Army Replacements Announied in Israe

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they were able. to stage deep
air strikes into Israel, partic-
ularly against Israel's major
military airfields in - order to
neutralize Israel's air force;
and a related belief that
Syria would not go to war
without Egypt.
The report stated: "We are
convinced beyond doubt that
the chief of staff should have
requested a -callup of re-
serves in the week preceding
the outbreak of hostilities to
maintain a realistic balance
between enemy forces and Is-
raeli forces along the borders.
At the very least, the chief of
staff should have ordered a
call up on the morning of
Oct. 5 even if enemy inten-
tions were not entirely clear."
The committee found that
despite clear warnings of im-
pending war, no steps were
taken to deploy the armoured
force in the vicinity of the
Suez Canal, no clear instruc-
tions were given to the com-
mander of the southern front
to meet an attack and clear
instructions were also lack-
ing on the northern front.
* * *

Elazar's Defense

ALBANY (JTA)
All of
the 1,100 Jewish patients in
the 45 New York state schools
for the mentally retarded
and the hospitals for the
mentally ill will have kosher-
for-Passover meals for the
entire eight-day holiday pe-
riod for the first time, ac-
cording to the state depart-
ment of mental hygiene.

The meals are packed in
sealed containers with the
entire food program super-
vised by Jewish chaplains. A
department spokesma' did
Members of the Israel investigating commision are, from left: Former Chief of Staff Gen. Haim Loskov, Supreme
that 7,000 dinners hac,. :err
Court Justice Moshe Landau, Chief Supreme Court Justice Shimon Agranat, State Comptroller Dr. Yitzhak Nebenzahl
and Israel's second chief of staff, Prof. Yigael Yadin.
ordered for the seder meals
so that non-Jewish patients
In his letter, Elazar said: ,mittee did not treat the two command upon publication of staff, Gen. Israel Tal; Gen. and faculty personnel who
"The committee found that of us by the same yardstick." the Agranat report.
Mordehai Gur, former mili- wish to participate in the
according to information in
Elazar's resignation ended
In another change, Maj. tary attache in Washington; seders will be able to do so.
his hands, the chief of staff a distinguished military ca- Gen. Shim() Gazit, former and Res. Gen. Yeshayahu
should have called for a par- reer that began in the early coordinator of the adminis- Gavish, who left the army to
tial mobilization of reserve 1940s when the Yugoslav-born tered
territories, was appoint- become an executive of Koor
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By YIT7J1AK SHARGIL
TEL AVIV (JTA) — Gen.
David Elazar strongly de-
fended his actions as chief of
staff on the eve of the Yom
Kippur War.
"An injustice has been done
to me. I do not accept some
of the main findings of the
committee against me," Ela-
zar declared in his letter of
resignation.
He charged that the com-
mittee had gone astray by
confusing the definition of
authority of the minister of
defense and the chief of staff.
The defense minister, he
said, had full operative au-
thority, and all plans and
decisions were brought to
him prior to the war. It was
only during the actual com-
bat that the responsibility
was entirely in the hands of
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the chief of staff, he said.
sible
partie s concerned.
Elazar received a telegram
Among
these there was a re-
of support from Yitzhak Ben-
Aharon, one of the Labor liance on warnings by our in-
telligence. This time there
was no such warning and the
committee has not established
that the lack of such warning
was my fault."
Elazar continued: "I deny
the findings of the committee
that a proper defense plan in
detail was not prepared in
case regular forces would
have to fight alone to stop
the enemy simultaneously on
the northern and Egyptian,
fronts. The truth is that there
was such a plan for both
fronts. The plan was well
known and rehearsed even by
lower command levels."

YITZHAK HOFI

Party's most outspoken dissi-
dents who agreed that the
Agranat committee had been
misled into directing its crit-
icism against the army and
not against those with parlia-
mentary responsibility for
the mishaps.

6--Friday, April 5, 1974

Passover Meals
for Mental Patients

Elazar concluded. "It is
beyond my understanding
why the committee is of the
opinion that I should have
reached the conclusion that
the reserve forces should
have been mobilized on Oct.
5 while the defense minister
could not come to the same
conclusion when we both had
the same information and
when no one in the general
headquarters thought or sug-
gested the callup of the re-
serves. There is no other way
but to assume that the com-

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