Jordan Valley Monument
The Jordan Valley Memorial (English Jordan Valley Monument ) or Andartat Habikaa ( Hebrew אנדרטת הבקעה) is a memorial for Israeli soldiers , in the line of duty to protect the border in the Jordan Valley were killed against paramilitary attacks from Jordan. The large sculpture is the work of the German-born Israeli artist Igael Tumarkin and was inaugurated on November 28, 1972. The memorial is located on a hill on the western slope of the Jordan Valley south of the village ( Moschaw Shitufi ) Yafit and can be reached from highway 90 via its own access road.
The 21-meter-high monument is a steel composition made of weapon and vehicle parts that look like a machine gun and protrude from seemingly symbolic concrete fragments . On a wall that adjoins it in a straight line on the side there are several plaques listing the names of the Israeli soldiers who have been killed since 1967. The memorial was built at the suggestion of the then chief of the Israeli Central Command ( Aluf ) Aharon Ze'evi-Farkash .
The facility is also one of the few fortified viewpoints in the central Jordan Valley near highway 90. From here you can see the Moav Mountains on the Jordanian side and the nearby plain of the Jordan River with farms.
Web links
- Moshav Gittit (Gitit), The Sartaba and the Jordan Valley Memorial Monument . (Community site), brief description (English)
- Memorial day 1981. Postage stamp with the Jordan Valley Memorial (English)
Coordinates: 32 ° 3 ′ 14.7 " N , 35 ° 27 ′ 43.5" E