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Israel’s Shayetet 13 is considered one of the best trained Special Operations units in the world, its activities are shrouded in secrecy.

Midhat Saleh is believed to have been working for Iran and plotting terrorist activities. But there may be more to the killing than meets the eye.

The regional balance allows Iran to move its pieces against the Golan Heights. Israel is determined to stop that and aims to repopulate the area.

“Remember that name… Fakhrizadeh” former Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu had said. Two years later, the scientist would be killed by a robotic gun.

“This was an attack meant to send a message. Clearly, we could do much more, and we hope we won’t arrive at that,” the Israeli Defense Minister said.

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So many things could go wrong with Operation Thunderbolt. Yet, it was a success — but the mind behind it had to pay the ultimate prize.

On July 4, 1976, while the United States was celebrating its bicentennial, a small group of Israeli Special Operations troops was carrying out one of the most brilliant hostage rescue operations in history.  Lieutenant Colonel Yonatan “Yoni” Netanyahu — the brother of the incumbent Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu — was the Commander of the […]

It was at that very moment that Nasser decided to seize the Suez Canal and expel the last remnants of Western imperialism from his country.

“It’s one of the most difficult and complicated situations that I’ve ever seen,” Colonel Vach of the Israeli team said to the press. 

The Suez Crisis illustrated the supremacy of the U.S. and drove home to the British and French that their days had passed.

Just days after Prime Minister Bennett assumed power in Israel a slew of incendiary balloons led to renewed Israeli strikes against Gaza.