By rushing to confront the attackers himself, Israel Ziv has become a public symbol of Israel’s former military successes — and its failure this time.
BE'ERI, Israel -- Israel Ziv, a retired Israeli army general, was taking a bike ride Saturday morning when a flood of alarming calls started coming in. A huge barrage of rockets had been fired from the Gaza Strip. Gunmen from Hamas, the armed Palestinian group that controls the territory, were pouring across the border. Soon he would learn a friend's son was trapped in a kibbutz. He raced home, put on his uniform and grabbed his weapon, a 9 mm pistol.
Just about everywhere he went, soldiers and civilians thanked him, then shyly asked for a selfie. His account of what he did Saturday has been backed up by other retired generals and active duty officers who fought with him over the weekend. He left his house, a beautiful home overlooking olive groves near Tel Aviv, and arrived in the battle zone around 10 a.m. He was traveling with a close friend, Noam Tibon, a retired general whose son was trapped in the Nahal Oz kibbutz.
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