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...Israelis were content to let the Egyptians sit there while they concentrated their effort more than 300 miles away at the far end of Israel on the rolling Golan plain above the Sea of Galilee. Here, along a 60-mile front, the Syrians had massed nearly 1,000 tanks. And here the Israelis, forced to fight a simultaneous two-front war, decided to make their first major counterattack...
...Israeli breakthrough on the Golan forced battlefield decisions on both sides. For the Syrians, the choice was between falling back to defend Damascus or standing fast on the El Quneitra-Damascus road in an effort to halt the Israelis. For the Israelis, the decision was how far they should try to move along the road to Damascus. By week's end at least one Israeli force had penetrated more than ten miles beyond the cease-fire line set in 1967; but other Israeli troops were still meeting stiff resistance at the cease-fire lines. The Syrians were standing...
...again in 1956. In 1967, it was his daring use of Israeli innovations in armored warfare, especially the use of tanks at night and in hilly fighting, that was decisive in rolling back Syrian ground forces. Leading the assault from a front-line halftrack, Elazar took the Golan Heights during the Six-Day War in a mere 15 hours, audaciously advancing straight into withering Syrian artillery fire. Terse and direct, Elazar is known by his Yugoslavian nickname, "Dado." He is also called "Bulldog," for, as one Israeli officer put it: "His bulldog fighting technique is to take a good...
...assess the war in the Golan Heights and the Sinai Peninsula, TIME correspondents joined Israeli troops on both fronts...
...From the Golan Heights, William Marmon reported...