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Sayeret Matkal [2] (Hebrew: סיירת מטכ״ל) (formerly Unit 269 or Unit 262) (English: General Staff Reconnaissance Unit), [3] is the special reconnaissance unit (sayeret) of Israel's General Staff (matkal). It is considered one of the premier special forces units of Israel. [4]
Emmanuel Yehuda Moreno (Hebrew: עמנואל יהודה מורנו) (June 17, 1971 – August 19, 2006), was an Israeli Lieutenant Colonel in the Israel Defense Forces' most elite unit, Sayeret Matkal (also known as the General Staff Reconnaissance Unit, or Unit 269), who died in combat at the end of the Second Lebanon War.
General Staff Reconnaissance Unit 269 – Sayeret Matkal – the IDF's principal Sayeret unit, similar to the British Special Air Service and the US Army's Delta Force, is used mainly to obtain strategic intelligence behind enemy lines and to perform hostage-rescue missions on foreign soil.
General Staff Reconnaissance Unit 269 – Sayeret Matkal; Israeli Army. 89th "Oz" Brigade. Unit 212 – Maglan [110] Unit 217 – Duvdevan; Unit 621 – Egoz; Israeli Navy. 13th Flotilla – Shayetet 13; Israeli Air and Space Force. 7th Special Air Forces Wing Unit 5101 – Shaldag (Special Air-Ground Designating Team) [111]
The buildings were located across the road from the bustling airport on land which became the home of a much larger unit, the 178th Fighter Group. The 605th was renamed the 269th Communications Squadron Operations, effective 1 July 1952.
Unit 269 - Sayeret Matkal - General Staff Reconnaissance Unit [344] Parachute School [345] Air Force. 7th Wing [346] Unit 5101 - Shaldag Unit "Kingfisher" [347] Search and Rescue Flight 669 [348] Navy. Shayetet 13 (Flotilla 13) [349]
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The unit was created as a corps in April 2000, under Amnon Sufrin. In late 2008, the GOC Army Headquarters decided to rename it to the "Combat Intelligence Collection Corps" from "Field Intelligence Corps", to emphasize its combat nature and to dissociate itself from the military intelligence directorate to which it was previously ...