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Sign: Be’er Sheva - Liberation of Beer Sheva in the War of Independence


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David Tuviyahu Ave 65, Beersheba, Israel
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On the sign:
[הסמל הראשון של חטיבה 8]

חטיבה 8
בפיקודו של יצחק שדה במלחמת העצמאות

ביום י"ח בתשרי תש"ט (21.10.1948)
שוחררה עיר האבות באר- שבע
מהכובש המצרי
על ידי יחידות מחטיבה 8 וחטיבה 12
שחברו יחדיו בקרב על העיר באר- שבע במלחמת העצמאות
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The sign is on a building (used as a toilet) in the locomotive complex in Be’er Sheva. The building was photographed on the same day Click for a larger image

Translation of the text on the sign:
[First badge of Division 8]

Division 8
Under the command of Yitzhak Sade in the War of Independence

On the 18th day of Tishri (October 21, 1948)
The ancestral city of Beer-Sheva was liberated
From the Egyptian conqueror
by units from the 8th and 12th brigades
who joined together in the battle for the city of Be’er Sheva in the War of Independence

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