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Abraham Rabinovich
April 17, 2018, 10:13 am
How Israel became a naval startup nation with the famous boats of Cherbourg
When a young journalist had a startling hunch about Israel's military capacity, a lot of persistence persuaded the navy to go to great (secret) lengths to help him verify it
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Abraham Rabinovich
September 29, 2017, 10:23 am
Reversal of fortune: How the IDF turned the Yom Kippur War around
In this excerpt from his newly updated book, Abraham Rabinovich shows how a plea for help from Syria's Assad to Egypt's Sadat opened the way to Israel's crossing of the Suez Canal
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Abraham Rabinovich
May 24, 2017, 4:15 pm
An American in war-torn Jerusalem witnesses the battle for the Temple Mount
Fifty years ago, in the days leading up to the Six Day War, a plucky young journalist from Long Island flew to Israel on his first self-imposed war assignment. Here's what he saw
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Abraham Rabinovich
May 31, 2016, 5:52 pm
The Yom Kippur case for army intel
Bennett's demands for military briefings recall a catastrophic day when Israeli cabinet ministers sat in the dark
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Abraham Rabinovich
December 21, 2014, 10:58 pm
700 troops could have died retaking Gaza, ex-general says
Former senior IDF official says Hamas wanted to draw soldiers into central Gaza's maze of tunnels
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Abraham Rabinovich
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TOI staff
October 3, 2014, 8:40 pm
The police spy who found his ‘brothers’ in Mea Shearim
Veteran reporter Abraham Rabinovich's new ebook 'Jerusalem on Earth' deals with the evolution of the city in the decades after the 1967 Six Day War. This exclusive excerpt tells the story of a young cop, Hanan, who was sent undercover into the ultra-Orthodox Mea Shearim neighborhood in the early 1970s, posing as a non-Orthodox Jew seeking to 'return' to religion, in order to penetrate a militant fringe group. The way Hanan was treated, and the impact the experience had on him, offers lessons of lasting value amid our relentless intra-Jewish frictions
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Abraham Rabinovich
April 7, 2014, 1:37 pm
Wake up and smell the sleaze
The Holyland verdict is a call to activists and journalists to wage war on the country's rampant corruption
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Abraham Rabinovich
September 12, 2013, 12:28 pm
Three years too late, Golda Meir understood how war could have been avoided
The grandmother who led Israel at the time of the 1973 war made a series of instinctive, correct decisions as the battle broke out, writes historian Abraham Rabinovich, but she'd missed a chance in 1970 to prevent it
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Abraham Rabinovich
May 20, 2012, 7:13 am
‘Be ready to break into the Old City’
The fateful June 5, 1967, order to paratroop commander Mordechai Gur 'just slipped out,' author Abraham Rabinovich recalls in this excerpt from his landmark book, 'The Battle for Jerusalem'
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Abraham Rabinovich
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