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Commando Brigade. Each Egoz recruit goes through extensive background checks and interviews by Israeli intelligence to determine whether or not they should be screened out of the second phase of training. Those
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Between 2022 and 2023 the unit had two separate friendly fire incidents, reportedly involving mistaken identity. In
January 2022, during a search for thieves of night vision equipment in the Jordan Valley, a member of the unit went by himself on an unauthorized patrol after lights out, during which
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Founded as a special forces counter-guerrilla unit in 1995 in order to counter
Hezbollah operations in Southern Lebanon, Egoz was initially made up of one platoon from the Paratrooper's 5135th Reconnaissance Battalion. The unit's first commander was Erez Zuckerman, who spent much of his military
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of warfare and assaults. Egoz is one of a few units in the IDF that trains its recruits in long-range solo navigations. In addition to other highly classified unit-specific courses, every Egoz soldier completes the IDF commanders' course.
314:) Egoz. Following a friendly-fire incident, Sayeret Egoz was disbanded, and then restored in 1964, when it continued to operate under the Northern Command. In 1974 it was disbanded once more due to manpower shortages following the
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