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686: 209: 191: 701:"), where commanders identify the best trainees and select them for "Gibbush" (a grueling five-day test of physical and mental condition in intensive field trials). The best graduates of Gibbush are invited to join the unit and received advance training, which takes another year. Because the training takes a total of 1.4 years, the volunteers must agree to serve an extra year (in addition to the mandatory three year service in the IDF). The training includes training in engineering, 633: 36: 172: 147: 407:, by providing them with demolition, explosive and sabotage skills. Most of the equipment that Yahalom has developed for its missions is classified. Yahalom maintains secrecy to make it more difficult for enemies to develop countermeasures. 386:
Yahalom is a classified unit and almost none of its special activities are exposed to the public. Public accounts of its activities usually just credit a "combat engineering force"; a term that can equally describe regular Engineering
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bases and tasked with removal of air ordnance such as bombs, missiles, rockets, etc. It is also tasked with safe removal of unexploded enemy ordnance inside the base perimeter. SAPIR is initials for SAP (Bomb disposal) and Avir
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Midron Mushlag ("Snowy Slope") - a unit whose expertise is penetrating buildings using hot breaching techniques using explosives charges, or cold breaching techniques using hydraulic expanders, crow bars and lock
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and the remote-controlled Raam HaShachar ("Morning thunder") version of the D9 (which were found extremely useful for special operation and CT duties), an armored
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experts team into Yahalom to form the Samur platoon.. Samur is also initials for Slikim (Caches) and Minharot (Caves or Tunnels)
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when injured by CBRN weapons, and after incidents associated with defusing and disposing of bombs or high-yield explosives
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charges, and advanced EOD vehicles are standard equipment for all engineering units handling explosives. The
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inserted into tunnels, obviating the need for human operators to risk their lives. EOD robots for handling
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unit, trained to respond to threats from weapons of mass destruction, mostly focused on chemical weaponry.
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Teaching and training engineering corps soldiers and other special units in demolition and EOD
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and hidden weapon caches. The unit dates back to 2004 when the IDF merged the
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Soldiers from Yahalom at the end of a concluding military exercise.
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SAPIR ("Sapphire") - Aerial ordnance EOD Unit, stationed at major
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Yahalom specializes in special engineering missions that include:
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when executing those missions. SAP is initials for Bomb disposal.
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Searching, extracting, and destroying CBRN weapons and explosives
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experts use similar equipment. Yahalom also uses the up-armored
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In order to be accepted into the unit one must enlist with the
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Special combat engineering unit of the Israel Defense Forces
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Accurate demolition through pinpoint planting of explosives
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Developing advanced methods and tools for demolition and
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Combat Engineering Unit for Special Operations - Yahalom
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Diamonds in the Rough: Finding Weapons Nobody Else Can
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Diamonds in the Rough: Finding Weapons Nobody Else Can
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disposal unit, composed of reserve service personnel.
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Military special operations against guerrilla warfare
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Israel
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Sayeret
Israeli Combat Engineering Corps
Camp Emmanuel
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Israeli Combat Engineering Corps
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CBRNE
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