A photograph taken by Haim Goldberg at the memorial service for the Sayeret Matkal soldier, Major (Res.) David Meir, shows his young nephew Jonathan standing among the mourners, weeping deeply ...

How can Dichter – once the head of the Shin Bet and a veteran of the elite Sayeret Matkal unit – stay silent? Of all people, he should understand the value of military service, says the writer.

If you open Rav Kook’s prayer book, Olat Re’iyah, and turn to the end of the celebratory Hakafot of Simchat Torah, you will encounter the verse: הַרְנִינוּ גוֹיִם עַמּוֹ ...

He returned to Israel in 1967 to join the Israel Defense Forces and served in the Sayeret Matkal special forces as a captain before being honorably discharged. After graduating from the ...

The six Israeli hostages murdered in a Rafah tunnel at the end of August were likely human shields for Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar and survived for months on energy bars until they were finally ...

A year ago, in October 2023, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was grappling with his country's most significant security failure, facing backlash both at home and abroad. After decades of ...

(B) A block of three litter baskets in the Sayeret Shaked site. Macro-basket in front, meso-basket on the right and micro-basket on the left. The precipitation map courtesy of the Hebrew University ...

Maj. Ilay Zisser, 27, a soldier in the elite Sayeret Matkal unit, from Givat Ela, was killed on October 7 battling the Hamas invasion of Kibbutz Kfar Aza. At 7:30 that morning, he was called in to ...

Halevi, born in 1967, began his career in the IDF in 1985, serving in the Paratroopers Brigade and then in the elite Sayeret Matkal unit. He served in Lebanon and fought in the Second Intifada.

Maj. Chen Buchris, the deputy commander of Maglan, from Ashdod. Maj. Ariel Ben Moshe, a Sayeret Matkal commander. Maj. Roi Chapel, a Nahal commander, from Zichron Yaakov. Cpt. Adir Ovadi, a commander ...