The commander of Sayeret Matkal, Colonel H, will finish his job in two months and, in a rare step, will not continue to serve in the IDF and will retire to civilian service, Yediot Aharonot learned.

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 ...

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 ...

JERUSALEMJERUSALEM — 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 ...

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 ...

Doron Avital has all the fluency of an insider when talking about Israeli commando operations deep in enemy terrain. A former commander of the Army’s storied Sayeret Matkal unit, Avital led a team far ...

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 ...

Israel has put its special hostage extraction unit on standby to attempt the rescue of civilians taken into Gaza by Hamas terrorists on Saturday. The unit, modelled on the British SAS, was famously ...

On June 27, 1976, an Airbus A300 operated by Air France took off from Tel Aviv on its way to Paris. Many of the 248 civilian passengers were looking forward to a summer holiday in Europe, which was ...