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—j^Huwich-ha&.a. jsecrg:
.and
although
Israel
gave
him
its Medal
of Honor
for
it, he wont say what
it is.
The
self-taught
electron-
ics
expert,
who
suii does
..
appliance repairs
at home,
.'knows
it scrambled Ugan-
dan
President
Idi
Amin’s
radar
and
allowed
Israeli
aircraft to
land
undetected
during the raid on Entebbe.
That's why he was award-
,
<sd the medal.
Now 63. a widower, father
ijf two children and grandfa-
h:s device
not
as. an inven-
tion. but simply as “a
dif-
.
ferent use for one of the old-
est basic principles
ot elec-
tricity — ar.d
it stops bombs
.
from golngbff."
,
..
.
.
PREVENT THEFTS
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It started out as a device,
aoparentlv
electro-magnet-
ic.
to
help banks
prevent
thefts of money, bags from
night deposit boxes
a* their
•
branches.
In
1569. Hurwich
'
called up two police inspec-
tor friends.
Bill Bolton, now
retired,
and
Dav e
Cowan,
.
and
surgested
tnev
bring
some
bankers'
represents-
’
lives over to his house.
The
battery-powered
de-
«
vice was
hidden-under
a
:
liedspread, but
when
he
switched it on. no one could
lift any of the bogs they had
brought lor the demonstra-
:
lion.
I
“Neither Dave nor I could
;
pull the triggers on our un-
‘
loaded
service
revolvers,"
;
Bolton told The
Star
“We
couldn’t
even
pick
them
j
up.”
ALL STOPPED
j
‘ Twenty
minutes after
;
they had entered the room.
Hvrwich
tclri
evervbodv
to
'
told
a
Toronto
.luncheon
auience
that
his
plane
landed
in
the
cloak
of
a
w-trten—plane's
noise—
in
darkness.
Radar-wise
peo-
ple
present took
that
state-
ment
with
i
large grain
of
SojL
”i had an idea the device
was used at Entebbe.’’ said
Hurwich.
’'But
when
the
general was
here,
I
found
out for sure that
it was. It's
flexible and
has
many
uses."
. His own
synagogue,
the
orthodox
Shaarei
S h o-
nay.m.
took
note
of
his
medal
and
described
his
instrument as ”a secret
de-
vice W-Ifh
tauP.-t tV.pn<iinrt<
of Israeli lives in the opera-
tions ol war."
Or.
the
bronze
Israeli
medal, w Hebrew and Eng-
lish. are
the words:
"Four
times
f or
war -add
four
!
times for peace.” On the ob-
;
verse
is
written:
‘‘.And
all
;
her paths
are peace ” The
;
engraving
shows
an
olive
*
branch and
sword, and on
'
the other side,
the sun
ris-
ing over a ship.
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