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	The Golani Brigade
		The Golani brigade was deployed to face this threat, although it had severely depleted ranks and was short of arms.
		The Golani brigade took part along with the Seventh armored infantry brigade, and the Carmeli brigade in Operation Dekel (in the Galilee).
		The Golani brigade fought on the Nabatiye Heights and in Kfar Sil, but the battle for which Golani became famous in Lebanon was the capture of the Beaufort outpost - a military fort dating back to the crusader period (12th century), that was used as a terrorist base.
	www.eze33.com /brigade/golani.htm (2116 words)

	Army - Israel
		In the course of the following months, three other Palmach brigades were created out of the independent Palmach battalions: the ‘Negev’ Brigade in the southern lowlands and the northern Negev; the ‘Yiftach’ Brigade in Galilee; and the ‘Harel’ Brigade in the Jerusalem area.
		Brigade commanders exercised considerable autonomy, particularly during battle, following the IDF axiom that the command echelon must serve the assault echelon.
		The Gaza evacuation was handled mainly by the Givati Brigade, and the West Bank evacuation handled by either the Nahal or Golani Brigade.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/world/israel/army.htm (2099 words)

	Israeli Security Forces - IDF - Golani Brigade - Jewish Reference: People, Places, and All Things Jewish
		Brigade No. 1) is an infantry brigade that was formed February 28, 1948 when the Levanoni Brigade in the upper Galilee was divided in two smaller brigades.
		In the 1956 Sinai Campaign the brigade's task was to capture the area around the city Rafah in the Sinai desert.
		The symbol of the brigade is a green tree with its roots on a brown background.
	www.jewishreference.com /israelisecurity-idf-golanibrigade.html (789 words)

	Yiftach Brigade
		During the war, the Yiftach Brigade was responsible for the Galilee area and was under the command of Colonel "Mula" Cohen.
		In October 1948, the Yiftach Brigade took part in Operation Yoav that was focused on combating Egyptian troops in southern Israel.
		Although the 8th armored brigade suffered initial losses, the Yiftach Brigade succeeded in moving into a position that had the Egyptian force almost surrounded.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/world/israel/yiftach_brigade.htm (148 words)

	Untitled Document
		Shir’s Alexei was in the armored corps, Sabina’s Sasha served in the Golani Brigade and Sharon’s Yiftach was a paratrooper.
		How the door opened and Yarden, Yiftach’s twin brother, getting out of the car and holding her tightly, and with his body embracing her, how he spoke to her in soft tones.
		How he explained to her that Yiftach was in fact not among the wounded.
	www.kh-uia.org.il /Crisisnew/ConfrontatioN/13.8.06/13.8.06_eng.htm (2314 words)

	IsraStop: Site of interest Golani Brigade Museum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		However, the Golani Brigade succeeded in bringing the Syrian columns of armor and infantry to a halt, sometimes through the use of Molotov cocktails and face??to??face combat.
		The guerilla, improvisational tactics that prevailed in the pre??State era were grafted with the Brigade commander's experience in the British Army to set the tone of Golani combat doctrine.
		From 1965, the brigade was integrated into ongoing anti??terrorist operations including Shune and Kilat in Jordan, and Hilweh in Lebanon.
	israstop.mine.nu /israstop2004/page4.asp?ID=29 (1679 words)

	Operation Yoav - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The force consisted of three infantry brigades, the Negev Brigade, the Givati Brigade, and the Yiftach Brigade, an armored battalion from the 8th Armored Brigade and the largest artillery formation that had ever been available to the IDF at the time.
		A battalion of the Yiftach Brigade mined the railroad between El-Arish and Rafah and various roads in the Gaza area.
		Two battalions of the Givati Brigade drove south east of Iraq El-Manshiyeh, thus cutting the road between Faluja and Beit Guvrin.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Operation_Yoav (424 words)

