Reeper

[befreier@mail.ru]

During the Israeli war of independence in 1948, he led one of the crack units, and after the war he was involved in intelligence and reconnaissance work and was in command of a controversial attack on a Jordanian village in 1953. During the 1956 Suez Crisis, Sharon captured the strategic Mitla Pass on the Sinai Peninsula, again garnering praise for his military ability and criticism for his headstrong leadership. After the crisis he studied military theory at Staff College in Camberley, England, and law at Tel Aviv University, graduating with a law degree in 1966. Sharon was made a major general in 1967, a few months before the Six-Day War of that year, in which he once again captured the Mitla Pass in a lightning-quick assault. Resigning from the Israeli army in July 1973, he was recalled for the Yom Kippur War of October 1973, in which he spearheaded the Israeli counterattack westward across the Suez Canal into Egypt.