Battles of the Kinarot Valley: Facts

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during the Six-Day War, the Golani Brigade participated in the battle of Tel Faher, where it lost 23 of its soldiers?

Ron Feller, a PIAT operator in the Israel Defense Forces, received the Hero of Israel citation for his actions in Operation Death to the Invader on July 18, 1948?
although criticized for poor performance in the 2006 Lebanon War by the Winograd Commission, Brigadier-General Eyal Eisenberg was promoted to command the Israel Defense Forces's Gaza Division?
following the capture of Kafr 'Inan during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war, its inhabitants were expelled by the Israel Defense Forces on three separate occasions in 1949?
six Israeli soldiers may face disciplinary action for filming a viral dance video called IDF Tick Tock?
the Israel Defense Forces captured the Iraq Suwaydan police fort in Operation Shmone after seven previous failed attempts?
the Battles of the Separation Corridor saw the first use of tanks by the Israel Defense Forces against the Egyptian army?
the day after the death of six IDF soldiers in the Battle of the Beaufort (pictured), Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin was still under the impression that it was won without casualties?
the name of Operation Defensive Shield, launched by the Israel Defense Forces in 2002, was taken from a song written in 1948 by Palmach songwriter Haim Hefer?

"A-Ba-Ni-Bi", Israel's entry in the Eurovision Song Contest 1978, was performed partly in the Hebrew equivalent of Pig Latin?
20th-century medieval scholar Erika Cheetham interpreted Nostradamus' writings as prophecies of Napoleon, Hitler, and the establishment of modern Israel?
39% of Israeli schoolchildren watch the educational television program Bli Sodot in their classroom?
archaeologist Francis Turville-Petre, discoverer of Neanderthal remains in Israel, was portrayed in works by authors W. H. Auden and Christopher Isherwood?
Ariel Sharon named his former party, Shlomtzion, after the newly born daughter of Amos Keinan, co-founder of the Israeli–Palestinian Council?
fallow deer bones found in the Qesem Cave, Israel, show evidence that humans 400,000 to 200,000 years ago butchered animals to share and cook?
Israel and China were cultivating military cooperation well before the establishment of diplomatic relations in 1992?
Israel has the highest solar energy use per capita in the world?
Israel is the world's largest recipient of United States overseas military assistance?
Israel's deadliest traffic accident took place in December 2008 when a tourists' coach en route to the resort town of Eilat plunged into a ravine?

Israel's future Prime Minister, Yitzhak Shamir, and its future President of the Supreme Court, Meir Shamgar, were both interned in Africa by British Mandate authorities for membership in Lehi and Irgun?
former Israeli politician and Speaker of the Knesset Shlomo Hillel was in charge of an underground ammunition factory disguised as a laundry facility during the British Mandate of Palestine?
the Hashomer Hatzair Workers Party was the sole Zionist party in Mandate Palestine to advocate national rights for Palestinian Arabs?
the first stamps of Palestine (Rachel's tomb stamp, pictured) under the British Mandate were trilingual, due to a League of Nations requirement?
the followers of the Socialist Workers Party in Palestine, the precursor of the Communist Party of Israel, were known as mopsim?
while mayor of Gaza, Fahmi al-Husseini was imprisoned by British Mandate authorities on charges of opposing the British presence in Palestine during the 1936 Arab revolt?

Jerusalem's Kanfei Nesharim Street is long and wide and straight like a runway, because it was originally built as one?
Jerusalem's Street of the Prophets was originally called "Street of the Hospitals" and "Street of the Consuls"?
millwrights from Canterbury, Kent, built Moses Montefiore Windmill (pictured) in Jerusalem, Israel, in 1857?
Birket Israel, once the largest reservoir in Jerusalem, is now a parking lot?
Holy Land USA (pictured), a Connecticut theme park intended to replicate Bethlehem and Jerusalem of the biblical era, once attracted more than 40,000 visitors annually?
Motza (pictured), founded in 1859, was the first modern village established near Jerusalem?
Sabil Abu Nabbut (pictured) was a public fountain built by Ottoman governor Muhammad Abu Nabbut in 1812 to facilitate the journey between Jaffa and Jerusalem?
Sami Hadawi, author of works on the land rights of Palestinian refugees, was exiled by Israel in 1948 and denied permission to have his remains returned to his native Jerusalem for burial in 2004?
a seam (pictured) along the eastern wall of the Temple Mount may be a clue to the location of the Acra, a Seleucid citadel in ancient Jerusalem?
during the Roman Empire in Palestine, the road that connected Lydda to Jerusalem passed through Barfiliya?