	Operation “Yoav”
		The commando battalion of the “Yiftach” Brigade mined the railway between El-Arish and Rafah and various roads in the Rafah-Gaza area, and attacked Egyptian installations and camps.
		On the morning of 16 October, a tank battalion of the 8th Armored Brigade, along with an infantry battalion of the 'Negev' Brigade, launched a major attack against El-Manshiyeh in an attempt to open the corridor to the south-east.
		Givati” Brigade to attack the formidable Huleiqat defense system south on 19-20 October which was successful in capturing the complex and after bitter fighting the road to the Negev was open.
	www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org /jsource/History/Yoav.html (773 words)

	Hezbollah Terrorists Launch War Against Israel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Earlier, one soldier from Brigade 7 was killed after an anti-tank missile hit his tank in the village of Kantara in the eastern sector.
		An officer from Brigade 401 was also seriously wounded and three were lightly wounded after an anti-tank missile hit their tank in the village of Dir Sirin in the western sector.
		Four reservists from the 847th Brigade were killed when an anti-tank missile hit their tank during a fierce gun battle in the south Lebanese village of Ayta al-Shaab in the western sector.
	www.onefamilyfund.com /Default.aspx?tabid=907 (5876 words)

	CHRONOLOGY - INTERNATIONAL PRESS CENTER, PALESTINE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Haganah Golani brigade and Palmach units capture Tiberias as it is evacuated by British.
		Yiftach brigade's assault on Arab Legion in al-Latrun (17 July) ends with Second Truce.
		Negev and Yiftach brigades attack and expel Bedouins and inhabitants of villages in Negev.
	www.ipc.gov.ps /alnakba/English/important-documents/chrono_1948.html (1770 words)

	War of Independance (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.unc.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The brigade force, comprised of three battalions and numbering 1,500 men, was and specifically organized for this operation.
		The operation was to be carried out under Palmach command, utilizing a task force comprised of the Yiftach Brigade, the new 8th Armored Brigade (made up of a tank battalion, a commando battalion of jeeps and half-tracks), and two battalions from the Kiryati and Alexandroni Brigades, as well as additional artillery and engineering units.
		He tasked the 'Givati' Brigade to attack the formidable Huleiqat defense system south on 19-20 October which was successful in capturing the complex and after bitter fighting the road to the Negev was open.
	www.israeli-weapons.com.cob-web.org:8888 /history/war_of_independance/WarofIndependance.html (5039 words)

	A History of Terrorism in Israel
		The Canadian-born soldier, who were serving in the Golani Brigade, had immigrated to Israel in 1991.
		The PFLP and the Fatah Al Aqsa Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.
		Nov 10, 2002 - Revital Ohayon, 34, and her two sons, Matan, 05, and Noam, 04, as well as Yitzhak Dori, 44 - all of Kibbutz Metzer - and Tirza Damari, 42, of Elyachin, were killed when a terrorist infiltrated the kibbutz, located east of Hadera near the Green Line, and opened fire.
	lindasog.com /public/terrorvictims.htm (16627 words)

	Israeli TO&E
		The 7th Brigade fought the first two battles of Latrun (24 May and 30 May) against the Arab Legion.
		The Brigade was issued 6 flame throwers but only two became operational by the second Battle of Latrun.
		Two experimental 6 inch mortars were also issued to the Brigade, but field tests showed them to be flawed, and they never became operational.
	www.balagan.org.uk /war/ai/1948/org_israeli.htm (885 words)

	Chronology of the 1948-49 Arab-Israeli War
		Wahab had the 1st infantry brigade (two battalions), a company of Renault R-35 and R-39 tanks, an armoured car battalion, an artillery regiment, and air support; on the other hand he was short of ammunition for both artillery and small arms.
		The infantry battalion of 7th Brigade holding the flank was meanwhile attacked from its rear by Arab Legion and Arab irregulars; the counter-attackers had come via Beit Jiz and Beit Susin which the Israelis had assumed were empty.
		On the night of 4 Jun the Alexandroni Brigade took the large village of Kakun on the road between Tulkarim and the coastal city of Natanya (Herzog, 1982; Kurzman, 1970).
	www.balagan.org.uk /war/ai/1948/chronology.htm (18204 words)

