Unit 101
The Unité 101 is the first unit of Special forces of the history of the Israeli army. The purpose of the unit, which existed between the August 28th 1953 and January 1954, was to lead operations of reprisals to the opposition to Palestinian, after a series of raids against the Israeli civilians. It was directed by Ariel Sharon and was placed under the direct orders of the Israeli Prime Minister David Ben Gourion. Even if unit 101 were undeniable successes in the fight against the Palestinian combatants, she did not manage however to prevent the continuation of their Palestinian operations coming from Gaza, of the West Bank and the Lebanon multiply with the row of Major and selected to order the unit 101 which counts according to the sources between 20 and 50 men, coming primarily from the Unité 30 and You zanhanim. Ariel Sharon recruits the best Israeli soldiers then.
The unit, specialized in the quiet infiltration and the night combat, acts primarily on the Green line and in the Gaza Strip. It carries out operations of reprisals against Palestinian, in particular the civilians. The mission aims at the Colonel Mustafa Hafez, the chief of the Egyptian intelligence services in the Gaza Strip (then under domination égyptienne
Shoshana operation
See also: Operation Shoshana
In October of the same year, an Israeli woman and her two children are killed by Arab partisans who shelters a position of the Arab Legion. Unit 101 and of the Palestinian civil parachutists (as a majority of the women and the children) were killed in the opération
The attack on Kibiah is largely condemned, but Moshe Dayan, then chief of the operations to the Israeli staff, covers Ariel Sharon because of the effectiveness which the unit knows in addition