JERUSALEM – 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 minister of ...

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 ...

Sayeret Matkal Commander, Major Tal Cohen HY"D, or TalCo as he was affectionately called by his men, liked to say that there are four Independence Days, not just one, that take place during the spring ...

When Zohar, Avner and Moshe sent their letter to Prime Minister Ariel Sharon several weeks ago, it triggered an uproar in Israel. With 10 other commandos of the army’s most elite unit, the men refused ...

The original mission of Sayeret Matkal was field intelligence-gathering in the enemy’s rear. While that still remains their primary objective, they have picked up few more assignments since their ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

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 ...

THE MAN WHO was likely the first killed in the 9/11 attacks was a veteran Israeli commando and dot-com millionaire who died fighting to stop ringleader Mohamed Atta from taking over his plane.