Attacking Iran now is perilously premature, former head of Israel’s atomic agency warns

Brig. Gen. (ret) Uzi Eilam, born Uzi Trachtenberg on Kibbutz Tel Yosef in 1934, is not trigger shy.

He fought in five wars. In 1955, in Operation Black Arrow, a bloody and audacious retaliatory raid carried out on Egyptian soil, he won the IDF’s Medal of Courage – storming an Egyptian army base at the head of a four-person squad, detonating the base’s HQ and, after a harrowing retreat under fire, returning to the scene alone — despite having been shot in the arm — to carry on his back the near lifeless body of a fellow officer.

He fought his way into the Old City of Jerusalem with the 55^th Paratroop Brigade in 1967 and served as the Director General of Israel Atomic Energy Commission from 1976-1985.

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