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...Arabs would be smart not to put us to the test," the normally mild-mannered Lieut. General Haim Bar-Lev, the retiring chief of staff, told a meeting of Israeli mayors. "We do not now need as many months as during the war of attrition to break them...
...been rumored for months, but only last week did the Israeli government itself leak the news: Lieut. General Haim Bar-Lev, 47, chief of staff for the past four years and the man whose name was given to the Bar-Lev Line of Israeli fortifications along the Suez Canal, will leave the army at the end of the year in line with an Israeli tradition of generals retiring before they are 50. Bar-Lev's successor: his oldest friend and current second-in-command as chief of operations, Major General David ("Dado") Elazar...
...Africans, 15% of them women, will go to Israel at the same time for specialized instruction in everything from microbiology and urban planning to kindergarten teaching and union leadership. In the past decade, 6,200 Africans have received such training. "We Israelis are experienced nation builders," says Shaul Ben-Haim, Ambassador to Malawi. "That experience is about all we have to give, but it is gladly given and accepted with appreciation...
YOUR hair is too familiar and too tempting a target," General Haim Bar-Lev gently suggested. So David Ben-Gurion, 84, obediently accepted a beret and pressed it down over his distinctive white mane. That done, Israel's first Premier and Defense Minister last week followed Chief of Staff Bar-Lev on a tour of Suez Canal fortifications...
...enough last week to relax for the first time in many months. Defense Minister Moshe Dayan, who said recently that the war may be entering its final phase, left his office, picked up a shovel and went off to follow his favorite pastime of archaeological digging. Chief of Staff Haim Bar-Lev joined 22,000 other fans at a soccer game in Tel Aviv, and Jack Benny appeared in a semiserious concert with the Israeli Philharmonic. At week's end the nation halted all activity for Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement. Just before the holiday, Bar-Lev spoke...