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One of the first phone calls made by the soldier in the Egoz unit who
ultimately killed Duwiyat - after he was wounded by a policewoman - was to
the soldier's brother-in-law, David Shapira - the army officer that killed
the terrorist who infiltrated Merkaz Harav. Shapira, now an officer in the
Paratroops Brigade, was in the midst of an exercise in the Golan Heights
this week. At the same time, an initial report about the attack in Jerusalem
was passed along the chain of command, from Egoz to the Golani Brigade and
onward. "That's the Egoz mentality," said one senior officer. "They're
taught to be that way from their first week of basic training." And it was,
in fact, such a soldier, who had just completed his basic training and was
on his first regular furlough, who knew how to establish contact, storm the
terrorist and finally end the rampage, although a large number of older
police officers were also around.

Shapira had one piece of advice for his brother-in-law: "Stay away from
reporters." The Egoz soldier followed these orders. He wrote a brief
description of the event, read it into the Israel Defense Forces
spokesperson's tape recorder, and avoided any further contact (which didn't
stop some media outlets from presenting his comments as if made in an
interview). Later, just to be certain, the soldier requested a gag order be
put on his name and his photo, although they had already appeared
extensively in Israel and abroad following the attack.

A junkie and a martyr
By Avi Issacharoff and Amos Harel Haaretz 4 July 2008
www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/998807.html