Yahalom is usually translated by the Septuagint as an " onyx ", but sometimes as " beryl " or as " jasper "; onyx only started being mined after the Septuagint was written, so the Septuagint's term " onyx " probably does not mean onyx – onyx is originally an Assyrian word meaning ring, and so could refer to anything used for making rings.

Two Israeli EOD teams gained high reputation for leading the efforts in that area: the Army's Israeli Engineering Corps ' Sayeret Yahalom and the Israeli Border Guard Gaza-area EOD team.

The ICEC has a special unit, called Yahalom ( in Hebrew it means " Diamond " but also abbreviation of " Engineering Unit for Special Operations ") which handles EOD, commando, demolition and sabotage, engineering recon, advance robotics, tunnel warfare, maritime breaching, counter-NBC, and other classified tasks.

Most of the equipment that Yahalom has developed for its missions is classified.

* Recent reports indicate that Yahalom has acquired remote-controlled robots that it can insert into tunnels, obviating the need for human operators to risk their lives.

Yahalom also uses the up-armored IDF Caterpillar D9 bulldozer and the remote-controlled " Raam HaShachar " version of the D9 ( which were found extremely useful for special operation and CT duties ), an armored Excavator with drills, the IDF Puma CEV, and Nakpuma, a Nakpadon APC modified to Yahalom's requirements.

In the IDF, the demolition experts are united in Sayeret Yael of Yahalom ( Sayeret is the Israeli name for SF elite unit ) and therefore gain high infantry training as well.

According to Rebbenu Bachya, the word Yahalom in the verse Exodus 28: 18 means " pearl " and was the stone on the Hoshen representing the tribe of Zebulun.

Yahalom is similar to a Hebrew word meaning hit hard, so some people think that it means diamond.

# The Coalition ( Orlev, Yahalom, Finkelstein )-had voted to stay in the coalition, but vowed to quit when a Jewish settlement dismantled.

Yahalom ( Hebrew language: יהל " ם-יחידה הנדסית למשימות מיוחדות ) is a special elite combat engineering unit of the Israeli Engineering Corps of the Israel Defense Forces.

Sayeret 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 Sayeret Yahalom are working closely with Sayeret Matkal and Shayetet 13, by providing them with demolition, explosive and sabotage skills.

The unit dates back to 2004 when the IDF merged the Southern Command Philadelphi Route Smuggling tunnel experts team into Yahalom to form the SAMOOR platoon.

Soldiers from Yahalom at the end of a concluding military exercise.

In the IDF, they are a part of the elite Engineering unit Yahalom.

Yahalom bomb disposal experts and IDF Caterpillar D9 bulldozers cleared most of Hizbullah's IEDs.

* Yahalom ( in the masoretic text ) / Onychion ( in the Septuagint )-in some other places the Septuagint instead has Beryllios where the masoretic reads Yahalom.

The word Yahalom appears to be connected with the Hebrew meaning strike hard, and possibly with the word hallamish meaning flint ; hallamish is connected to the Assyrian word elmeshu, referring to a precious stone which was hard, and possibly white, or at least with an insignificant colour, and from which whole rings were sometimes made.

A few scholars have suggested that Yahalom may refer to diamonds, owing to their hardness, though the skill of cutting diamonds had not been discovered before the classical era.

Important scholars of piyyut today include Shulamit Elizur and Joseph Yahalom, both at Hebrew University.

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