Nahshon, a special unit of the Israel Prison Service (IPS), escorts and transfers 150,000 prisoners annually.

The Nahshon Unit, created 33 years ago in February 1973, was at the time called ABM (acronym for Security and Operations). In 1993 ABM was renamed in honor of the Biblical Nahshon ben Aminadav, the first to plunge forward into the Red Sea, leading the people of Israel after him to safety. The security prisoner escort unit – which escorts hundreds of terrorists daily to courtrooms, hospitals and interrogations – was created in July 2003