Yad Mordechai
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Yad Mordechai is a kibbutz in Southern Israel. Located 10 km south of Ashkelon, it falls under the jurisdiction of Hof Ashkelon Regional Council. In 2024 it had a population of 1,014.
Memorial to Mordechai Anielewicz next to the destroyed water tower at Yad Mordechai
Yad Mordechai Museum
Yad Mordechai in 1941
Battle of Yad Mordechai
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The Battle of Yad Mordechai was fought between Egypt and Israel in the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, at the Israeli kibbutz of Yad Mordechai. The Egyptians attacked the settlement several times throughout Ma
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…commander of the Jewish Fighting Organization in the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. During the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, the kibbutz was attacked by Egypt in the Battle of Yad Mordechai. Among the many Holocaust memorials in Israel, the "From Holocaust to Revival Museum" especially commemorates Jewish resistance against the Nazis as…
The "Yad Mordechai" Kibbutz children were evacuated by these improvised armored cars, only hours before the Egyptian attack on 19/5/1948
Kibbutz members at a military briefing in Yad Mordechai (Abba Kovner standing at right)