Sayeret Matkal soldiers also took part in the daring raid on Entebbe, when they rescued 103 Jewish hostages from an airport in Uganda, where a hijacked plane had landed.

The Sayeret Matkal are also credited with the assassination of Palestinian leader Khalil Ibrahim al-Wazir, known as Abu Jihad, in 1988. After a year of planning, ...

Benjamin Netanyahu, right, during a training exercise with Sayeret Matkal, in a picture released on November 1, 1971. The unit is expected lead efforts to rescue hostages in Gaza.

The Middle East is once again on edge. What began as a sudden burst of Israeli airstrikes has now erupted into a full-blown ...

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 ...

Sayeret Matkal, whose official name translates to the General Staff Reconnaissance Unit, was established in 1957 as a special commando formation modeled after the British Special Air Service ...

Maj. Amir (Meir) Skoury, 31, a Sayeret Matkal soldier, from Jerusalem, was killed on October 7 battling the Hamas invasion of Kibbutz Be’eri. Amir and his family were staying with his parents ...

Sayeret Matkal's David Meir, idealistc, tough commando officer and gentle, loving husband and father, rushed down to Kibbutz Be'eri on October 7, where he engaged terrorists in a fierce battle ...

Sayeret Matkal This "elite command" unit is a highly trained special operations team. Essentially, they are asked to do tasks that few others would want to do or be trained to do.

Former Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, who served with Moreno in Sayeret Matkal, in an interview with Hanoch Daum, spoke about why the officer's picture is still classified to this day.

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.