Ehud Barak is an Israeli politician, former Prime Minster, and current Minister of Defense, deputy prime minister and leader of Israel's Labor Party. Barak served as the 10th Prime Minister of Israel from 1999 to 2001. After losing the 2001 election, Barak embarked on a business career. On June 12, 2007, he completed a political comeback by winning election to the Labor Party leadership. He was appointed as Israeli Minister of Defence, …

"'"' (born 1948 in Tehran, Iran) is the current Israeli Minister of Transportation and a Deputy Prime Minister, and a former Minister of Defense. Previously he was the 16th Chief of the General Staff of the Israeli Defence Forces, and was the first Israeli of Iranian origin to achieve that post. Mofaz was born in Tehran, although his parents came from Isfahan. Mofaz has had the unique distinction of serving under four different Israeli Prime Ministers, …

Moshe Ya'alon is a Lieutenant General (res.) on July 9, 2002, and served in that position until June 1, 2005, during which time he led the army’s effort to quell the al-Aqsa Intifada launched in September 2000. He is currently a Distinguished Fellow at the Adelson Institute for Strategic Studies at the Shalem Center Institute for International and Middle East Studies. Ya'alon's public pronouncements have been controversial.

Avraham "Avi" Dichter (born 4 December 1952) is an Israeli politician, former head of the Shabak, and member of the Knesset. He is number five on Kadima's list and, as of May 2006, Israel's Minister of Internal Security. Dichter was born in Ashkelon and was a member of Hashomer Hatzair. During his military service, he served in Sayeret Matkal, and refused the offer of his unit commander, Ehud Barak, …

Matan Vilnai (born 20 May, 1944) is an Israeli politician and a former Major General in the Israel Defense Forces (IDF). He is currently Deputy Defense Minister.

Danny Yatom also Dani Yatom was the Director of the Mossad from 1996 to 1998. He also served as deputy commander of Sayeret Matkal and Security Advisor to Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak. Currently Yatom is a member of the Knesset for the Labor-Meimad party.

Dr. Iddo Netanyahu (b. 1952) in Jerusalem, Israel, is the youngest out of the three Netanyahu brothers. His older brother Yonatan was killed in a hostage rescue mission Operation Entebbe and is considered a war hero. His other brother, Benjamin, is the former Prime Minister of Israel from 1996-1999. Like his two brothers, he served in Sayeret Matkal, Israel's special forces unit. He works as both a radiologist and a writer.

Shabtai Shavit was the Director General of the Mossad from 1989 to 1996. Shavit first joined the Israel Defense Forces, where he served in the Sayeret Matkal and from 1958 to 1959 he was the Military Governor of the Southern Command. He then joined the Mossad in 1964, where he worked his way up to his appointment as Director. After retiring from the Mossad he spent five years as CEO of Maccabi Health Services Group.

Daniel "Danny" Mark Lewin (May 14, 1970 - September 11 2001) was a mathematician and entrepreneur, best known for co-founding internet company Akamai Technologies. Lewin was born in Denver, Colorado and raised in Jerusalem, where he served for four years in the Israel Defence Forces. He was an officer in Sayeret Matkal, an elite and secretive intelligence unit.

Emanuel Moreno born in France and grew up in Jerusalem, Israel was a Lieutenant Colonel in the elite special forces unit of the Israeli Defence Force Sayeret Matkal. Moreno was killed in Baalbek during the 2006 Israel-Lebanon conflict. Moreno's service details are so secret that the IDF didn't release his photo to the public and he became a symbol of heroism shrouded in secrecy.

Avshalom "Abu" Vilan (born 11 February 1951) is an Israeli politician and economist. He currently represents the Meretz-Yachad party in the Knesset.

Major General Yedidya Ya'ari (born 1947) was the commander of the Israeli Navy. He was succeeded by David Ben Ba'ashat. In July 1969, as a commando in Shayetet 13, he was badly wounded and mistakenly declared dead during Operation Bulmus 6 - the assault on fortified Green Island, Egypt, in the Gulf of Suez (jointly with Sayeret Matkal). After retirning from active army service, Ya'ari worked as an assistant cameraman for three years at Herzliya Studios.

Ulrich K. "Ricky" Wegener was a renowned German police officer and a founding member of the counter-terrorist force GSG 9. The man tasked with creating the tactics and strategies that would be used by Germany's first exclusively counter-terrorist force, Colonel Wegener was the Bundesgrenzschutz (Federal Border Protection, now German Federal Police) liaison officer with the German Interior Minister, Hans-Dietrich Genscher, at the time.

Shaul Mofaz: Minister of Defense Lieutenant-General (res.) Shaul Mofaz, was born in Iran in 1948 and immigrated to Israel in 1957.