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A4 THE TORONTO STAR. Tuesday, August 9. 1977
Metro man Israeli hero
--. By RON LOWMAN
Star staff writer
Sid Hurnich has a secre ;
and although Israel gave
him it! Medal of Honor for
it, he wont say what it is.
The self-taught electron-
ics expert, who suil does
appliance repairs at home.
-knows it scrambled Ugan-
dan President Idi Amin's
radar and allowed Israels
aircraft to land undetected
during the raid on Entebbe.
That's why he was award-
ed the medal.
his deince not as. an inver.
tion. but simply as "a dif. . tions of war."
ferent use for one of the old-
est basic principles ot elec-
tricity - and it stops bombs . lish. are the words: "Four
from going off.".
PREVENT THEFTS
-
It started out as a device.
apparently electro-magnet-
ic, to help banks prevent
thefts of money bags from
night deposit boxes at their .
branches. In 1969. Hurwich
called up two police inspec-
for friends. Bill Bolton. sow
retired. and Dave Cowan,
and suggested they bring
some bankers' representa-
tives over to his house.
The battery-powered de-
Vice was hidden under a
bedspread, but when he
switched it on. no one could
lift acy of the bags they had
brought for the demonstra-
tion.
"Neither Dave Dor I could
pull the triggers on our un.
loaded service revolvers,"
Bolton told The Star "We
couldn't even pick them
up."
ALL STOPPED
Twenty minutes after
they had entered the room,
Horaich toli everybody to
told a Toronto luncheon
! audience that his piane
iended in the cloak of a
chattan plane's noise -- in
-
.. dariness. Radar.wise peo-
ple present took that state-
ment with a large grain of
salt.
"i had an idea the device
was used at Entebbe." said
. Hurmich. "But when the
general was bere. I found
out for sure that it was. It's
flexible and bas many
uses."
. His own synagogue. the
orthodox Shaarei Sho-
ma :: m. took cote of his
Now 63. a widower, father
of two children and grandfa-
inedai and described his
instrument as "a secret de.
ther is four, he described vice which saved thousands
of Israeli lives in the opera-
- Star photo by Dave Karris
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