Desert Reconnaissance Battalion

585th Desert Reconnaissance Battalion
Battalion insignia
Active	Late 1980s-present
Country	Israel
Branch	Ground Forces
Type	Infantry
Role	Border patrol
Size	1 Battalion
Part of	143rd "Fire Fox" (Territorial) Division, Southern Command

The Desert Reconnaissance Battalion (DRB) (also known as Unit 585 or the Bedouin Battalion) is a unit of the Israel Defense Forces. It is an ethnic minority unit consisting of volunteers from the Bedouin, Christian, Muslim, Druze and Circassian ethnoreligious groups, while the majority of the IDF and the Israeli population are Jews. The DRB was founded in the late 1980s and since then has largely been deployed on the border with the Gaza Strip on security duties.