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* Counter-Tunnels experts: established in 2003 by the late Captain Aviv Hakani, these Combat Engineering Corps soldiers are expert in finding smuggling tunnels and weapon caches, and demolishing them.

They operated in Rafah during the al-Aqsa Intifada and received recommendation of honor for their activity.

After 2004 APC incident the Rafah tunnel team was united with the Combat Engineering Corps elite unit Yahalom and was renamed Sayeret Samur (" Samur " means " Weasel " in Hebrew ).