IDF pararescue teams, known as Unit 669, have extracted more than sixty injured soldiers from the war zone in Gaza since the start of the ground invasion. The rescues included advanced life-saving ...

Bar Reuven was in the subway in Brooklyn when he saw someone collapse on the platform. The 29-year-old Israeli moved instantly toward the trouble. He knelt beside the young woman, made sure she could ...

Sometimes, Shai Shani had to crawl through dark and cold caves for hours. Other times, he jumped into a tumultuous ocean in the middle of a thunderstorm. This was not done to serve an adrenaline ...

Unit 669 is the Israel Defense Israel Defense Forces heliborne Combat Search & Rescue extraction unit. Originally started to extract downed pilots, its responsibilities have widened to include ...

Unit 669 is an elite unit which has for specialization the rescue of both soldiers and civilians under any condition or in any location. IAF evacuates soldiers from the Gaza Strip. (Credit: IDF ...

Women will be allowed to serve in an elite helicopter-borne search and rescue unit for the first time, the Israel Defense Forces announced Friday, amid an appeal to the country’s top court over the ...

Israel’s army on Tuesday announced that its first recruitment of female soldiers joined the 669 search-and-rescue unit, and that selection for the Yahalom engineering unit would take place in April ...

Israel’s elite Search and Rescue Unit, codenamed 669, is sharing its vast professional knowledge with partners around the world, and especially with Jewish communities, in an effort to improve ...