It is the government's job to prevent war, and your job to make it impossible' PM Menahem Begin said at the Air Force 30th anniversary celebration, minutes before pinning wings on a group of newly graduated pilots.

The were no newly-unveiled aircraft participating in the show. But there were old planes which had been taken out of mothballs for the display: a reconditoned Harward trainer;a mgnificent Rapid light transport-bomber which is said to have bombed Aman in 1948; Ezer Weizman's black Spitfire, flown through breathtaking twists and turns by Israel Aircraft Industries;and a combined flypast be veteran O…