Yiftach Brigade

The Yiftach Brigade participated in the following Israeli military operations:

He served in the Yiftach Brigade and was wounded during Operation Yoav.

The Palmach memorial website records 274 of its members being killed whilst in the Yiftach Brigade.

During the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, he served as a technical officer in the Yiftach Brigade.

On 9 July units from the Yiftach Brigade began approaching Ramle from the south.

It was depopulated in July 1948 during the Operation Dani led by the Yiftach Brigade.

The Israelis deployed a reinforced battalion from the Yiftach Brigade for the operation, with another battalion in the reserve.

Meanwhile, the Yiftach brigade took up positions along the planned route of the convoy and staged a diversionary attack in the area of Julis.

During the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, the village was captured by the Yiftach Brigade in early October, meeting with no resistance.

Elements of the Yiftach Brigade which had participated in Operation Danny in July were moved south for the operation.

One was used by the Yiftach Brigade in the battle for Safed, and now stands in a square in Safed.

Barbara was captured by a possible combination of the Negev, Giv'ati and Yiftach brigades on November 5, 1948 during Operation Yoav.

The poorly supplied brigade was defending Al-Malkiyya in June 1948, replacing the Yiftach Brigade, when the Lebanese army attacked.

After finishing his agriculture studies in Mikve Israel, Abraham joined the Palmach in 1947 and was assigned to the Yiftach Brigade.

Be'eri had already prepared a firing squad consisting of six soldiers from the Palmach Yiftach Brigade, which was in control of the Jerusalem corridor zone.

A desperate second attempt occurred on 18 July by units from the Yiftach Brigade equipped with armored vehicles, including two Cromwell tanks, but that attack also failed.

The following year he reached Israel, and joined the Palmach's Yiftach Brigade, with whom he fought in the 1948 Arab-Israeli War.

As Yiftach Brigade units reached the individual villages, the Negev Brigade forces were slowly evacuated northwards, leaving their supplies to their replacements.

At the end of September the Yiftach Brigade launched an operation west of Mishmar Hanegev expelling Arabs and confiscating their livestock.

The operation led to the transformation of the Negev Brigade, which was completely re-supplied (having left their supplies to the Yiftach Brigade), and gained about 1,000 new soldiers.

During Israel's War of Independence in 1948, it served as the headquarters of the Palmach Yiftach Brigade and a base for convoys bringing supplies to Jerusalem.

The Yiftach Brigade (also known as the Yiftah Brigade, the 11th Brigade in the 1948 Arab-Israeli war) was an Israeli infantry brigade.

The story is based on the real-life battle for Horbat Ma'achaz fought by the Yiftach Brigade in October 1948, although the battle is never mentioned by name.

During the following days, much of the Yiftach Brigade covertly made their way to the Negev by land, just west of Kawkaba and Huleikat, bypassing Egyptian positions.

A battalion of the Yiftach Brigade mined the railroad between El-Arish and Rafah and various roads in the Gaza area, also driving a wedge into the road.