The monument was photographed that day
Click for a larger image Click for a larger image On the side of the monument are 2 plaques with the words:
long live the state of Israel
The last words of the Olei Hagardom
The late Yosef Batzri
And the late Shalom Tzalach
Hanged in Iraq 20.1.1952
Belonging to the He - Chaluts movement
Click for a larger image Yitzhak Sasson
The late Saleh-Shaba
Killed in a murder bomb dropped on a synagogue
Masuda Shem Tov in Baghdad
On the eighth day of Tevet 1951
Click for a larger image Translation of the text on the sign:
A monument of heroism in memory of the Olei Hagardom in Iraq
Lawyer Lt.Yosef Batzri and Shalom Saleh the 14th
Activists in the Zionist pioneering underground in Iraq
Their last words were "Long live the State of Israel"
01/20/1952
The late sculptorSamson Merhav
Born in Basra, Iraq 1937-2004
Branding symbol of Or Yehuda
Symbol of the Babylonian Jewish Heritage Center
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