(Ha'aretz) Gili Cohen - Former Singapore Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew, who died Monday at age 91, revealed in his autobiography that Israel had helped set up his country's army. Lee recalled that he had approached several nations asking for military advice, but it was Israel who responded. Lee wrote that in November 1965, a group of Israeli soldiers arrived in Singapore under a veil of secrecy. "To disguise their presence, we called them 'Mexicans'." The job of building Singapore's army was given to Maj. Gen. Rehavam Ze'evi.
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