This week on SpyCast, Andrew was joined by Aviram Halevi, former Deputy Commander-in-Chief of Sayeret Matkal, Israel’s top-secret elite commando unit. Aviram served over two decades in various branches of Israeli intelligence, and recently co-wrote the book Sayeret Matkal: The Greatest Operations of Israel's Elite Commandos. Andrew and Aviram discuss the origins and history of the unit, including the stories of some of Sayeret Matkal’s most notable operations.

This episode is third in our 5-part series on Israeli Intelligence. We encourage listeners to begin the series with a crash course in Israeli intelligence with Erez David Maisel, the check out our episodes with Uzi Arad, former National Security Advisor to Benjamin Netanyahu, and Uri Bar-Joseph, scholar and expert on the intelligence failure of the Yom Kippur War.

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Sayeret Matkal’s motto is “Who Dares Wins” – A motto first used by Britain’s Special Air Service during World War II. Since then, 11 other elite special forces units have also adopted the saying, including units from France, Belgium, Australia, New Zealand, Tunisia, Rhodesia, Greece, Cyrus, Latvia, Oman, and India.

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