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...year-old was chosen to lead the Sayeret Matkal, and began a string of daredevil heroics. The next year, he and Netanyahu were among the special forces who donned maintenance workers' white overalls to storm a Sabena airplane hijacked en route to Tel Aviv airport. Long fascinated by mechanical devices, Barak skillfully picked a lock to open the airplane door. In 1973 he dressed as a woman to infiltrate Beirut with a unit that assassinated three leaders of the Palestine Liberation Organization. He was a commander of Israel's famous 1976 operation to rescue hostages at Uganda's Entebbe airport...
...does not think Hamas will target Arafat, but he does expect assassinations of lesser officials. Says a P.A. Cabinet member: "If you want to get rid of Arafat or any other P.A. official, all you need is a crazy guy like those who blow themselves up in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem, and unfortunately there are a lot of them around...
...crowd of diplomats gathered in the Wye Plantation's conference room two weeks ago for the ritual photo op that launched the latest Middle East peace talks, two men were missing: CIA Director George Tenet and the agency's Tel Aviv station chief were hiding out upstairs, waiting for the reporters and photographers to clear out so they could slip back into the meeting unnoticed...
Never before has the agency been so involved or so visible in a negotiating assignment. The process began in 1996 when Israeli-Palestinian talks broke down and the CIA station chief in Tel Aviv began playing host at weekly meetings between officials from both sides to share intelligence on terrorists. Tenet has since flown four times to Israel and the Palestinian territories, and the CIA has set up a satellite office in the Gaza Strip, along with "operations rooms" in Jericho, Hebron, Ramallah and Nablus, to help in communications with Arafat's agents...
Benjamin Netanyahu and Ariel Sharon are anything but friends. Enemies is more like it. So plainly there was something more on the menu than stir-fried noodles when the two dined together recently with their wives at a seaside Chinese restaurant in Tel Aviv. Last week the Prime Minister confirmed the rumors of an impending alliance of convenience when he announced that Sharon, the 70-year-old warhorse, is his new Foreign Minister...