Sayeret Matkal: The Greatest Operations of Israel’s Elite Commandos
Avner Shur and Aviram Halevi (Skyhorse Publishing, 2023), 247 pages, photos.
The stories of Israeli spies and special operations have been told so many times in books (Rise and Kill First; Mossad: The Greatest Missions of the Israeli Secret Service) and on film (Raid on Entebbe and Munich) that they often seem like the stuff of legend. A new book by
two veterans of Sayeret Matkal—the commando force behind the hostage rescue mission at Entebbe and many
other famous operations—tells the stories from a new and
sometimes touching perspective. It shows the exhilaration, the agony, the grief, and sometimes the boredom of participating in some of the most famous Israeli commando operations.
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