A soldier on guard at the gate of an army camp looked through a car window and, seeing Arabs dressed in traditional Muslim garb, waved the car through.
“You look familiar from somewhere,” the soldier told one of the passengers.
That man was the Israel Defense Force chief of staff, Lt. Gen. Ehud Barak, who was using the disguise for an unannounced spot-check of IDF installations.
Army sources later said the inspection was “generally satisfactory.” But Barak left orders to tighten up some aspects of discipline at the base.
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