Yiftach Brigade


The Yiftach Brigade was an Israeli infantry brigade. It included two Palmach battalions, and later also the 2nd, which was transferred from the Negev Brigade.
The Palmach memorial website records 274 of its members being killed whilst in the Yiftach Brigade.
. April 1949

Military operations

The Yiftach Brigade participated in the following Israeli military operations:
The memorial for the fallen soldiers of the Yiftach Brigade is situated in the northern Negev north of Rahat, near Kibbutz Beit Kama and Kama Junction on Road 40.