The Israeli special forces unit Sayeret Matkal is on standby to try to rescue nearly 200 hostages taken by Hamas militants, it has been reported. That division and the Yamam special forces of Israel's ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

As senior generals around the table laughed dismissively at Gofman’s uncompromising call to initiate action, he was the only one who grasped the dangerous reality unfolding on the enemy’s side. The ...

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 up the ...