During my visit, he wore a clingy gray T-shirt and jeans, with no kippah; he has a buzz cut, which evokes his days in an élite special-forces unit called Sayeret Matkal. Netanyahu also served in ...

He is also, like Netanyahu, a veteran of the IDF’s elite commando unit Sayeret Matkal. However, according to the Israel Hayom ...

As a member of Sayeret Matkal, an elite special-operations unit, Netanyahu helped rescue a hijacked jet plane at the Tel Aviv airport in 1972, and he fought in the 1973 Yom Kippur War. But the ...

Standing on the Syrian side of Mount Hermon today, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says that Israel ... 53 years ago with my soldiers on a Sayeret Matkal patrol,” he says.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, standing on the Syrian side ... recalling his military service in the elite Sayeret Matkal unit over five decades ago. “I was here 53 years ago with my ...