Raphael was sentenced to five years in prison, but she was released
after 11 months for health reasons and deported to Israel. She then
married the Norwegian lawyer who had represented her during her
trial. For that reason she was allowed to return to Norway, but she
lived under heavy protection from Palestinian terrorists, who vowed
revenge. After numerous attempts on her life, the couple moved to
Pretoria. She died of leukemia at the age of 67.RASHASH.See ASHRAF, MARWAN.REDFA, MUNIR.See STEALING THE MIG-21.REKHESH.See INFORMATION SERVICE.REPRISALS.In 1953, Unit 101, consisting of 40 highly trained spe-
cial troops, was established in the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) under
Major Ariel Sharon. Its purpose was to operate across Israel’s borders
against the home bases of Arab infiltrators. Between August 1953
and January 1954, Unit 101 conducted many reprisal raids, predom-
inantly into Egypt and Jordan, many of them against civilian targets.
In January 1954, the unit was united with the paratroopers to form
890 Paratroop Battalion.
At 9:30 P.M. on the night of 14 October 1953, IDF troops retaliated
against the Jordanian border village of Kibya, northwest of Jerusalem.
Using mortars, machine guns, rifles, and explosives they blew up 42
houses. Many civilians were killed during this reprisal raid.
Following condemnation of the Kibya operation by the interna-
tional community, Military Intelligence(MI) was asked to assess the
contribution, or its opposite, of such a military reprisal. One basic Is-
raeli position was that neighboring Arab countries were held directly
responsible for terroristinfiltration into Israel. Second, it was be-
lieved that a reprisals policy would force the Arab countries to contain
terrorism emanating from their territories. Throughout the existence of
that phase of the reprisals policy, MI did not research its implications
for Egypt, or attempt to find out if Egypt, for instance, was able to pre-
vent infiltration of terrorists into Israel from its side of the border.
Regarding Jordan, MI traced how far the reprisals policy encour-
aged the Arab Legion to halt terrorism initiated from the kingdom.REPRISALS• 23706-102 (04) Q-Z.qxd 3/24/06 7:25 AM Page 237