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Briefly, in its infancy it was called Unit 262 . Then Unit 269 took over as its name. Sayeret Matkal’s initial designations were Unit 262 and Unit 269. The elite commando unit was founded in 1957 by Avraham Arnan and during its earliest, highly classified years was simply referred to in IDF documents by these numerical codes or broadly as "The Unit".If you'd like to learn more about the unit, let me know if you are interested in:Their famous historical operations (like Operation Entebbe)The selection process and trainingHow they compare to other elite special forces.
The Sayeret Matkal (Hebrew: סיירת מטכ״ל ) (formerly Unit 269 or Unit 262) (English: General Staff Reconnaissance Unit) is an elite...Sayeret Matkal (General Staff Reconnaissance Unit) is the ...Sayeret Matkal (General Staff Reconnaissance Unit) is the prime special forces unit of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) Israeli Special Forces Units - Sayeret Matkal is the Israeli equivalent of 1st SFOD-D (Delta Force) of the United States and it is also compared to the British S.A.S. most elite units. They also copied the British style of using deceptive, random numerical unit designations to mask their elite special forces on official paperwork and rosters. For decades, if the unit was referenced in top-secret military files, it was strictly coded as Unit 269.