At first the Israeli government of book Levi Eshkol took a similar view, apparently offering large-scale withdrawals; but book book det when Arab leaders remained negative the offer died.Peled felt that Israel book det must take the peace offensive even if the Arabs appeared reluctant to asp?conf respond. The resulting devastating Israeli victory, leading to the capture of east Jerusalem, the West Bank and the Golan Heights, vindicated Peled's military asp?conf judgement. In 1964 he was id=4 promoted book book det major-general and put in charge of the Logistics asp?conf id=4 Branch which brought det about significant changes in the forces.With book the threat book of asp?conf an Egyptian invasion of Israel in June 1967, Peled was insistent on an immediate pre-emptive strike, as the Egyptians had broken book their agreements and Israel could not for long retain mobilisation. asp?conf id=4 But even id=4 his closest admirers - and many remained det silent - were surprised at his persistent call to make peace with the PLO when it was still involved in terrorist acts. His political enemies in the right-wing book Likud, led by Menachem Begin and later Yitzak Shamir, saw him as a traitor id=4 whom they would have been glad to put on trial had they obtained sufficient evidence against him.

He held meetings with PLO figures at a time when it was still illegal to do so.Peled's career in the Israeli army began with the establishment of the Israeli state in 1948 when he fought on the Jerusalem front. Ten years earlier he had been accepted into the Palmach, the lite group of the Haganah defence organisation. He displayed initiative and logical thinking similar to that which marked his contemporary Yitzak Rabin. This was particularly vital when Peled commanded relief convoys to besieged Israeli settlements. Sent to the south to face the advancing Egyptians in the Negev desert, he was twice wounded when his company was surrounded.Acknowledged as a highly promising officer, Peled was later sent on a staff officers' course in England and was among the founders of the Israeli Defence Forces Staff and Command College which was to play a vital role in the development of the powerful army and air force.So conspicuous was Peled's contribution to the Sinai campaign of 1956, led by Moshe Dayan, that he was appointed military governor of the captured Gaza Strip. Matti knew how to pound on the table when it was time to go to war, like the eve of the Six-Day War, and he strongly voiced the need to make peace when he thought it was possible." Peled should be remembered, Weizmann stress-ed, as a fighter, academician and peacemaker. Peled's attitude followed Winston Churchill's dictum: staunch in war, magnanimous in peace. President Ezer Weizmann, who himself went through a painful transformation from a hawk into a dove, described Peled as "one of the most outstanding and interesting figures of the 1948 generation He was intelligent, wise and a good friend.

Yet informed Israelis never ceased to admire his courage and to appreciate his analytical mind. He was a welcome contributor not only to the liberal Haaretz newspaper but to Maariv, the mass-circulation hard-line nationalistic evening tabloid. Matti Peled was not the first Israeli public figure to seek peace with the Arabs, in particular the Palestinians, but he was the first army general with a fine combat record to devote his life to the vision of peace and to be ready to be the object of virulent attacks for doing so. Peled's critics could not deny his achievements on the field of battle, and so persisted in denigrating him as an oddity. MacfarlaneRaymond Winter Jennings, barrister: born 12 December 1897; QC 1945; Master of the Court of Protection 1956-70; Kt 1968; married 1930 Sheila Grant (died 1972; one son, one daughter); died 6 March 1995.. He made few allowances for ageing, however; when a middle- aged solicitor complained bitterly to Jennings about a lift out of action, he took pleasure in pointing out that he, at 72, had climbed the four flights to his chambers without difficulty.A B. Up to the end of the Second World War, no one under 21 was employed by the Court of Protection, because of the sensitive and confidential nature of the work, but the staff shortage after the war led to recruitment at 16, and Jennings was keen to help train this new group by attaching more experienced officers to each batch of youngsters.