The Yiftach Brigade (also known as the Yiftah Brigade, the 11th Brigade in the
1948 Arab–Israeli War
The 1948 (or First) Arab–Israeli War was the second and final stage of the 1948 Palestine war. It formally began following the end of the British Mandate for Palestine at midnight on 14 May 1948; the Israeli Declaration of Independence had ...
) was an Israeli
infantry
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brigade. It included two
Palmach
The Palmach (Hebrew: , acronym for , ''Plugot Maḥatz'', "Strike Companies") was the elite fighting force of the Haganah, the underground army of the Yishuv (Jewish community) during the period of the British Mandate for Palestine. The Palmach ...
battalions (the 1st and 7th), and later also the 2nd, which was transferred from the
Negev Brigade.
The Palmach memorial website records 274 of its members being killed whilst in the Yiftach Brigade.
File:Moshe Kelman ii.jpg, Moshe Kelman, commander during Operation Yiftach
File:Mula Cohen.jpg, Mula Cohen, commander during Operation Danny
File:Gideon Eilat.jpg, Gideon Eilat commander during Operation Yoav
Military operations
The Yiftach Brigade participated in the following Israeli military operations:
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Operation Yiftach
Operation Yiftach ( he, מבצע יפתח, ''Mivtza Yiftah'') was a Palmach offensive carried out between 28 April and 23 May 1948. The objectives were to capture Safed and to secure the eastern Galilee before the British Mandate ended on 14 May ...
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Operation Yoram
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Operation Danny
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Operation Yoav
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Metzudat Koach
Memorial
The memorial for the fallen soldiers of the Yiftach Brigade is situated in the northern Negev north of
Rahat, near
Kibbutz
A kibbutz ( he, קִבּוּץ / , lit. "gathering, clustering"; plural: kibbutzim / ) is an intentional community in Israel that was traditionally based on agriculture. The first kibbutz, established in 1909, was Degania. Today, farming h ...
Beit Kama
Beit Kama ( he, בֵּית קָמָה, ''lit.'' House of Standing Grain) is a kibbutz in the northern Negev desert in Israel. Located north of the Bedouin city of Rahat, it falls under the jurisdiction of Bnei Shimon Regional Council. In its pop ...
and Kama Junction on
Road 40.
See also
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List of battles and operations in the 1948 Palestine war
1948 Arab–Israeli War
Brigades of Israel
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