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"When they wanted to hit us hard — during the war — they did," Regev said. "I don't know the reason they weren't more accurate before, but I've heard the theory that the Syrians wanted to make our lives miserable, to stop us from farming, but not to kill us because that would lead the [Israeli] Army to retaliate heavily." Eitan Sat at Gadot, located well north of the Sea of Galilee, doesn't buy that theory, and for good reason. "Three of our members were killed during that time," said Sat, 64. "Raya Krolich [Goldschrnidt] was hit by a bul- let in 1954 or '55 while she was running to the clinic. Bazul — Bezalel Bobritz — was ambushed by Syrian soldiers, also in 1954, I think. One Shabbat he was walking with his girlfriend just out- side the kibbutz, and when the Syrians came at him he tried to chase them off with rocks, but they shot him. His girl- friend managed to run away. Yunke- Binyamin Krieger was killed by a shell in 1957 or '58," recalled Sat. Some other Israeli civilians were killed by Syrian soldiers — members of other kibbutzim, a water engineer, a shepherd, hikers, and fishermen in Lake Kinneret who got too close to the eastern shore. Beyond these deaths, many IDF soldiers were killed in battle — including 41 at Corazin, north of Lake Kinneret, in 1951 — and seven Israeli policemen were killed during Syria's takeover of Hamat Gader the same year. Yet Israel, for its part, also initiated many lethal attacks against Syrian troops on the Golan, although not against Syrian villages over the border, said Haifa University Prof Yoav Gelber, a leading historian of Israel's early years. The "official" Israeli explanation at that time was that Syria was always the aggressor and Israel was merely defending itself with "reprisal" actions. A few years ago, however, Israeli journalist Rami Tal caused a stir by revealing that Moshe Dayan had admitted to him in an interview that Israel had frequently started the shoot- ing to provoke the Syrians into shoot- ing back, which Israel could then use as an excuse to conquer strategic points on their disputed border. This is, of course, absolutely true," said Gelber. Tel Katzir and Gadot are among the kibbutzim and cooperative farms situ- ated along the three small demilita- rized zones that lay on the border between Israel and Syria during those 18 years of fighting. In Syria's view, those zones were no man's land," so Israel was violating the cease-fire agree- ment by farming the land or otherwise taking possession of it. Israel, on the other hand, interpreted the cease-fire accord to mean that these were demili- tarized zones where Israel was sover- "In the mornings we could smell the coffee the Syrian soldiers were preparing. ), — Tehiya Sokol eign, so as long as it kept the IDF out of the zone, it could do basically what- ever it wanted there, Gelber said. "No foreign entity supported Israel's view. The UN and the U.S. State Department supported Syria's contention about the demilitarized zones," noted Gelber. Gideon Gazit, 67, remembers how Syrian soldiers would open fire on Tel Katzir farmers going out to work the fields that lay within the demilitarized zone. "Once I went to tell the tractor driver something about where he should plow, and the Syrians started firing at us. We crouched down behind the tractor, smoked cigarettes and wait- ed for the shooting to stop," he said. This was what Gazit called Syria's "salami tactic" — laying down fire on a section of field, thus keeping kibbutz farmers away from it, which meant it was under Syrian control, then doing this again and again. "After the cease-fire agreement in 1949, the Syrians were a little more than a half-mile away from us. By the Six-Day War, they had gotten within