Sorry for the thread necromancy, but since I'm an Israeli, I could definitely help with this project.
For starters, I'd use Sayeret Matkal rather than Golani Brigade. After all, they were, and still are, a major anti-terrorist and deep-recon special force belonging to the IDF Military Intelligence. Golani are regular infantry, though they have also have a Sayeret (spec-force unit) of their own. Oh, and Entebbe was in 1976. Shayetet 13 (naval special forces) or even Tzanchanim (paratroopers) could also be good backgrounds.
Both Six Day war and Yom Kippur War should be backgrounds, though most younger soldiers who fought in the former have also fought, at least as reserve personnel, in the latter.
A few Israeli first names:
Aharon
Alon
Amos
Arie
Ariel
Assa
Assaf
Aviel
Avigdor
Avner
Avraham
Baruch
Binyamin
Dani
David
Efrayim
Ehud
Eitan
Eliyahu
Gadi
Hannanel
Hannanya
Hayim
Idan
Menachem
Menashe
Mordechai
Moshe
Natan
Pinhas
Refael
Roi
Shaul
Shlomo
Shmuel
Yaakov
Yehoram
Yigal
Yisrael
Yonatan
Yossef
Zalman
Zvi
A few Isreali last names:
Aharon
Ashkenazi
Barak
Bar-Zohar
Bar-Yochai
Carmel
Cohen
Cogen
Dayan
Eitan
Gilad
Golan
Goldschmit
Goldstein
Greenberg
Gur
Hudeda
Joel
Landau
Levi
Laskov
Maoz
Maor
Menashe
Moscowitz
Perri
Sharon
Shimoni
Shapira
Simhoni
Stein
Tavor
Tzanaani
Tzanchani
Tzarfati
Yagoda
Hope this helps!