JERUSALEM – When Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had to fill a sensitive Cabinet post recently, he turned to an old army buddy from his days in an elite commando unit. His choice for minister of ...

ISRAEL is preparing to launch a celebrated special forces unit modelled on Britain’s SAS to rescue hostages in Gaza. The Sayeret Matkal are the prime special forces unit of Israel and experts in ...

Israel's most elite special operations force, Sayeret Matkal, is being prepped for extremely dangerous hostage-rescue missions in the Gaza Strip, British daily The ...

Maj. (res.) David Haim Meir, 31, a Sayeret Matkal soldier, from Jerusalem, was killed on October 7 battling the Hamas invasion of Kibbutz Be’eri. A reservist in the elite unit, David was called up the ...

In a first, the voice of the slain Lieutenant Colonel Emanuel Moreno will be heard at a memorial for "Israel's top soldier". Moreno is considered one of Israel's most daring soldiers and commanded a ...

Beginning at the end of the year, female IDF recruits will have the option to undergo tests that would enable them to serve in combat roles in the prestigious Sayeret Matkal commando unit, the IDF ...

Public Security Minister Omer Barlev’s revelation of previously classified details of an elite soldier’s 1984 death during a television interview Tuesday has sparked renewed interest in the ...

Sayeret Matkal Commander, Major Tal Cohen HY"D, or TalCo as he was affectionately called by his men, liked to say that there are four Independence Days, not just one, that take place during the spring ...