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Friday, Dm. IS, 1967
THI SOUTHER#* ISRAELITEMT
Pag* Fiva
New Israeli Chief of Staff
Tops Distinguished Career
then No the United States—and
an M. A. at Columbia in admin
istration and economics.
On has return, Bar-Lev was ap
pointed Chief of Operation* left for another period in France.
(Chief of the General Staff Brigadier General Bar-Lev is
Branch), and- continued in this married and the father of a son
capacity until May 1966 when he and a daughter.
The situation was tense. Very
tense. The Egyptians had called!
for a “Holy War” and the com
plete extinction of Israel. This
was during the second half of
May 1967. During these tense
days, the Chief of Staff of the
Israel Defense Forces, received a
secret letter marked “personal,”
which had been written toy Brig
adier General Haim Bar-lev
from France where he had been
sent in May 1966 for further
studies. In the le)tter, Brig. Gen.
Bar-Lev requested of the Chief
of Staff Yitzchack Rabin not to
leave him out of the picture and
not to forget about him.
When the situation ail around
Israel’s borders worsened end the
Egyptians in their thousands en
tered Sinai, a cable was sent to
Bar-Lev ordering his immediate
return home to Israel. Bar-Lev
dropped everything he was doing
and returned immediately. On his
return he Was appointed Deputy
Chief of Staff.
Now only half a year after the
Six Day War the official Gov
ernment communique read: “Muf
(Brig. General) Haim Bar-Lev
was appointed Chief of Staff, to
replace Major General Yitzchack
Rabin, as of January 1, 1968.”
At the age of 43, Haim Bar-
Lev will become one of the “old
est” Chiefs of Staff. Solidly built,
of medium height with greying
temples, he will become the Sth
Chief of Staff. He is known for
his restrained and carefully
weighed pronouncements. He
wanted to be a farmer but Major
Gen. Rabin insisted on taking
him with him into the battalion
commander training sohool which
had been set up immediately aft
er the War of Liberation. When
Rabin took up a different assign
ment, Bar-Lev succeeded him for
the first of several times.
Born in 1924, in Austria and
educated in Yugoslavia, Bar-Lev
came to Israel as a 15-year old
just before the outbreak of the
Second World War and continu
ed his schooling in Israel. His
military career began in 1942
when he joined the “Palmach.”
He was given his first command
in 1944 at Beth Ha’arava, a Kib
butz outpost on the northern
shore of the Dead Sea. The fol
lowing two years saw him in
command of a Palmach Com
pany in the Jezreel Valley. In
1946 he commanded th^ unit
Nazi War Criminals
Sought in U. S.
NEW YORK (JTA)—The man
credited with locating AdoLf Eich-
mann said in a radio broadcast
here that there may be as many
as 20,000 Nazi war criminals
living in the United States and
that top U. S. Justice Depar-
ment officials have pledged their
cooperation in tracking them
down.
Toviah Friedman, head of the
Documentation Center in Israel,
disclosed on a program of WEVD
that it cost the Israel Govern
ment $2 million to locate the arch
war criminal Eichmann, and that
Israel has spent $5,000 a year
since the end of World War II
to locate Karl Wolff, a former
SS leader, who is now facing trial
m Munich.
British to Send
Students to Israel
LONDON (JTA) — A “prac
tical project” for British uni
versity graduates and students
to spend at least a year in Israel
was announced here by Gordon
Hausmann, chairman of the In
ter-university Jewish Federation
of Great Britain and Ireland.
Under the plan, he said, the stu
dents will spend at least a year
at the Institute for Hebrew and
Jewish Studies at Arad, one of
the new developing towns in
Israel’s Negev area.
HOW HE TOOK
HIS NEW HONORS
On the evening of Bar-Lev’s
nomination as Israeli Chief of
Staff, literally dozens of well-
wishers sent cables from all over
the world. The phone in his office
didn't stop ringing all day.
Those who were closer to him,
his friends and his relatives tried
to reach him at home, in the
evening but there was no answer
to the phone. Everyone thought
that he had gone out to cele
brate. But no! He had taken his
wife and children and quietly sat
in a small suburban cinema.
which blew up the Allenby
Bridge in an action against the
British.
A year later Bar-Lev was put
in command of the 8th battalion
of the Negev Brigade with the
task of safeguarding the water
pipelines linking the 11 Jewish
settlements dispersed throughout
the northern Negev. It was this
battalion, the southernmost unit,
which was the first to contact the
Egyptian in its northward thrust
which began cn May 15, 1943.
Half a year later this unit routed
the Egyptians and pursued them
over the border, taking the town
of Abu Agheila and continuing
hot on their heels right up to the
approaches of El Arish.
After a sltint at the battalion
commanders’ school, he was ap
pointed O. C. Northern Command
in 1952. A year later he graduated
a flying course which gave him a
pilot’s license for light aircraft.
The years 1954-55 saw him in
command of the Givaiti Brigade
— Israel’s toughest foojbsoidiers.
He resumed his studies in 1956
at a senior officers’ course held
in Great Britain but was recall
ed after only a very short time
in order to serve as commander
of an armoured brigade in the
1956 Sinai Campaign.
In 1957 he was given the com
mand of the Armoured Corps and
remained Its O. C. until 1961
when he again set out for a study
tour that took him to Europe and
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