Yahalom (Hebrew language: יהל"ם - יחידה הנדסית למשימות מיוחדות) is a Sayeret (special operations forces) unit of the Israeli Combat Engineering Corps of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF). The name "Yahalom" (Diamond in Hebrew) is an abbreviation of "Special Operations Engineering Unit". Organization and activities Role Yahalom specializes in special engineering missions that include: Accurate demolition through pinpoint planting of explosives. CBRNE consequence management. Commando style raid operations. Counterinsurgency and counterterrorism. Defusing and disposal of bombs, land mines, and unexploded ordnance. Developing advanced methods and tools for demolition and EOD. Maritime sabotage and obstacles breaching. Military special operations against guerrilla warfare. Searching and destroying smuggling tunnels. Searching, extracting, and destroying CBRN weapons and explosives. Tactical emergency medical service and medevac when who injured from CBRN weapons, defusing and disposal of bombs, and high-yield explosives incident. Teaching and training engineering corps soldiers and other special units in demolition and EOD. General activities 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 sappers, IDF Caterpillar D9 operators and infantry engineering companies. Jane's Defence Weekly has claimed that Yahalom are working closely with Sayeret Matkal and Shayetet 13, 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. Sub-units Yael ("Ibex") - a commando demolition unit that conducts long range sabotage, combat engineering, counter terror, and maritime engineering missions. The YAEL team has destroyed military and civilian infrastructure that have been identified as hiding weapons caches, tunnels used to smuggle weapons, and firing positions. SAP ("EOD Unit") - an EOD unit that removes land mines and missile warheads, handles nuclear, biological and chemical (NBC) threats, performs bomb disposal, and accompanies special operations units on missions where their units are at risk of encountering explosive booby traps. YACHSAP is constantly engaged in defusing large IEDs that Hezbollah has set along the Israel-Lebanon border and bombs Palestinians have planted in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. They often use armored bulldozers when executing those missions. SAP is initials for Bomb disposal. Samur ("Weasel") - a commando unit whose expertise is finding and destroying and if needed fighting in smuggling tunnels and