Abstract

The following document is from The Israel Defense Forces and Defense Establishment Archives. It has been translated from Hebrew.1For the diary: A meeting with Herbert Marcuse at the Defense Minister's office. December 29, 1971, 20:00.In attendance: The Minister of Defense; Shlomo Gazit; Yehuda Elkana of the Van Leer Institute; Naphtali Lavie.. The Minister of Defense: Let's see what happened in 1957. We had a controversy whether2 to evacuate the Shlomo-Straits [Straits of Tiran] back then. Already then…