The Eagle has landed

Ezer Weizman served Israel with power and independence

HE WAS, DOUGLAS DAVIS WROTE IN THE Jewish Star in 1993, generally stereotyped in the political realm as a "super-hawk-turned-superdove".

But Ezer Weizman -- among the founder's of Israel's air force and the country's seventh president, who died April 24 only a few week's prior to Israel Independence Day -- was neither.

In "appearance and temperament," Davis wrote, "he bears a closer resemblance to an eagle -- powerful and independent, unpredictable and volatile, poised at any moment to swoop on his unsuspecting prey."

The nephew of Chaim Weizmann, Israel's first president, and the brother-in-law to Moshe …