Where Sayeret Matkal appears
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…a key role was a group of four young women, led by Orna Angel, a successful architect and a former soldier in Sayeret Matkal. She built from scratch an army of nearly 20,000 volunteers who helped 309 / BARAK / 24 organize events and contact...
on seemed not to faze him. Hours into the invasion, he moved an armored force toward Kuwait’s border with Saudi Arabia, a key US regional ally, immediately prompting the President George Bush’s administration to go beyond mere verbal condem...
…got to the commanders and field units that needed it. And while the details of many operations I approved for Sayeret Matkal and other units remain classified, we did succeed in doing
…mmand. They had set up a rooftop observation post just a few hundred yards in from where I had landed with my Sayeret Matkal team a decade earlier for the Rue Verdun operation. It overlooked a pair of Palestinian refugee camps: Sabra and, a...
at Stanford, or maybe just the fact our paths had first crossed two decades earlier when I was in Sayeret Matkal. But even though it meant leaving my division command, especially tough since the final Sinai withdrawal was approaching, it wa...
… need to send us,” I said. I tried to persuade him that if it came down to an operation to free our hostages, Sayeret Matkal offered the best hope that it would not end in a bloodbath. We had the mind-set, the background, the training and n...
within sight of the hijacked jet. Dayan also arranged for another Boeing 707, ostensibly to take the “freed prisoners” on to Cairo. “What then?” Ze’evi asked Dayan. “We’re not really going to put them on a plane and take off!” It was after...
to hide my view we should have moved against the hijackers while we had the chance. But 119 Dado sat me down and filled me in on what was obviously a changing situation. He said the terrorists had allowed the pilot, Reginald Levy, to come s...
… using the Berettas. None of us had trained on them. But many of the air marshals on board El Al flights were Sayeret Matkal reservists, and they did use Berettas. I told Danny to check for any sayeret marshals arriving on El Al flights and...
xpand the role of the sayeret. It was the luck of the draw. With the growing threat of terrorism, the kirya had drawn up a list of installations which might be targeted. Next to 116 each, they’d put the name of the military unit to be calle...
…uld eventually return to Israel, he was teaching at Cornell when his sons became officers under my command in Sayeret Matkal. So there was a physical distance between father and sons. But what struck me was how large the father loomed in bo...
…med increasingly to demand one. Avraham’s initial hopes and expectations for the unit had been more than met. Sayeret Matkal had played the key role in erasing the traumas of Uri Ilan and Rotem, and restoring the morale and effectiveness of...
…ns. But perhaps the most important sign of Avraham’s confidence was to involve me in early efforts to broaden Sayeret Matkal’s experience and reach beyond pure intelligence missions – to create a true special forces unit that could fight as...
… from Company A of Battalion 890, where Yigal had served in the 1950s. “Which sayeret?” I asked. “It’s called Sayeret Matkal,” he replied. I’d never heard of it. When I asked what it did, he said: “I’m not allowed to say. But are you intere...
… using the Berettas. None of us had trained on them. But many of the air marshals on board El Al flights were Sayeret Matkal
to the operational units like Sayeret Matkal. It
the former Sayeret Matkal officer who was now head of the Shin Bet.
Sayeret Matkal stormed the bus at about seven in the morning. They
… finishing my studies in math, physics and economics at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, and had joined my Sayeret Matkal comrades the night before the assault. It was a huge operation: ten battalions, including crack infantry units. Our...
…getting early warning of an enemy attack. But they decided the price of possible failure was simply too high. Sayeret Matkal was born three years later. Avraham was still part of the unit running low-level agents in Syria and Lebanon, but h...
