Mista’arvim carry out sometimes violent arrests but demonstrators are increasingly effective at countering them Last May, as war in Gaza raged and clashes over Palestinian access to Jerusalem ...

Public Security Minister Gilad Erdan (Likud) visited a base of the Yamas, a secretive special forces unit within the Border Police that excels at infiltrating terror ...

In the hit Israeli TV series “Fauda,” Doron is a retired commander of the Mista’arvim, an elite undercover unit whose operatives pose as Arabs to tackle covert military missions in Gaza and on the ...

TEL AVIV—The Israeli commandos who rescued four hostages in Gaza drove a pair of battered white trucks—one displaying a soap advertisement, the other bearing a mattress and furniture on the roof. They ...

The elite mista'arvim unit of Duvdevan special ops undercover forces have been very active in recent days, infiltrating and then breaking up violent riots by disguising themselves as Arabs. But now ...

“Fauda” tells the story of an elite special ops unit within the Israeli army called “mista’arvim,” undercover commandos carrying out secret missions within Palestinian territories. The hit Netflix ...