	Golani Brigade - Independence to Galilee.htm
		As part of the organizational changes towards the 21st Century, the Golani Brigade, which was hitherto directly subordinate to GOC Northern Command, was now placed under the command of a formation in the Northern Command.
		In Nablus they took part in house-to-house fighting, while on the Golan Heights the brigade was involved in heroic battles at Tel Azizyat and Tel Fahr [see right hand column].
		The Golani brigade fought on the Nabatiye Heights and in Kfar Sil, but the battle for which Golani became famous in Lebanon was the capture of the Beaufort outpost
	www.warchronicle.com /units/Israel/golani.htm (1195 words)

	Time Line of the Israeli Aggression against the Palestinians in the 1948 War. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The Palmach's Eighth Armored Brigade and the Third Infantry Battalion of the Alexandroni Brigade.
		Third Battalion of the Giv'ati Brigade and the Ninth Commando Battalion of the Armored Brigade.
		Fourth Battalion of the Har'el Brigade (commanded by the Ethnic Cleansing champion, Yigal Allon).
	thewebfairy.com /nerdcities/Palestine/conquest-timeline.htm (2191 words)

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		Rabin was then commander of the Harel Brigade, assigned to eliminate Arab Legion bases along the Jerusalem-Tel Aviv Road.
		Clearly, we could not leave Lod's hostile and armed population in our rear, where it could endanger the supply route to Yiftach [another brigade], which was advancing eastward.
		Soldiers of the Yiftach brigade included youth-movement graduates, who had been inculcated with values such as international brotherhood and humaneness.
	student.cs.ucc.ie /cs1064/jabowen/IPSC/articles/article0005217.txt (768 words)

	All4Israel
		Nine paratroopers were killed and 11 wounded by anti-tank missiles fired on a house in the village of Debel, in the central sector.
		Four reservists from an armored brigade were killed when their tank was hit by an anti-tank missile, in Ayta al-Shaab.
		Eight of the IDF dead, five soldiers and three officers, were from the Golani Brigade; they were killed in fighting in the town of Bint Jbail.
	www.all4israel.org (2794 words)

	As the storm of war approaches
		Halutz has repeatedly stated that he will resign if he feels that his authority is no longer accepted by the army.
		Yet, the primary officers who have felt the brunt of his authority - Armored Brigade 7 commander Col. Amnon Eshel and Maj. Gen.
		Yiftach Ron-Tal - are the most prominent officers who have forthrightly attempted to point out the reality of the IDF's defeat.
	www.jewishworldreview.com /1006/glick100606.php3?printer_friendly (1661 words)

	TIME LINE OF THE ISRAELI AGGRESSION AGAINST THE PALESTINIANS IN THE 1948 WAR. : LA IMC
		Some units drawn from the Palmach (strike force), and from the Carmeli and Alexandroni Brigades.
		Operation Yiftach (commanded by the ethnic cleansing champion Yigal Allon)
		Possibly units from the Haganah and the Irgun terror gang.
	la.indymedia.org /print.php?id=56146 (1080 words)

	Arutz Sheva - Israel National News
		Widely known as Gandi because of a costume he once wore, Ze'evi was born in Jerusalem in June 1926, studied in Givat HaShlosha (east of Petach Tikvah), and joined the Palmach - an elite unit of the Haganah forerunner of the Israel Defense Forces - in 1944.
		During the War of Independence he was an Intelligence Officer of the Yiftach Brigade, and later served as an Operations Officer in the northern front, as Intelligence Officer in the Southern Command, and as a Brigade Commander in Golani.
		His children all had names with modern Jewish-historic significance: Yiftach Palmach, Sayar Binyamin (who later became a Breslover Hassid and wished to be known only as Benny), Massada, Tse'elah, and Aravah.
	www.israelnationalnews.com /news.php3?id=113765 (841 words)

	Cooperative Research Forum :: General discussion :: TIME LINE OF THE ISRAELI AGGRESSION AGAINST THE PALESTINIANS IN THE ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Invading Israeli brigade : The Palmach's Eighth Armored Brigade and the Third Infantry Battalion of the Alexandroni Brigade.
		Invading Israeli brigade : Third Battalion of the Giv'ati Brigade and the Ninth Commando Battalion of the Armored Brigade.
		Invading Israeli brigade : Fourth Battalion of the Har'el Brigade (commanded by the Ethnic Cleansing champion, Yigal Allon).
	www.cooperativeresearch.org /phorum5/read.php?4,115,116 (6317 words)

