specialist units. Such units are usually a regiment or a battalion in strength. Sayeret (Hebrew: סיירת, pl.: sayarot), or reconnaissance units in the Israel Defense...

Unit 262), more commonly known as Sayeret Matkal (Hebrew: סיירת מטכ״ל), is the special reconnaissance unit (sayeret) of Israel's General Staff (matkal)...

(Hebrew: שלדג, Kingfisher), is one of the premier Israeli Air Force (IAF) Sayeret units. The unit is part of the 7th Special Air Forces Wing and is based...

Maglan (Hebrew: מגלן, also known as Unit 212 or Sayeret Maglan) is a sayeret (reconnaissance) unit of the Israeli Defense Forces, which specializes in...

Unit 621, otherwise known as Sayeret Egoz (Hebrew: יחידת אגוז, Yehidat Egoz. lit. "Nut"), is an elite Israel Defense Forces (IDF) commando unit specializing...

13, 1946 – July 4, 1976) was an Israeli military officer who commanded Sayeret Matkal during the Entebbe raid. The raid was launched in response to the...

יחידה הנדסית למשימות מיוחדות, Special Operations Engineering Unit) is a sayeret (special operations forces) unit of the Israeli Combat Engineering Corps...

Unit 217, frequently called Duvdevan (Hebrew: דובדבן, lit. 'cherry'), is a mistaʽaravim unit in the Commando Brigade of the Israel Defense Forces. It is...

Israel Defense Forces decided that to join the elite Sayeret Oketz (Special K-9 unit) or Sayeret LOTAR (Special counter terrorism unit) recruits must...

the commander of the 35th Paratroopers Brigade, and the commander of the Sayeret Matkal. Halevi was the first practicing Orthodox Jew to serve as the head...

in 1973 to fight for Israel in the Yom Kippur War. Netanyahu served in Sayeret Matkal from 1970 to 1973, Israel's special forces unit, as did both his...

volunteered in the special forces unit Sayeret Matkal. After finishing the infantry officers course, he returned to Sayeret Matkal and became a squad commander...

LOTAR Unit, (Hebrew: יחידת הלוט"ר), is a counter-terrorism special forces (sayeret) unit within the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF), also known as Unit 707 or...

served for four years in the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) as an officer in Sayeret Matkal, one of the IDF's special forces units. Lewin earned the rank of...

Commando Unit 101 (Hebrew: יחידה 101) was a sayeret (commando) unit of the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF), founded and commanded by Ariel Sharon on orders...

Following his graduation, he enlisted to the IDF, where he served in Sayeret Matkal. Cohen was killed in combat near the City of Gaza on June 5, 1967...

Netanyahu was Israel's sole fatality of Operation Entebbe, and had led Sayeret Matkal during the rescue effort – he was the older brother of Benjamin...

in the Israeli military. During his service as a commando in the elite Sayeret Matkal, Barak led several highly acclaimed operations, such as: "Operation...

Program. Its special operations unit is General Staff Reconnaissance Unit (Sayeret Matkal). The IDF's Intelligence Corps (חיל המודיעין), abbreviated as Haman...

in Israel have included: Sayeret Shaked, a unit of the IDF, which operated undercover in the Gaza Strip in the 1970s Sayeret Shimshon (Unit 367), which...

Battalion (Merkava Mk.2) 603rd "Lahav"/"Blade" Armored Engineer Battalion Sayeret 7 Armored Reconnaissance Company Anti-Tank Guided Missile Company 35th...

1967 to join the Israel Defense Forces. He became a team leader in the Sayeret Matkal special forces and took part in several missions, achieving the...

United States, Bennett was born and raised in Haifa. Bennett served in the Sayeret Matkal and Maglan special forces units of the Israel Defense Forces, commanding...

Liberation of Palestine (PFLP). The commandos from the Israeli army's elite Sayeret Matkal destroyed 12 passenger airplanes belonging to Middle East Airlines...

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu; Yonatan Netanyahu, ex-commander of Sayeret Matkal; and Iddo Netanyahu, a physician, author and playwright. Benzion...

Lieutenant Colonel of one of the Israel Defense Forces' most elite unit, Sayeret Matkal (also known as the General Staff Reconnaissance Unit, or Unit 269)...

did his military service with the General Staff Reconnaissance Regiment (Sayeret Matkal). He later studied in the United States, obtaining a Bachelor's...

(Hebrew: יחידת עוקץ, lit. sting), is the independent canine special forces (sayeret) unit of the Israel Defense Forces. It was founded in 1939 as part of Haganah...

(Justice at the Supreme Court of Israel) Yonatan Netanyahu (Commander of Sayeret Matkal) Benjamin Netanyahu (Prime Minister of Israel) Iddo Netanyahu (radiologist...

medics, Nahal and Kfir Brigades, as well as some Special Forces units (Sayeret Matkal, Oketz, Duvdevan, Maglan, and the Counter-Terror School). Women...