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Let me do the job!

In another excerpt from his new book, Gal Hirsch drops the reader into 1993, when he had to weigh the importance of a mission against prevarications from his commanders.

Gal Hirsch on patrol in Lebanon in 1982
Gal Hirsch on patrol in Lebanon in 1982
(photo credit: BAMACHANE)
ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
JULY 3, 2016 11:37
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