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 ...

Special forces planning for hostage rescues following the Hamas attack on Israel on Oct. 7 face a number of complications in the Gaza Strip – an extremely dense urban environment that is the home turf ...

Opening fire as they stormed the plane's emergency exits and charged up the aisle, Israel's elite Sayeret Matkal commandos killed two Palestinian hijackers and overpowered the others, saving all but ...

Maj. Amir (Meir) Skoury, 31, a Sayeret Matkal soldier, from Jerusalem, was killed on October 7 battling the Hamas invasion of ...

A highly decorated former Israeli defense minister has caused a firestorm by accusing Israel of carrying out ethnic cleansing of Palestinians in northern Gaza. Moshe Ya’alon, who served for three ...

Almost two years after he was killed in captivity during a failed IDF operation to rescue him, Sahar Baruch will be laid to rest tomorrow (Sunday). Yesterday Maj. Gen. (res.) Yossi Bachar, who served ...

For decades, they were Israel’s shadow heroes, staging daring operations in places such as Entebbe and Lebanon and emerging into the limelight only when it came time to take top civilian posts. But ...