A time to kill a time to heal by Yotam Degan 2021 178pg + notes on Start Up Nation

 This is the story of the Israeli SEAL fighters on Sea Air and Land.14/6/21

The story starts on Kibbutz Maagan Michael where in March 1978the terrorists entered Israel from the beach killed Gail Ruben they walked past Yotam who remained hidden; he knew that something was wrong as Israeli soldiers did not carry AK47. They hijacked a bus and were eventually stopped in a shootout at the Country Club junction. This was the Coastal Road massacre 1978 to derail the Begin Sadat talks and led to the Litany War.

As a kid he spent a few years in the States and so had full mastery of English and Hebrew.

Shayetet 13 is the Israel navy Seals. The Israeli navy was set up to smuggle refugees from Europe into Palestine under the British. The Ayalon Institute near Rechovot produced 4 million 9mm rounds produced clandestinely under the British, and this was vital for the War of Independence after that they set up Maagan Michael and the fish ponds in the swampy land near the beach.

You cannot used air tanks when doing military diving as you bubble trail will be seen so you use a rebreather, where chemicals filter out he CO2.

2 divers have a line joining them so that if one is in stress the other can help but in rough sees this line can break

 1991. He left the army and did private diving work but was called back when the gulf war began .

1999 studied and became a clinical psychologist as the navy needed him in that role, he realized he had to heal himself also and many soldiers become affected by post trauma syndrome.

He recommended that in screening of new recruits less trainees and get a better success rate than the 30%  who succeeded.

The Palmach founded by the British Army, was the core of what later became the IDF and the always were innovating.

The navy was involved in Operation Moses to bring Ethiopian Jewry to Israel from a holiday base in Sudan.

1974 Hostage crises negotiation started to deal with the Maalot terrorist attack. 25 hostages including 22 children were killed.

2000Oct till mid 2022 over 100 suicide bombers exploded in Israel.

2002 Apr the army attacked the terrorist stronghold in Jenin where the suicide material was made and got 266 terrorist to surrender.

When you ascend from a disable submarine one must just slowly empty your lungs otherwise you get barotrauma and can burst your lungs. Training has to be done for this.

He dealt with the US army veterans where more ex-soldiers died by their own hands than in battle against the enemy from post trauma.

He happened to be studying in Boston when the Marathon was attacked and was involved in helping people in stress from the attack. When he was in the States he was involved with traumatized people from the mass shooting, the nightclub in Orlando Florida 2017 and the Church in San Antonio 2018. He was asked to give an opinion on Gun control he said a trained soldier does not go into a minefield.

Setting up NATAL in Israel. Proactive Intervention for trauma.

The book ends in 2020 when they deal with people who lost loved ones in the Covid epidemic

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Start-up Nation by Dan Senor and Pual Singer 1/12/2010 This is a fascinating book and very readable. Why do so many patents get invented in Israel? A whole lot of circumstances are just right to lead to this in fact this has become a new form of modern day Zionism and the book shows that money is a incentive but purpose and idealism are very important in leading to invention. Israel is a very informal society and in business or the army everyone knows people by their first names, so information cross fertilizes rather than waiting for it to move via a hierarchy. Democracy is also very much part of this and Judaism which has always promoted learning has another aspect that everything has to be discussed and even if this leads to chaos. Nothing is accepted on face value and their is no Pope to make laws. Then the role that the army plays in this. Israel is one of the few Democratic Western countries that has conscription with the result that the army is able to choose the best of the society to train into the jobs needed to be done. Young junior army officers have to take responsibility and leadership for their soldier in the field and make life or death decisions, then later might go to university and know their aims and are older already when they study. The army also provides the connections and fraternity for them in later life business. In the early days of the State, Ben Gurion encouraged the development of the aeronautic industry for military purposes which lead to the development science industries. The Hebrew University and Weitzman Institute were started before the State even existed. The fact that Israel is a small country and immigrant state and immigrants arriving have to reinvent themselves to adapt to their new circumstances. He points out that creative people have had government help in Israel but a country like Dubia the government has poured millions into modernizing the country but the academics and workers brought in do it to take out what they can get and have no idealism to develop the Gulf State. This is a fascinating book and tells you a lot about Israeli society.