Results for “Sayeret Matkal”

…soon as we got word he was missing, I spoke to Rabin. Since we assumed he was being held in Gaza, I ordered a unit from Sayeret Matkal to head south and co-ordinate efforts to locate him with the Shin Bet and the southern command. But it gradually became clear he might be much cl...

…old. I was 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 own role was relatively minor...

Sayeret Matkal stormed the bus at about seven in the morning. They

who was in charge of Sayeret Matkal during my final years of

the former Sayeret Matkal officer who was now head of the Shin Bet.

a former Sayeret Matkal commander and chief of staff who

to the operational units like Sayeret Matkal. It

I got a feeling this was the Sayeret Matkal

Sayeret Matkal was part of his department. He called together all the

I’d risen through Sayeret Matkal. I knew the

I ordered a unit from Sayeret Matkal to head south

still had control. And Sayeret Matkal had expertise and experience

…old. I was 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 own role was relatively minor...

…paratus ranging from Unit 8200, our sophisticated signals collection and decryption unit, to the operational units like Sayeret Matkal. It was what was at stake if things went wrong: success or failure in war, and the life or death of thousands of men on the battlefield. It was a...

…dings in the same corner of the base where I’d reported a decade earlier, as a 19-year-old fresh from fironut, when the sayeret was still a gleam in Avraham Arman’s eye. Now, I was about to become the first of his successors to have been chosen from within the unit itself. As I c...