High above the Middle East during the 1973 Yom Kippur War, Israeli Air Force ace Giora Epstein pushed his Dassault Mirage III ...
“Solu, solu – build up, build up a highway! Clear a road! Remove all obstacles miderech ami – from the road of My people.’ The haftarah for Yom Kippur begins with these action-filled words of Isaiah.
As Israel’s head of military intelligence, he disregarded signs Egypt and Syria were about to attack in 1973. A commission blamed him for the lack of preparation. By Richard Sandomir and Johnatan ...