	1948 arab-israeli war - Article and Reference from OnPedia.com
		A desperate second attempt occurred July 18 by units from the Yiftach Brigade equipped with armored vehicles, including two Cromwell tanks, but that attack also failed.
		Despite the second truce which begun on July 18 the Israeli efforts to conquer Latrun continued until July 20.
		The Negev Brigade and Golani Brigade took part in the operation.
	www.onpedia.com /encyclopedia/1948-Arab-Israeli-War (3658 words)

	Palmach - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.unc.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		By the war of 1948 it had grown from humble beginnings to three fighting brigades and auxiliary aerial, naval and intelligence units.
		After the establishment of the Israeli Defence Forces, the Palmach was dissolved into two IDF brigades - the Negev Brigade and Yiftach Brigade.
		The Negev and Yiftah Brigade fought in the Negev against the Egyptian army and managed to stop them and later to repulse them into the Gaza Strip and Sharm El Sheikh.
	en.wikipedia.org.cob-web.org:8888 /wiki/Palmach (1377 words)

	Aliyah Bet & Machal Virtual Museum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Harvey Cohen and Ed Lugech, first cousins from Toronto, were with the First Battalion of the Palmach's Yiftach Brigade.
		They disappeared sometime during the first UN Truce, when their unit was at Sarafand for rest and reorganization.
		Sidney Leisure of Toronto was in the 72nd Battalion of the 7th Brigade.
	www.israelvets.com /killedinaction.asp (1582 words)

	1948 Arab-Israeli War information - Search.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		In September 1944 the Jewish Brigade was formed.
		On September 20, 1944, an official communique by the War Office announced the formation of the Jewish Brigade Group of the British Army.
		On 14 May Syria invaded Palestine with the 1st Infantry Brigade supported by a battalion of armoured cars, a company of French R 35 and R 37 tanks, an artillery battalion and other units.
	c10-ss-1-lb.cnet.com /reference/1948_Arab-Israeli_War (7987 words)

	Tours from Tel Aviv
		It was at Faluja, on your immediate right, that the Israeli Army encircled an Egyptian brigade during the War of Independence.
		Drive on past the string of settlements with cotton and wheatfields and then stop for a closer look at the imposing concrete memorial on your right.
		This is the Yiftach Brigade Memorial, commemorating the Yiftach Palmach brigade that saw action in the Galilee and in the centre of the country before shifting south to rout the Egyptians in the ``Faluja Pocket.'' Large concrete steps lead up to the austere memorial inscribed with the names of valiant men.
	www.travelnet.co.il /ISRAEL/TelAviv/tel-TOURS.htm (3300 words)

	seattle.indymedia.org
		commander of the Harel Brigade, assigned to eliminate Arab Legion
		Dani HQ to Yiftah Brigade, 13.30 hours, 12 July 1948:
		determine the method and inform Dani HQ and 8th Brigade HQ.
	seattle.indymedia.org /en/2004/02/238599.shtml (2708 words)

	A birth of a nation: Israel's War of Independence (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Immediately thereafter supplies could no longer easily reach the city and convoys had to turn back, as the road to Jerusalem became impassable once again.
		The capture of Tiberias and the opening of the roads leading to the eastern the Galilee made it possible to reinforce the Haganah troops in the northern tip of the country.
		The Jewish forces captured it within 24 hours and most of the Arab inhabitants left, despite Jewish assurances that no harm would befall them if they stayed.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/1370509/posts (6983 words)

	Amazon.com: "Egyptian Air Force": Key Phrase page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		That evening, Gaza, Majdal and Beit Hanun were bombed, and part of the Egyptian Air Force at El-Arish was put out of action.
		The commando battalion of the `Yiftach' Brigade mined the railway between El-Arish and...
		The Soviet air crews were to wear Egyptian uniforms and their aircraft were to carry Egyptian markings.
	www.amazon.com /phrase/Egyptian-Air-Force (640 words)

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