Results for “Sayeret Matkal”

…ostly wore sandals and shorts. We called each other by our first names, even the officers. In its first few years, the sayeret sometimes felt less like an army unit than a college fraternity. Every spring, we organized a feast in a cavernous hangar on the edge of our compound. I...

…e could get it installed and working. But the men in my team were soldiers I’d trained from the day they arrived in the sayeret. Achihud Madar was unfailingly surefooted, whether finding his way alone at night on unfamiliar ground or in a firefight inside a building. He also had...

…happened, starting with why we hadn’t known ahead of time that two neighboring states were about to attack us — despite sayeret intercepts that could have given us time to call up all our reserves. Disentangling the details would take months. But we already knew the human cost of...

the man who had addressed us on the sayeret

he said: “How would you feel about joining a sayeret?”

the sayeret’s intelligence liaison was approached

to infiltrate sayeret teams along the shore of Lake Victoria

and sayeret experience. But I was still gaining brigade command

we met whenever I wasn’t preparing for a sayeret operation. This was

I was working almost non-stop on preparing for a sayeret

…budge — even when I waved back Nechamia and the others and took out an ordinary wrench. Though this was the first of my sayeret missions that ended in failure, that wasn’t what worried me as we boarded our helicopter back into Israel a couple of hours before dawn. It was the real...

telling him that every sayeret commander was different

then during my period as sayeret commander. We

bringing the size of the sayeret to twenty. We were almost all

the whole sayeret held a four-day exercise in the Galilee.