Hi,
As engineering corps soldier we need a knife to clear up mine on the ground. We call it a sapper knife, but the real deal was the Kalash knife (which is a short for Kalashnikov knife), or as we call it Saklach (which is a acrynom for Kalashnikov knife).
Aba used to have one (when I asked him where is it, it did not even understand what knife I talking about), what we were really excited about was how the knife and the sheath could connect and create kind of steel scissors.
We did not understand back then, that Israel does not have Kalashnikov rifels, and did not ask ourselves how he got it. In this point you probably think he got the knife from a body of some enemy soldier. But the truth is that in some point IDF bought Kalashnikov knifes for its use, and mark them with a צ. There are many versions of those knifes, produced in the countries of Soviet Union.
(Here you can the list of the versions, as well as here in Hebrew)
The rumor goes that we can install the knifes on our M-16 barrel, if we will take down the flash hider and attach it to the connector we have on the rifle. But I do not think anybody ever tried to install it this way
One of soldiers in the team brought a real folded Kalash knife he got from his father.
Take Care
Gad
A Sapper knife, which is replica of the American Ka-Bar legendary commando knife
An IDF Kalash knife. Closed inside its sheath, the knife and the sheath, and the knife with the sheath put together as steel scissors.
An original folded Russian Kalash knife from Soviet Afghan War. One of the soldiers in the team got it from his father who fought there.
M-16 Barrel, flash holder, and knife connector some suggests you can connect the Kalash knife to