy of Giora Romm

  14 Courtesy of Jacob Agassi and Menahem Shmul

  15 Courtesy of Ran Ronen

  16 Photo by Yosi Ben-Hanan

  17 Courtesy of IDF & Defense Establishment Archives, photo by Alex Agor

  18 Courtesy of Eli Rikovitz

  19 © Hulton-Deutsch Collection/CORBIS

  20 Photo by Yosi Ben-Hanan

  21 Eli Rikovitz

  22 Eli Rikovitz

  23 Eli Rikovitz

 
; 24 Photo by Yosi Ben-Hanan

  25 Courtesy of Eli Rikovitz

  26 Photo by Yosi Ben-Hanan

  27 Courtesy of Eli Rikovitz

  28 Photo by Yosi Ben-Hanan

  29 Photo by Yosi Ben-Hanan

  30 Courtesy of Cheetah Cohen

  31 Courtesy of Gamma-Keystone via Getty Images

  32 Collection of Yosi Ben-Hanan

  33 Courtesy of Moshe Milo

  34 Courtesy of Associated Press

  35 Photo by Bentzi Tal

  36 Courtesy of Associated Press

  37 Photo by Bentzi Tal

  38 Photo by Yerah Halperin

  39 Courtesy of Uzi Eilam

  40 Courtesy of IDF & Defense Establishment Archives, photo by Amos Zuker

  41 Courtesy of IDF & Defense Establishment Archives, photo by Amos Zuker

  42 Courtesy of IDF & Defense Establishment Archives

  43 Photo by Benny Ron, courtesy of Uzi Eilam

  44 Photo by Yosi Ben-Hanan

  45 Courtesy of Eli Rikovitz

  46 Courtesy of Eli Rikovitz

  47 Courtesy of Associated Press

  48 © Time Inc., image by Denis Cameron

  49 Courtesy of Eli Rikovitz

  50 Courtesy of IDF & Defense Establishment Archives

  51 Photo by Micha Bar-Am, courtesy of Magnum Photos

  52 Courtesy of Amir Cohen

  53 Photo by Micha Bar-Am, courtesy of Magnum Photos

  INDEX

  The page numbers in this index refer to the printed version of this book. The link provided will take you to the beginning of that print page. You may need to scroll forward from that location to find the corresponding reference on your e-reader.

  Page numbers in italics refer to illustrations.

  Abasan el-Kabir, 177, 178, 181, 182, 190

  Abdullah, king of Jordan, 40, 319

  Abolnik, Yoram, 214, 218, 239, 403

  Abraham, 2, 252, 264, 337, 381

  Abu Agheila, 62, 86, 209, 228

  Abu Ghosh, 258

  Abu Suweir, 148, 153–56

  Abu Tor, house at, 1–2, 394–96

  Acre prison, 389

  Adam, Kuti, 230, 234

  “After These Things” (Kovner), 397

  Afula, hospital at, 352

  Agassi, Jacob, 160, 162, 353, 393

  Ajlun, Mount, 143

  Akiva, Rabbi, 259

  Aknin, Yaakov, 230, 232

  Al-Aqsa Mosque, 253, 268, 294, 296, 319, 327, 386

  Algeria, 62, 128, 333

  Alkayam, Sa’adia “Supapo,” 70–71, 94

  Allon, Yigal, 49, 127

  Alon, Modi, 46–48

  Alsop, Joseph, 128

  Alterman, Natan, 99, 126

  Amer, Abdel Hakim, 5, 209

  American Colony, 267, 269, 276

  Amir, Gabi, 212, 213

  Amit, Meir, 10

  Amitai, Boaz, 181–82, 190, 200–201, 238–40, 369, 371

  Amitai, Eliezer, 239

  Amman, 127, 160–62, 274, 294

  Ammunition Hill, 266, 267, 277, 290, 291, 306

  Angel, Ilan, 325

  antiaircraft defense, 147–48, 158–59

  Aqaba, Gulf of, 24

  Arab gangs and saboteur bands, 77–78

  Arab League, 5, 67

  Arab League Summit (1964), 6

  Arab Legion, 1–2, 28, 40–41, 46, 50, 55, 128, 153, 209, 253, 263, 266, 270, 280, 283, 285, 288–90, 293, 295, 297, 298, 301, 311, 316, 318–19, 321, 351

  Arab Revolt, 77

  Arafat, Yasir, 383

  Arif, Abdul Rahman, 128

  Ark of the Covenant, 252

  Armageddon, 8

  Armée de l’Air, 109

  Armoni, Mrs., 120

  Armoni, Yizhar, 119–21

  Arnan, Avram, 394–95

  artillery fire, 193–96, 218–19, 229, 232–35, 238–39, 240, 252, 256, 258, 266, 269, 275–76, 278, 285, 286, 298, 311, 321

  Arusi, Shimon, 321, 325

  Ashkelon, 203, 224, 249

  Ashkenazi, Giora, 311

  Augusta Victoria Hospital, 299–300

  Augusta Victoria Ridge, 267, 269, 270, 277, 289, 295, 296, 298–302, 306–11, 307, 316

  Auntie Leah’s, 112

  Austro-Hungarian Empire, 204

  Avidan, Shimon, 47

  Aviram, Menachem “Men,” 120

  Ayalon, Amos, 21, 182, 186, 192–96, 237, 238, 338, 339, 364, 404

  Ayalon Valley and Plain, 50, 205

  Bagnold, Ralph, 77

  bakara (control), 152

  balagan (chaos), 63, 185, 226

  bangalore torpedoes, 257–58, 275–78, 285, 302, 308, 311

  Barak, Ehud, 1, 87, 395–96

  Bardawill Lagoon, 145, 353

  Barkai, Zeev, 4–8, 245–50, 269–70, 274, 277, 282–84, 286–87, 302, 306–7, 308, 327

