35th Paratroopers Brigade (Israel)

35th "Paratroopers" Brigade
Paratroopers Brigade Insignia
Active	1955 – present
Country	Israel
Branch	Israeli Ground Forces
Type	Paratrooper
Role	Airborne infantry Special reconnaissance
Size	4 Battalions
Part of	98th Paratroopers Division (Reserve), Infantry Corps
Motto(s)	!אחרי לצנחנים (After me, to the paratroopers!)
Colors	Maroon beret, Red & White Flag
March	"Kol Hazman Tzanchan" (Always a paratrooper)
Mascot(s)	Winged Snake (Shfifon)
Engagements	Suez War (Mitla Pass) Six-Day War War of Attrition Operation Rhodes Operation Entebbe Second Intifada Second Lebanon War Operation Cast Lead Operation Brother's Keeper Operation Protective Edge 2023 Israel–Hamas war
Commanders
Current commander	Colonel Ami Bitton
Notable commanders	Ariel Sharon, Rafael Eitan, Moshe Ya'alon, Aviv Kohavi, Herzi Halevi
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The 35th "Paratroopers" Brigade (Hebrew: חֲטִיבַת הַצַּנְחָנִים, Hativat HaTzanhanim) is an Israeli military airborne infantry brigade. It forms a major part of the Israeli Ground Forces' Infantry Corps, and has a history of carrying out special operations from the 1950s onwards. Soldiers of the brigade wear maroon berets with the Infantry Corps pin and russet boots.

As part of an IDF tradition unique to the brigade, its soldiers wear a tunic and belt over their shirts. The IDF maintains four reserve paratrooper brigades, currently the 55th, 226th, 551st [he] and 646th, at all times, whose enlisted personnel consist of reservists that have already completed their compulsory military service in the 35th Brigade.