Word: shemona
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...required to face in order to defeat the enemy. Battles in the skies over Kutamiya and Salhiya are no holiday gifts. But better that the battle for our future be fought there than at the fences of Nahal Oz and with the blood of the children of Kiryat Shemona...
...About Kutamiya? Dayan did not have to explain whom he meant by Egypt's "foreign advisers." Every Israeli by now is able to translate such a phrase into Russian. Similarly, Dayan's countrymen know of Nahal Oz, a fortified settlement on the Gaza Strip border; and Kiryat Shemona, a city on the Lebanon border where eight residents have been killed in recent months by Russian-made rockets fired by Arab guerrillas...
...encouraging one, in a far broader theater. Even while gunfire blazed in Amman, other guerrillas raided Israel along the Jordanian border. Israeli troops patrolled inside Lebanon to contain guerrilla activity there, but the fedayeen nevertheless managed to loft Soviet-made Katyusha rockets into the frontier town of Kiryat Shemona. Syrian artillerymen firing Russian guns shelled a border defense settlement called Nahal Gishor, killing a girl soldier. Suez rocked with the sound and fury of the heaviest fighting...
Israel's Premier Golda Meir, a woman who wastes few words, came straight to the point. Attending the funeral of an 18-year-old boy killed by an Arab rocket in the frontier town of Kiryat Shemona, near Lebanon, she said: "Under no circumstances will we permit murderers to sit across the border and sow death in our midst. We desire quiet on the borders on one condition: that there be quiet on both sides of the borders." If it happens here, she warned in effect, it will happen there. Last week, 36 hours after her warning, Israel took...
Lieut. General Haim Bar-Lev, Israel's chief of staff, ordered the troops returning from Lebanon to parade with their prisoners and captured booty through the streets of Kiryat Shemona. Even so, it was not an unvarnished Israeli victory. Israeli troopers admitted later that the fedayeen had fought well; one guerrilla calmly fired 16 rockets at advancing tanks before he was finally killed. Fedayeen Leader Yasser Arafat, who directed some of the battle, promised that raids against Israel would continue. "The Israeli attacks," he said, "will only step up, not diminish our determination to strike at them...