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Once Upon The Golan

Israeli settlers recall the low-level fighting
when Syria held the Heights.

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right near the Golan who experienced
the previous arrangement firsthand.
It wasn't pleasant. But then Israel
Kibbutz Tel Katzir, Israel
and Syria weren't at peace, either.
ehiya Sokol remembers the
The period was July 20, 1949 to
night they forgot to turn
June 4, 1967 — from the day Syria
out the light in the bath-
signed a "cease-fire" agreement with
room of the children's
Israel at the end of the War of
sleeping quarters at Kibbutz Gadot,
Independence, until the day Israeli sol-
and the Syrian soldiers took aim at it.
diers climbed up the Golan Heights at
"The next day the newspapers came
the end of the Six-Day War and con-
to take pictures of the poor
quered it. In between were
Residents of the
little kibbutz children wash-
18 years when Syrian sol-
Golan Heights
ing their faces in the mirror
diers sat on the high
demonstrate Dec. 13, ground, the barrels of their
with the bullet holes in it,"
outside the Israeli
she recalled.
tanks and machine guns
Knesset
in Jerusalem. trained on the kibbutzim
Yitzhak Chen remembers
coming home one Friday
and cooperative farms lying
afternoon to Kibbutz Tel Katzir and
as close as a few hundred yards away.
being warned that there would be no
"In the mornings we could smell
Shabbat cake waiting for him. "I
the coffee the Syrian soldiers were
opened the door and saw that all the
preparing," said Sokol.
furniture was ruined. One of the
"We were always told that the high
Syrian shells had landed on our roof,"
stone walls we'd built on the kibbutz
he said.
would protect us. I was never scared
With Syrian President Hafez Assad
until the day after the Six-Day War
demanding the return of the Golan
ended, when I climbed up the hill to
Heights as the price of peace, and
where the Syrians had their bunkers,
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak
and I looked down," recalled
apparently ready to pay it, Israelis
Menachem "Fossy" Regev, 57, head of
these days are wondering what it
Tel Katzir. "They had been right on
might be like living with the Syrians
top of us. They could see everything. I
back on the Golan.
said to myself, 'How in the hell did
The veterans at Tel Katzir and
they manage to miss so many times?'"
Gadot are among the thousands of
Tel Katzir, near the southern tip of
Israelis in the upper Galilee region
the Sea of Galilee, was extraordinarily

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