Summary of Michael Bar-Zohar & Nissim Mishal's No Mission Is Impossible

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#1 The Old Man, David Ben-Gurion, wanted to attack Latrun, a fortress near Jerusalem, and break the siege of Jerusalem. But Yigael Yadin, the commander of the Seventh Brigade, wanted to stop the Egyptians first. They couldn’t agree on what to do, and the siege of Jerusalem continued.

#2 The Israeli forces had gained control of a strip of land between Hulda and the approaches to Jerusalem, west of Latrun. The front commander, General David Marcus, decided to try reaching Jerusalem from the plain by jeep.

#3 The Road of Valor was built to get supplies to Jerusalem, and it was completed on the night before the truce began, on June 11, 1948. The work, however, continued till July 14, when the UN observers visited the site and saw the Israeli trucks climbing all the way to Jerusalem.

#4 The trucks rolled on Burma Road, and Jerusalem was saved. The truce began a few hours later, and Jerusalem was saved.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: Jun 8, 2022
• ISBN: 9798822535114

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Contents

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Insights from Chapter 2

Insights from Chapter 3

Insights from Chapter 4

Insights from Chapter 5

Insights from Chapter 6

Insights from Chapter 7

Insights from Chapter 8

Insights from Chapter 1

#1

The Old Man, David Ben-Gurion, wanted to attack Latrun, a fortress near Jerusalem, and break the siege of Jerusalem. But Yigael Yadin, the commander of the Seventh Brigade, wanted to stop the Egyptians first. They couldn’t agree on what to do, and the siege of Jerusalem continued.

#2

The Israeli forces had gained control of a strip of land between Hulda and the approaches to Jerusalem, west of Latrun. The front commander, General David Marcus, decided to try reaching Jerusalem from the plain by jeep.

#3

The Road of Valor was built to get supplies to Jerusalem, and it was completed on the night before the truce began, on June 11, 1948. The work, however, continued till July 14, when the UN observers visited the site and saw the Israeli trucks climbing all the way to Jerusalem.

#4

The trucks rolled on Burma Road, and Jerusalem was saved. The truce began a few hours later, and Jerusalem was saved.

#5

During the siege of Jerusalem, I was the head of Intelligence’s Arabic division. With the outbreak of war, we could no longer use Arab agents, and we had to rely mainly on monitoring our enemies’ phone conversations.

#6

On February 28, 1955, Operation Black Arrow took place, when six IDF paratroopers crossed the border into the Egyptian-occupied Gaza Strip. They were joined by a column of paratroopers from the 890th Paratroop Battalion. The Israeli government made the decision to launch Black Arrow after several incidents on the Gaza border.

#7

Sharon was a born rebel, and he was twenty when he was badly wounded in the battle of Latrun. He lay bleeding in a wheat field, watching the Arabs who descended from the hills rush to murder the wounded Israelis with guns and knives.

#8

The 101 unit was a legend, even though it was a small unit that existed for only five months. They were responsible for a new spirit in the IDF, and Sharon was their commander. In February 1955, he led his paratroopers into Gaza.

#9

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