Denverite endured, survived, over three years in Egyptian prison

CHANUKAH 5780 SECTION E PAGE 10 June 30, 1970, Israeli Air Force pilot Jeff Peer was in the cockpit of a then state-of-the-art, American-made F4 fighter jet. A few feet behind him was his navigator. Several thousand feet below was terra firma — specifically, the thin blue line of the Suez Canal, on the west of which was Egyptian territory, on the east of which was the Sinai Peninsula, captured and held by Israel since the Six Day War three years earlier. It was during what Israelis call the War of Attrition, a name denoting a rather vague period of regular but low intensity conflict between Israel and the several Arab states it had fought in 1967. Peer’s role in the conflict had mainly to […]