#1 Thankfully we ignored Abie Nathan's calls on Voice of Peace radio
It was 1973 and I was on Kibbutz Saad in the Negev.
Yom Kippur was just over and in a few minutes I was supposed to go over to the bomb shelter to help clear it out. The nightmarish war was well underway and many had already been called up and left Saad before the fast ended.
I flipped on my radio trying to get some news about the war and there was someone on in English urging the soldiers to put down their weapons. Not to fight. I thought it was an Arab station. But it wasn't. It was Abie Nathan on the Voice of Peace.
On August 2, 1995 I asked him about it:
IMRA: Did you ever get any flack from people who remember that you called for soldiers to put down their arms at the start of the Yom Kippur War? READ MORE
