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Yahalom Combat Engineer

לוחם יהל"ם

Role facts

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Minimum profile: 8282 and above
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What you would be doing

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Yahalom is a special-missions engineering unit inside the Engineering Corps, with four companies each handling a different specialty: Samur (tunnels and hideouts), the bomb-disposal company, Yael (special engineering missions, engineering intelligence and demolitions), and Midron Mushlag (breaching buildings with engineering means).

What it takes to get in

Profile 82 and above and Dapar 50 and above. Placement runs through a pre-military assessment on the recon-unit model — a candidate interview week for those who passed the assessment but didn't make it through the pilot, General Staff, Shayetet, or naval-officer/submarine gibush — or through selection after the Engineering Corps gibush.

Training

Rifleman tironut 05 (4 months), then advanced training completing rifleman level 06 (4 months).

Basic training 05: what it means — in the guide

Rifleman 06: what it means — in the guide

Where you serve

In the corps' various engineering battalions.

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