INS ''Rahav'' is an Israeli Dolphin 2-class

submarine A submarine (or sub) is a watercraft capable of independent operation underwater. It differs from a submersible, which has more limited underwater capability. The term is also sometimes used historically or colloquially to refer to remotely op ...

. The name is

Hebrew Hebrew (; ; ) is a Northwest Semitic language of the Afroasiatic language family. Historically, it is one of the spoken languages of the Israelites and their longest-surviving descendants, the Jews and Samaritans. It was largely preserved ...

for " Rahab." The submarine was built in

Kiel Kiel () is the capital and most populous city in the northern Germany, German state of Schleswig-Holstein, with a population of 246,243 (2021). Kiel lies approximately north of Hamburg. Due to its geographic location in the southeast of the J ...

, Germany, and delivered to the Israeli port city

Haifa Haifa ( he, חֵיפָה ' ; ar, حَيْفَا ') is the third-largest city in Israel—after Jerusalem and Tel Aviv—with a population of in . The city of Haifa forms part of the Haifa metropolitan area, the third-most populous metropol ...

12 January 2016, where entered service the next day. Name is from the Bible "Was it not you who cut Rahab to pieces, who pierced that monster through?" (isaiah 51)

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Israeli submarine Dolphin
* FAS
Israel: Submarines

Der Spiegel, 5 June 2012 Attack submarines 2013 ships Ships built in Kiel Dolphin-class submarines {{Israel-mil-stub