Israeli Sayeret Matkal commandos recapture the plane the following day.

He fought in the Six-Day War, Yom Kippur War, 1982 Lebanon War, and Operation Entebbe with the paratroopers and Sayeret Matkal, an elite special forces unit.

He participated in the Six-Day War, Yom Kippur War, 1982 Lebanon War, and Operation Entebbe with the paratroopers and Sayeret Matkal, an elite special forces unit.

Beside the Sayeret Matkal, they are considered to be the unit with the most influence on the Israeli infantry oriented units — including both special and conventional units.

Beside the Sayeret Matkal, they are considered to be the unit with the most influence on the Israeli infantry oriented units including both special and conventional units.

That is the main reason why Avraham Arnan formed the Sayeret Matkal in 1958.

In various ways the Sayeret Matkal combined the operational experience gathered by Unit 101 and relied on the structure of the British Special Air Service.

The best known of these are Sayeret Matkal, Shayetet 13 and Yehidat Shaldag.

Those wanting to join Sayeret Matkal, Shaldag, Unit 669, Shayetet 13, the submarine service or Hovlim ( Naval Officers Course ) must go to Yom Sayarot and perform the respective tests for each service option.

The primary commando units of the Israel Defense Forces include Shayetet 13, Sayeret Matkal and the Shaldag Unit.

Its formation was based on the expertise of the Israeli Sayeret Matkal.

At Ben-Gurion International Airport, two hijackers were shot and killed by the Israeli Sayeret Matkal special forces.

* The film Munich includes a scene reflecting the real Barak's experience leading his Sayeret Matkal unit in the commando raid Operation Spring of Youth ; he is mentioned by name, and appears disguised as a woman in high heels while firing on presumed PLO Leaders.

October 30, 1968: Israeli helicopter-borne Sayeret Matkal commandos carry out Operation Helem ( Shock ), destroying an Egyptian electric transformator station, two dams along the Nile River and a bridge.

July 19 – 20, 1969: Operation Bulmus 6 – Israeli Shayetet 13 and Sayeret Matkal commandos raid Green Island, resulting in the total destruction of the Egyptian facility.

He was however too late in stopping the massacre, only one of the victims survived, but he killed the entire Israeli command of soldiers from Sayeret Matkal.

Israeli elite SF unit – Sayeret Matkal – went on a complex hostages-rescue operation and managed to save 80 of the passengers, with only one soldier lost, the commander, lt. colonel Yonatan Netanyahu, the elder brother of Benjamin Netanyahu.

* Colonel Yonatan Netanyahu, a war hero of Sayeret Matkal, killed in Operation Entebbe

* Seren ( captain ) Benjamin ( Bibi ) Netanyahu, ( Sayeret Matkal ) commando officer, current prime minister.

Sayeret Matkal (, General Staff Reconnaissance Unit ) is a special forces unit of the Israel Defense Forces ( IDF ), which is subordinated to the intelligence directorate Aman.

First and foremost a field intelligence-gathering unit, conducting deep reconnaissance behind enemy lines to obtain strategic intelligence, Sayeret Matkal is also tasked with counter-terrorism and hostage rescue beyond Israel's borders.

Originally part of Aman's Unit 157, Sayeret Matkal began to operate independently a year later as the General Staff's special operations force, modeled after the British Special Air Service.

Established a year after the formation of Israel's first helicopter squadron, the close co-operation between the two units allowed Sayeret Matkal to deploy longer and deeper inside Arab territory than its predecessor.

Arnan's vision for Sayeret Matkal ( of which he was the first commander ) was of a unit that would carry out strategic intelligence-gathering and other operations ; as such it would receive its missions only from the General Staff.

The debacle led to the creation of the Yamam to deal with domestic counter-terrorism / hostage-rescue missions, while Sayeret Matkal would focus on foreign counter-terrorism / hostage-rescue.

