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 Telegraph reported.

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.

As Israel's political leadership entered into negotiations, Sayeret Matkal, with Netanyahu's elder brother, Yonatan, on board, made their way to East Africa by cargo plane and exited the aircraft ...

The International Human Rights Observatory and B’nai B’rith Portugal on Monday honored the memory of Yonathan Netanyahu, the ...

Killed battling Hamas terrorists in Kibbutz Kfar Aza on October 7 The post Maj. Tal Cohen, 30: Sayeret Matkal commander and ‘the proudest father’ appeared first on The Times of Israel.

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 ...

Such an operation, of a kind which Barak is personally familiar given his Sayeret Matkal experience, "needs so much intelligence to be so accurate, such a tightly controlled situation, and there ...

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 mother ...

However, its most elite forces are Shayetet 13, Unit 669, and Sayeret Matkal. Matkal has been compared to Delta Force in the U.S. and is considered a field intelligence-gathering unit. Tags ...

Avner Wishnitzer is a former member of Sayeret Matkal, one of the Israel Defense Forces’ elite commando units, and Sulaiman Khatib spent more than 10 years in prison after being arrested as a ...

Moshe Ya’alon, who served for three decades in the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), including in the elite Sayeret Matkal commando unit, and as the military’s chief of staff, also said that he ...