 In 1961, after his recovery, Yarkoni was re-appointed as Commanding Officer of the Shaked Battalion.At the time, the Military Commander commented that ""if Moshe Dayan could be the Ramatkal (Chief of General Staff) without an eye, we can have a Battalion Commander with a prosthetic hand"".Even by this stage, many Israelis did not know that Amos Yarkoni was not Jewish