What is "sayeret"

Usage examples of "sayeret".

It was such an open display of personal concern that Falah could hardly decline the position---even though he knew that Vilnai's real motive was to keep his dischargee in good physical condition and close to the Sayeret Ha'Druzim's regional base at Tel Nef.

Yoni Netanyahu had served with him in Sayeret Matkhal years ago, then had left the army to study at Harvard.

The rough male voices, the firelit young faces, the fragrance of Golan herbage, the myriad stars one never saw over Los Angeles, or for that matter over Tel Aviv, the heat of the bonfire on his face, his son beside him in uniform, a hard-bodied recruit of Sayeret Matkhal: all this rekindled in Don Kishote's spirit a spark dimmed by time and circumstance - love for Zahal, love for the Jewish people, love for the freckle on the globe called Israel.

Last he knew the Sayeret Matkhal was out on a supersecret mission, which probably meant in enemy territory, and release from such an exercise was unthinkable.

If you're serious, and if it's possible to get there, it's a task for Sayeret Matkhal, a replay of the Sabena airplane rescue.

In this way one impractical scheme after another was being eliminated, and a landing by Sayeret Matkhal in Hercules transports was emerging as the only conceivable option.

In the first plane would ride the Sayeret Matkhal fighters (therefore maybe Aryeh!

If the Sayeret Matkhal rehearsal comes off nearly as smoothly - well, I'll have something interesting to say to the Prime Minister.

Aryeh was trying in vain, with all his Sayeret Matkhal know-how in electronics, to make it work.

After serving seven long and difficult years in the Sayeret Ha'Druzim, Israel's Druze Reconnaissance unit, Falah had been ready for a change.

His work with the Sayeret Ha'Druzim had been so intensive, not to mention so damned hot, he needed the break.

It was so quiet that on most nights, he and the owner of a local bar, a former Sayeret Ha'Druzim gunner team commander, were able to spend a half hour trading gossip.

After acknowledging a superior, the soldiers of the Sayeret Ha'Druzim responded with silent attention.

But they had a saying in the Sayeret Ha'Druzim: Sign for a tour, sign for a lifetime.

It wasn't until after the 1967 Six-Day War, when Unit 300 was a key to turning back King Hussein's Royal Jordanian Army on the West Bank, that the IDF and the Unit 300 leader Mohammed Mullah formed an elite Druze reconnaissance splinter group, known as Sayeret Ha'Druzim.