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Unit 101

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Commando Unit 101 (Hebrew: יחידה 101) was a sayeret (commando) unit of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), founded and commanded by Ariel Sharon on orders from Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion in August 1953. They were armed with non-standard weapons and tasked with carrying out retribution operations across the state's borders—in particular, establishing small unit maneuvers, activation and insertion tactics. Members of the unit were recruited only from agricultural kibbutzim and moshavim. Membership in the unit was by invitation only, and any new member had to be voted on by all existing members before they were accepted. The unit was merged into the 890th Paratroop Battalion during January 1954, on orders of General Moshe Dayan, Chief of Staff, because he wanted their experience and spirit to be spread among all infantry units of IDF starting with the paratroopers. They are considered to have had a significant influence on the development of subsequent Israeli infantry-oriented units.

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Unit 101 was the Israeli commando unit, founded and commanded by Ariel Sharon, that carried out the 1953 raid on the village of Qibya in which dozens of unarmed residents were killed. The 2010 opening paragraph named that raid the Qibya massacre. Today the opening describes the unit's work only as retribution operations, and massacre appears nowhere in it, though the word survives 4 times in the body. A reader today learns the unit conducted retribution operations across the border, not that the raid it is remembered for is called a massacre.
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