A huge, imposing memorial to the Israelis who fell in the battles in the Lower Galilee was dedicated today in the presence of President and Mrs. Itzhak Ben Zvi and thousands of relatives of the fallen. The memorial, a statue carved in basalt, stands at the junction of the Tiberias, Afula and Nazareth roads. The names of the fallen are inscribed on a white, triangular stone.
President Ben Zvi, whose own son fell in that area, told the assemblage that the monument was actually three-fold in that it represented the Hashomer, the first Jewish defense forces in Palestine, the Hagana, the Jewish underground army during the British mandate, and the Israel Army of Defense.
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