Storied Israeli Hero Sees More War Ahead

Published on April 30, 2024

TEL AVIV—Israel’s winemakers ought to send a free case or two to Eliezer Cohen. They owe it to him, this diminutive 90-year-old man nicknamed “Cheetah.” The Israeli Army encourages its officers to lead from the front and take initiative. Mr. Cohen did just that in 1967. In the closing hours of the Six-Day War, just before a U.N. ceasefire went into effect, he unilaterally occupied much of the Golan Heights. Israel still holds it today; President Donald Trump recognized its annexation in 2019; and the Israeli wine industry, which now wins awards, has taken root there. Mr. Cohen was just a major back then. A few days earlier, he’d led Israel’s first air assault mission, where helicopters landed paratroopers to take out Egyptian artillery batteries obstructing the path of Gen. Ariel Sharon’s tanks across the Sinai Peninsula....

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