Europe. Among the few possessions returned to his family were maps of Sinai, on which he had apparently refought the war during his jungle exile, and a copy of Kabbalistic work in which the former yeshiva student may have sought explanations for the disaster that had overtaken him beyond what the maps could tell. (Rabinovich, The Yom Kippur War, p. 506) In an interview with the Maariv daily newspaper on 7 August 2003, his personal assistant, Amir Porat, revealed that Gonen considered assassinating Moshe Dayan after the war, and that he lived in fear that he would somehow "disappear". Throughout his entire military career, he was considered to be a strict disciplinarian, a political right-winger, and even a militarist. His tragic life story was the subject of a play, Gorodish, by Israeli author Hillel Mittelpunkt. References Israeli people of the Yom Kippur War Israeli generals 1930 births 1991 deaths Recipients of the Medal of Courage Polish emigrants to Mandatory Palestine Burials at Kiryat Shaul Cemetery