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 ...

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 ...

The refusal of thirteen reservists in Israel’s elite commando unit, Sayeret Matkal, to serve on missions in the Occupied Territories is the latest expression of the growing opposition within the armed ...

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 ...

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 ...

Judah Ari Gross is The Times of Israel's religions and Diaspora affairs correspondent. IDF Chief of Staff Gadi Eisenkot on Tuesday awarded a combat soldier in Military Intelligence the Medal of ...