A commando team from the Israeli Army's elite Sayeret Matkal special forces unit was to be inserted into Iraq from Jordan, where they would travel to the funeral near Tikrit and kill Saddam with TV-guided " Midras " missiles.

A reserve company of Sayeret Matkal was also designated specifically for cooperation with the Israeli Air Force, shown by the war to be lacking.

Although Sayeret Matkal has its own insignia, it is also one of the few units in the IDF whose soldiers are not allowed to wear it in public due to its classified nature.

There is a widely held misconception that former Israeli Major General and former Prime Minister Ariel Sharon also served in Sayeret Matkal, though as a Major Sharon had founded the IDF's first special-forces unit ( Unit 101 ) in 1953.

By the time the 1960s came, the term was used only within certain units who needed more than basic training in Krav Maga such as Unit 216, Sayeret Matkal ( Ariel Sharon also served in this unit ).

He was also the namesake of and Godfather to Benzion's elder son, Lieutenant-Colonel Yonatan " Yoni " Netanyahu, who was the commander of the elite Israeli army commando unit Sayeret Matkal.

Three soldiers, including former Sayeret Matkal commander Uzi Yairi, were also killed.

Hostage rescue or extraction by commando troops such as the British Special Boat Service, British Special Air Service, US Delta Force, U. S. Navy SEALs, NSG, Para Commandos, MARCOS and Sayeret Matkal may involve even more esoteric adaptations or variations, depending on specialized environments, weapons technology, political considerations or a mixture of friendly, unfriendly or civilian personnel.

Sayeret Matkal officers then split into two camps: those who believed that the unit should be kept in reserve and not be lightly sent to missions where it could endure heavy casualties, and those that wanted to go into action, even if that meant missions with little planning and more akin to a commando force than to the strategic-oriented Sayeret Matkal.

After the war, Sayeret Matkal began developing plans for wartime in advance, so that when war came, the unit could go into action immediately, without waiting for the General Staff's orders and missions.

Although a top-secret unit, Sayeret Matkal had tremendous influence on the IDF.

Despite being a clandestine and relatively small army unit, former Sayeret Matkal veterans have a disproportionate influence on the army and public service.

In the late 1960s, Ze ' evi formed the elite Sayeret Kharuv, an anti-terror battalion, at the time when IDF Chief of Staff Haim Bar-Lev had begun to focus manpower and budget on armoured tank units, resulting in huge cutbacks in infantry forces.

* Sayeret Haruv-former IDF Central Command special forces unit.

* Sayeret Shaked-former IDF Southern Command special forces unit.

During the 1990s, this selection practice was picked up by other IDF special forces ( Sayeret ).

While most of the orienteering training is done in pairs for safety reasons, as in every other unit in the IDF, Sayeret Matkal is one of the handful of IDF units which conducts long-range solo navigation exercises.

Sayeret Matkal operatives have gone on to achieve high positions in Israel's military and political echelons, and several have become IDF Generals and members of the Knesset.

* On March 3, 2000, the Yamam captured an armed group hidden in the Israeli – Arab town of Tayibe with the aid of Sayeret Duvdevan and an IDF Caterpillar D9 bulldozer.

He served for four years in the Israel Defense Forces as an officer in Sayeret Matkal, one of the more notable IDF special forces units.

Following the Yom Kippur War in 1973, where Ya ' alon served as a reservist, he rejoined the IDF and served in the Paratroopers Brigades and Sayeret Matkal.

Sayeret Yahalom is a classified unit and almost none of its special activities are exposed to the public. Public accounts of its activities usually just credit a " combat engineering force "; a term that can equally describe regular Engineering sappers, IDF Caterpillar D9 operators and infantry engineering companies.

In the IDF, the demolition experts are united in Sayeret Yael of Yahalom ( Sayeret is the Israeli name for SF elite unit ) and therefore gain high infantry training as well.

Despite being one of the better sniper rifles available to IDF, only a small number are used, with the undercover unit Sayeret Duvdevan using most of them.