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Sign: Balfour Gymnasium - Commemoration of Underground Movements in Tel Aviv


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Maze St 34, Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel
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סמל העיר תל אביב
עיריית תל אביב יפו

מק"ל - גימנסיה "בלפור"
גימנסיה "בלפור", ששכנה בבניין זה, שימשה בשנים תש"א עד תש"ז (1941-1947) מרכז אימונים של ההגנה, צבא המדינה שבדרך, בתחומים כגון: נשק קל, שדאות, טופוגרפיה, עזרה ראשונה, קשר והגנה עצמית.
המקום שימש גם מחבוא לנשק ("סליק").

סמל העיר תל אביב
סמל ההגנה

Training Site - Balfour Gymnasium
The Balfour High School, which was located in this building, served as a training center for the Hagana - Israel’s pre-State army - between 1941 and 1947.
Its members received training in light weapons, fieldcraft, topography, first aid, signal communications and self-defense.
The site was also a secret arms cache.
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The sign is rectangular but its head is designed according to the emblem of the city of Tel Aviv

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Translation of the text on the sign:
The emblem of the city of Tel Aviv
Tel Aviv Jaffa municipality

The emblem of the city of Tel Aviv
The emblem of the Haganah organization

The rest of the Hebrew text is translated to English on the sign




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