For many, Unit 730 is considered the best security unit in the world, one whose graduates are sought after for assignments everywhere from leaders of African countries who fear assassination to the world’s wealthiest people, billionaires…. Dedi Hanoch, who was former Prime Minister Ehud Barak’s close personal security escort, said that “in personal security, the first bullet fired can kill or injure the security guard, so we cannot afford to respond after the first bullet” , so the unit is primarily concerned with prevention. After this fateful partnership in which the escort is responsible for a person’s life and is willing to sacrifice his own for their sake, a special connection is created between the two. “Sometimes, when I’m face-to-face with the person I’m escorting, conversations and intimacy come,” Hanoch described. Uri Blitzbau, a security guard in Israel and abroad, added that “we constantly see and hear everything, and it accompanies you to the grave. It’s in the blood of the blood of this profession,” referring to the code of silence sanctified by the special unit.
