Yeshayahu Gavish is the last in a history-defining generation of Israeli leaders involved in the pivotal Six Day War.
Yeshayahu “Shaike” Gavish, who has died aged 99, was the last surviving senior Israeli commander from the Six Day War in 1967, in which Israel occupied vast lands incorporating parts of Egypt, Syria and Jordan; he served as OC Southern Command in charge of the Israeli forces facing Egypt.
As for Dayan’s second limitation, he ordered Gavish: “You must not take the Gaza Strip. Let the Palestinians stay there. I don’t want anything to do with them. We will be outside; they’ll be cut off inside. Let them eat up each other.” Then, overlooking Dayan’s clear orders not to get too close to the Suez Canal, Gavish’s forces reached the canal and occupied it.
Yeshayahu Gavish was born on August 25, 1925, in Tel Aviv, then in British Mandatory Palestine, and studied at the local School for Workers’ Children before moving to a high school at Kibbutz Givat HaShlosha. They put the explosives at the foundations of the bridge and retreated. “When we were half a kilometre from the bridge, we detonated the explosives, and we could hear the explosion,” Gavish recalled. “It was precisely 23:00, which was the agreed time, when the rest of the bridges connecting Palestine to Jordan, Syria and Lebanon also exploded.”
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