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This is the story of how the Israel Defense Forces attempted to mobilize its reservists in a drill in 1959 to test the call-up system on national radio, while needing to be sure that citizens didn\u2019t misunderstand the exercise to mean that a war loomed, but neglecting to make that clear in the broadcast, but then having enemies react by mobilizing because they figured Israel really was<\/em> planning to attack (so did IDF soldiers and Israel\u2019s population), but then red-faced political leaders and IDF brass admitting that this might\u2019ve been a colossal screw-up and then having to prevent escalation into a real war\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Well, the incident came to be lampooned as “Night of the Ducks,” a play on one of the code words the military had selected for the faux mobilization.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Night of the Ducks? It might as well have been Israel\u2019s hybrid sequel to the Marx Brothers\u2019 1930s comedies A Night at the Opera<\/em> and Duck Soup<\/em>, no doubt produced by Chelm Studios.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wait, wait \u2014 there\u2019s more. The episode even involved a Belgian royal, Queen Elisabeth the Queen Mother.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And here\u2019s the kicker: This scenario occurred on April 1.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rest assured that you, dear reader, are not being pranked this April Fools\u2019 Day, when people like to play practical jokes. The crisis in Israel truly occurred on April 1, 1959.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That Wednesday night, Israel Radio informed listeners that soldiers in three units \u2014 codenamed “Water Ducks,<\/ins>” “Expression of Importance” and “Band of Artists” \u2014 should report the next day to reserve duty. It was meant to test the military\u2019s responsiveness. Problem was that the IDF didn\u2019t clue anyone in that the call-up was merely a drill.<\/p>\n\n\n

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IDF artillery forces in the 1950s, photo<\/a> by Nadav Mann, Bitmuna. From the Yitzhak Sadeh collection. Collection source: Yoram Sadeh. The Pritzker Family National Photography Collection, the National Library of Israel<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n

Hearing the announcement, Israelis sensibly figured that a security crisis brewed, perhaps even that war was imminent. So did Arab countries monitoring the radio. In response, for example, Syrian reserve units were called up and Jordan raised its alert level.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Israel\u2019s leaders were left in the dark and fell for it, too. Knesset deliberations on the budget were interrupted as parliamentarians headed for radios to learn what was happening. Rumors spread. One minister announced that Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion, who also served as Defense Minister, was incommunicado.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The mistake was corrected on the radio later that night, and calm was restored. The Foreign Ministry alerted other governments to the blunder and reassured them that Israel wasn\u2019t on war footing. Even Belgium\u2019s former queen and the mother of its then-king, Elisabeth Wittelsbach, during a week-long visit in Israel, had to be persuaded that the country remained safe enough to stay in. (In 1965, two months before her death at age 89, Elisabeth was awarded Yad Vashem\u2019s Righteous Among the Nations designation for intervening with Nazi officials to release several hundred Belgian Jews during the Shoah.)<\/p>\n\n\n

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Former IDF Chief of Staff, Lt. Gen Haim Laskov, seen here smoking a pipe. Photo<\/a> by by Boris Karmi, the Meitar Collection, the Pritzker Family National Photography Collection, the National Library of Israel<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n

In fact, in the chaotic moments following the radio announcement, Ben-Gurion sought to reach IDF Chief of Staff Haim Laskov. He telephoned the concert hall where Laskov was attending an event honoring the Queen Mother. An employee there, figuring himself to be the butt of an April Fools\u2019 prank, hung up when the caller identified himself as the Prime Minister. Ben-Gurion called back, and again was hung up on. And yet again. Finally, Ben-Gurion prevailed upon the man to summon Laskov \u2014 pronto.<\/p>\n\n\n

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IDF chief Haim Laskov was forced to explain the mix-up to Belgium’s Queen Mother, from the April 10, 1959 issue of The Detroit Jewish News<\/a><\/em>, the Historical Jewish Press Collection at the National Library of Israel<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n

It wasn\u2019t Israel\u2019s finest hour. Ben-Gurion set up a commission of inquiry. \u201cThe failure was not in the call-up but in the broadcasting,\u201d he said. The flub came about, he explained, because, while the call-up drill was planned, its timing hadn\u2019t been decided \u2014 and the broadcast occurred without the Defense Minister (himself) or Laskov having approved it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Laskov (left) and Ben-Gurion (right), pictured about a decade before the incident, when Laskov was still a colonel. Photo<\/a> by Benno Rothenberg, the Meitar Collection, the Pritzker Family National Photography Collection, the National Library of Israel<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The fall-out was severe. Two top IDF major-generals, Chief of Reserves Meir Zorea and Chief of Military Intelligence Yehoshafat Harkabi, lost their jobs. A no-confidence motion was brought in the Knesset; the government easily defeated it and remained in power.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With the passage of 65 years, the episode can be shrugged off as an amusing anecdote, even a footnote.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Indeed, Yoav Gelber, a retired professor of Israeli military history who at the time was a 16-year-old student at a military boarding school in Haifa, chuckled about the incident during a telephone conversation this week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But the backstory he related was no laughing matter. It was a story he learned of years later directly from Laskov, who Gelber said was \u201ca good friend\u201d of his.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In short: There was never meant to be a call-up. The duck hunting was all a decoy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In those days, Gelber explained, Egypt flew surveillance planes into Israel at night, certain that doing so carried little risk: By the time the Israeli Air Force responded, the Egyptians would have photographed the areas they desired and departed. So the IAF\u2019s commander in chief, Ezer Weizmann (later to become Israel\u2019s president), set up an ambush. Announcing the IDF\u2019s mobilization would draw Egypt\u2019s surveillance planes. IAF planes by then would be aloft, ready to shoot down the Egyptian planes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For some reason, Egypt didn\u2019t bite and its planes stayed away.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Maj. Gen. Ezer Weizmann, head of the Israeli Air Force and future Israeli President, pictured speaking at an IDF ceremony in 1959. Photo<\/a> by Boris Karmi, the Meitar Collection, the Pritzker Family National Photography Collection, he National Library of Israel<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n

That night, Gelber recalled, military commanders at his school ordered students to report to the armory to take weapons. Gelber went to sleep alongside a Czech rifle. When he woke up, things had returned to normal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gelber said that at the time, he was cognizant of the date, so he first suspected that the call-up order was a gag. He then decided it was real because, he reasoned, \u201cit was at night, and April Fools\u2019 jokes you generally do in the morning.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The incident \u201cwasn\u2019t funny at all. It was very serious,\u201d said Gelber.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Not that he resisted temptation decades later.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gelber related a story from his days as a battalion commander in the reserves. This was in 1982, soon before the Lebanon War broke out. Gelber told his soldiers that because of the security situation, he was cancelling all vacations and leaves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His men groaned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cEveryone swallowed it. No one suspected,\u201d Gelber said, giggling like a comedian struggling to restrain himself from revealing the punch line.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThen I told them to look at the calendar. It was April 1.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Writer-editor Hillel Kuttler can be reached at <\/em>hk@HillelTheScribeCommunications.com<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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