The monument consisting of the letters "MACHAL" (the Hebrew letters that are the initials of Mitnadvei Chutz LaAretz) was photographed that day by the same photographer
Click for a larger image Click for a larger image There is a sign on the monument with details about the monument:
Symbol of the Jewish National Fund
A monument to commemorate the volunteers of the IDF
1948-1949
Inaugurated on Memorial Day 1993
4/25/1993
1948
Design - Yoram Shaham, landscape architect
Photographed that day by the same photographer
Click for a larger image And another sign with a quote from the words of Yitzhak Rabin:
THEY CAME TO US WHEN WE NEEDED THEM MOST. DURING THOSE HARD AND UNCERTAIN DAYS OF OUR WAR INDEPENDENCE.
1976
YITZHAK RABIN
The sign was taken that day by the same photographer
Click for a larger image Behind the monument are large stone boards, on which are the names of the fallen according to the countries from which they came, and below the symbols of the units in which IDF volunteers operated. Quotes by David Ben-Gurion and Yitzhak Rabin (Part of a quote that appears on the previous sign):
"The greatest contribution the Jewish Diaspora ever made to Israel was in providing the Machal Volunteers"
(David Ben Gurion)
"They came to us when we most needed them"
(Yitzhak Rabin)
In the next picture taken that day by the same photographer you can see the text listed above
Click for a larger image Another sign mentions Stanley Medicks who initiated the erection of the monument
Click for sign's details
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