Sign erected in the Nirim dining hall in 1948 for the May Day celebrations, on one of the few surviving walls in the village. The sentence reads "Not the tank shall prevail, but the man", and became an icon of Nirim's successful stand
The Battle of Nirim was a military engagement between the Egyptian army and the Jewish Haganah militia on May 15, 1948, the first day of the Egyptian invasion of Israel in the 1948 Arab–Israeli War. It was fought in kibbutz Nirim, founded just two years earlier as part of the strategic settlement push known as the "11 points in the Negev". The Egyptian 6th Battalion attacked about 40 Israeli defenders at dawn on May 15, backed by armored vehicles, mortars, cannons and aircraft. They failed to take the village and retreated about 7 hours later, leaving behind about 30–35 dead.
The BattleofNirim was a military engagement between the Egyptian army and the Jewish Haganah militia on May 15, 1948, the first day of the Egyptian invasion...
army, in the BattleofNirim. It had 39 defenders. During the battle, the Egyptians came within 25 meters of the kibbutz perimeter and eight of the kibbutz...
militants coming from the Gaza Strip. One of their targets was Nirim, a kibbutz located in the southern part of Israel, about 2 kilometres (1.2 mi) from...
Following is a list ofbattles and operations in the 1948 Palestine war. Following is a list of operations undertaken by the Yishuv and later Israel to...
War began as a coalition of Arab states attacked under the overall command of King Abdullah of Transjordan. The BattleofNirim was fought, with Egyptian...
battles of the Hamas-led attack on Israel, he was killed defending Kibbutz Nirim. His body was taken to Gaza by Hamas. Along with Roi Levy, Yonatan Steinberg...
Elta, an Israeli defense company and subsidiary of Israel Aerospace Industries, and by the IDF. Battle Management & Weapon Control (BMC): the control center...
City who was killed by the Israeli military, after being the sole survivor of Israeli tank fire on the vehicle in which she had fled with six relatives...
apocalyptic battle against the forces of Jewish Bolshevism was to be carried out as a war of extermination with complete disregard for the laws and customs of war...
collective of actors, filmmakers, and other artists calling for an immediate and permanent ceasefire during the Israel–Hamas war in Gaza, the delivery of humanitarian...
broadly, there are reports of various forms of necroviolence against Palestinians (against corpses) in the ongoing occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip...
The killing of Yuval Castleman occurred on 30 November 2023, during the Givat Shaul shooting in Jerusalem when Yuval Doron Castleman (Hebrew: יובל דורון...
his youth, and served in the 50th Battalion of the Parachute Nahal. He was one of the founding members of Kibbutz Nir Oz in 1955, serving as both coordinator...
and was involved in the murder of many other Jews in 1366. When Peter's half-brother Henry killed him during a battle in a civil war in 1369, Jews lost...
defence of Negba, Kafr Daron, Be'erot Yitzhak and Nirim. In October 1948 the Brigade took part in the conquest of Beersheba. They were part of Operations...
of the song support the soldiers of the Israel Defense Forces and condemn the perpetrators of the Hamas attack on Israel, calling for the deaths of the...
another column went east toward Beersheba, and a third attacked kibbutz Nirim. On May 17, a small force split off from Beersheba to link up with more...
on May 15, 1948, following Israel's declaration of independence on the previous day. They attacked Nirim and Kfar Darom at first, and their main column...
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