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Kiryati Brigade
Engagements
Operation Danny
Operation Hametz
Suez War
Israel-Hamas war
Military unit
The Kiryati Brigade (the 4th Brigade in the 1948 Arab-Israeli war) was formed in 1948 by David Ben-Gurion and was one of the original nine brigades that made up the Haganah. The Kiryati Brigade was initially responsible for securing the area in and around Tel Aviv. The brigade participated in several battles during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war, and also played a role in the Suez War. Today it is a reserviste brigade part of the 146th Division.
Three of its original battalions were:
42nd battalion
43rd battalion (commanded by Amos Ben-Gurion, the son of David Ben-Gurion)
The KiryatiBrigade (the 4th Brigade in the 1948 Arab-Israeli war) was formed in 1948 by David Ben-Gurion and was one of the original nine brigades that...
tunnel systems while the al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades, the National Resistance Brigades and the al-Quds Brigades fought the IDF in different areas of the...
headquarters of the Sherut Avir (later Israeli Air Force) and the KiryatiBrigade. The Givati Brigade was also founded at the base. Over the years, the military...
or KiryatiBrigade – formed in 1948 in the Tel Aviv area The 5th or Givati Brigade – formed in December 1947. During civil war the Givati Brigade was...
militia (Field Corps) into six regional brigades – Levanoni in the north, Alexandroni in the Sharon region, Kiryati in the Tel Aviv area, Givati in the Shfela...
Alexandroni Brigade and by the Givati Brigade from the south. They met little or no resistance. The Irgun captured the neighborhood of Menashiya. The Kiryati Brigade...
The orders for Lydda were from Dani HQ to Yiftah Brigade HQ and 8th Brigade HQ, and to KiryatiBrigade at around the same time. "1. The inhabitants of...
Jewish retaliatory strikes followed. On 2 December the Haganah's KiryatiBrigade blew up an Arab house in Abu Kabir, and the IZL torched several buildings...
militia men from kibbutz Gezer, who were later replaced by troops from KiryatiBrigade. On May 19, Arab Legion sources claimed that villagers were being killed...
of Sadeh's Armoured Brigade. His methods of recruiting volunteers from other army units, such as the Golani and KiryatiBrigades, provoked complaints...
1997-1998 he served as the maintenance and service officer of the KiryatiBrigade. In 2006 he was appointed Maintenance and Service Officer of the Ga'ash...
July 14, 1948. It was captured by the 8th Armoured Brigade and by elements of the KiryatiBrigade along with other villages in the area north of the Latrun...
guidelines, distributed to all brigade OCs, and specific orders to each of the six territorial brigades (gEtzioni [Jerusalem], Kiryati [(Tel Aviv], Givgati [Rehovot-Rishon...
Gedera–Bashit area. A battalion was also temporarily transferred from Kiryati to Givati (now referred to as the 56th), preparing in Abu Shusha and Hulda...
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