  Bar-Kochva, Colonel, 356–58

  Bar-Kochva, Simon, 378

  Barnoach, Itzik, 35

  Bar-On, Mordechai “Morele,” 82, 382

  Bar-Zohar, Michael, 364–67

  Batei Pagi, 85

  Bat Galim, 32, 34

  Battalion 79, 184

  “battle picture,” 167

  “battle range,” 342

  BBC, 128

  beards, 115–16

  Beaufighter, 56–58

  Bedouin, 78, 293, 381, 382–83

  Be’eri, Kibbutz, 393

  Beersheba, 12, 29, 35, 63, 76, 129, 182, 240, 313, 366

  Begin, Menachem, 49, 75–76, 126–27, 129, 264, 265, 297, 310, 365, 389

  Beilis, Shmuel, 183, 404

  Beit HaKerem, 271, 326

  Beit Hashita, Kibbutz, 256, 258, 269, 288

  Ben-Gal, Yannush, 115

  Ben-Gurion, David, 64–65, 68, 92, 124, 125, 126, 295, 364–66, 382, 392

  appreciation of Arab stance by, 74

  eclipse of, 364–66

  and M. Dayan, 54, 69, 74, 75–76, 100, 125, 253, 361, 366, 374

  memoirs of, 366

  misjudgment of, 364, 366

  regard for, 49, 76, 366

  Ben-Gurion International airport, 9

  Ben-Gurion: The Armed Prophet (Bar-Zohar), 364

  Ben-Hamidar, Nachshon, 282

  Ben-Hanan, Yosi, 118, 119–21, 175–76, 179–82, 184–85, 189, 212–13, 219–20, 241, 364, 365, 391

  Beni Suef, 135, 148, 151

  Ben Yaakov, Aryeh, 322, 325

  Ben-Yehuda, Eliezer, 85

  Berterer, Rafi, 220–21

  Bethlehem, 263, 349, 351, 374, 379

  Bible, 27, 78, 125, 129

  Israel of, 127, 264, 381

  military campaigns in, 99, 208, 230, 316, 348, 378

  see also specific figures

  biblical sites, 2, 8, 50, 53, 60, 63, 205–6, 252–53, 264, 310, 337, 381–90

  see also specific sites

  Bikel, Gideon, 278, 282–83, 288

  Bir Gafgafa, 139, 151, 209, 241, 331, 332, 340–45, 345, 346, 368, 370

  Bir Laffan, 240, 331

  Bir Thamada, 331, 341–42, 346

  Black Arrow, Operation (Gaza Raid), 68–74, 72, 268

  Blake, William, 259

  “blind map,” 21

  blitzkrieg, 177, 212, 242

  “Blokada,” 341, 342, 343

  Bloody Riots, 77

  bombing runs, 16, 25, 56–57

  in Moked strategy for total war, 104–9, 144–48, 158, 163–65

  timetable for, 108, 144–45

  bombs, 28, 104–5, 135, 142, 146, 166, 167

  border raids:

  Arab, 23, 26, 40, 50, 64,
68, 125

  Israeli, 65–66

  Bourguiba, Habib, 128

  “boxes,” in Egypt’s military doctrine, 228

  breakthrough strategy, 179, 185, 190, 331

  in Jerusalem, 266–67, 273–78, 279, 285, 290

  Brezhnev, Leonid, 334

  British Army:

  Jewish Brigade in, 54, 204

  M. Dayan in, 78

  brutality, 58–59

  Burgata, 35

  Burma, 79

  burn victims, 199, 221–23, 238, 240, 242, 344, 369

  Butamiya, 355

  Cahaner, Shimon “Katcha,” 49–52, 62, 70, 94, 98, 225, 268, 317

  in “the Unit,” 64–67

  Cairo, 145–47, 262

  Cairo International Airport, 157, 163

  Cairo West airfield, 112, 148, 157, 158–59, 164, 249

  camaraderie, 20, 50, 62, 65, 112, 196–97, 284, 290

  Cameron, David, 178, 193, 214

  Cameron, Denis, 364, 365

  campaign of roads, 228, 331–34

  cannons, 22, 28, 135, 154, 162, 177

  Capernaum, 348

  Carmeli, Benzi, 186

  Carmeli, Moshe, 232, 355

  casualties, Arab:

  in Black Arrow, 71

  in Sinai Campaign, 95

  in Six Day War, 200, 234, 241, 289, 343, 346

  casualties, Israeli, 207–11, 314, 335, 345, 396

  in Black Arrow, 70–71

  in border raids, 68

  among friends and family, 107, 168, 184, 191, 199, 200, 203, 217, 238–40, 284, 340, 343, 368–72

  in IAF, 315

  informing families of, 371–72

  at Ishdud, 58

  in Jerusalem, 279, 282, 286, 288, 290–91, 298–99, 301, 311

  of paratroopers, 203, 279, 282, 290–91

  in 7th Armored Brigade, 184, 197, 199, 200–201, 208–9, 217–18, 222, 238–40, 242, 368–72, 403–4

  in Sinai Campaign, 94–95

  in War of Independence, 55, 119, 351

  see also specific individuals

  Catholics, 44–45

  cease-fire:

  consideration of, 209, 249, 310, 333, 338–39, 350, 354

  externally imposed, 333–34

  imposition of, 356, 357–58, 379

  Centurion tanks, 22, 127, 186, 198–99, 201–2, 229, 235, 342

  Cěské Budějovice, 46

  Chain Gate, 323

  Chaker, Sherif Zeid, 209

  Challe, Maurice, 82–83

  chaver mayvee chaver (friend brings a friend), 21, 65, 70

  chicken fricassee, 304–5

 

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