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He had initially intended to help Israeli basketball for only one year.

But that one year, and the excitement it generated ( while at the same time, in the days preceding the June 1967 Six Day War, Egypt and Syria were threatening to push the Israelis into the sea ), pulled Brody into a second year.

As the war was about to break out, the U. S. State Department sent him a telegram advising him to leave Israel.

Instead of heeding the advice, he volunteered his services to lead Israeli soldiers at the Jordanian border in athletic exercises, as he stayed in Israel through the war.