02Mar
General Staff Reconnaissance unit (Sayeret Matkal)
This unit is mainly tasked with intelligence data collection deep behind enemy lines, but this is only official information.
(more…)This unit is mainly tasked with intelligence data collection deep behind enemy lines, but this is only official information.
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02Mar
Navy Commander (Chovel)
«Chovel» is a TZAHAL elite officer who has followed special training to command ships and marines of the Israeli Navy. Sea captains have to deal not only with marines but also with technologically-complicated systems of the ship. «Hovlim» receive long training which culminates in a first academic degree (Bachelor).
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02Mar
Shaldag
An elite anti-terrorist unit assigned to the Air Force. One of the tasks of the unit is “Target illumination” which assists the high precision systems of Air Force aircrafts. They also record high priority targets behind enemy lines being hit and eliminated.
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02Mar
Canine handlers (Oketz)
The soldiers of this unit perform their duty with specially trained dogs.
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02Mar
Divers (Snapir)
The soldiers of this unit accomplish different tasks related to diving underwater, for example, the maintaining of vessels’ underwater parts, as well as defending the Israeli maritime boundaries.
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02Mar
Duvdevan
A special counter-terrorist unit with the main task to arrest and eliminate terrorists on Judean and Samarian territory. It also includes a unit which undertakes undercover operations.
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02Mar
Submarines (Tzolelot)
Submarines are known to be the most expensive and secret weapons of the country, therefore the requirements of soldiers who perform this duty are extremely demanding. Submariners not only patrol and protect the country’s borders but also collect intelligence findings and accomplish hidden deployment of the TZAHAL special units.
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02Mar
Pilot (Tayas)
Pilots are the air force elite of TZAHAL, these are either combat aircraft pilots, cargo aircraft pilots or helicopter pilots.
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02Mar
Unit 669
«669» is an elite unit aimed at the rescue of downed pilots, the evacuation of soldiers from the front-line, and air medical evacuation from the battlefield. It also undertakes civilian evacuations as a routine activity (especially seamen, tourists lost in a desert, and car accident victims from remote areas).
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Israel Ministry of Defense
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