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Sign: Radar Hill - In memory of the 5th battalion of the Palmach-Harel

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Beit Shemesh - Sha’ar HaGai Road, Israel
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On the sign:
סמל הגדוד החמישי

מחנה הרדאר
אור ליום כ"ד באייר תש"ח
ליל 1-2 ביוני 1948

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The memorial site was photographed that day by the same photographer Click for a larger image

Radar Hill was a hill with a telephone radio facility, which was of great importance because Arab forces hit the telephone lines and the hill also controlled the road between Jerusalem and Tel Aviv. After the British evacuated the compound, the Palmach forces managed to occupy it, but the Arab forces in a number of attacks managed to occupy it back. Many attempts were made to take over the hill (including the one marked on the sign) but all failed and cost many fighters their lives.

Translation of the text on the sign:
Emblem of the Fifth Battalion

Radar Hill
Night 1-2 June 1948

A failed attempt to occupy the radar compound



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