I was sitting on, a beach just south of Eilat, Israel on a Sunday afternoon in 1981..
We were having a nice BBQ... a bunch of us who were working on COE/IDF project up in the Negev..
Then you could hear "that" sound that F16s and F15s make.. as they got into formation over our heads and headed out.. across the Gulf of Eilat....
I remember vividly that my friends and I were kind of confused and WTF that a Squadron of Israeli fighters just lit off across the Gulf of Eilat.
We knew that Jordan and Saudi Arabia a few minutes away on that course...
The next day we heard on VOA or something about the strikes on the Iraqi reactors....
The map is a little misleading as when I was there the Sinai was occupied by Israel.. where I was was just south of Eilat when the squadron passed overhead