Gadsar 134 memorials, Military memorial site in Ein Zivan, Israel.
Gadsar 134 memorials is a monument site in Ein Zivan honoring 35 fallen soldiers from a reconnaissance battalion. The grounds contain inscribed plaques, stone monuments, and a distinct section featuring an armored vehicle with cedar elements.
Gadsar 134, a mixed tank and armoured personnel carrier reconnaissance battalion, was formed in 1972 and joined Division 36. In the Yom Kippur War it fought under Brigade 179 against the Syrians in the Hushniya sector; 35 of its soldiers died, eight of them when a shell pierced their APC on 10 October 1973. The battalion was disbanded after the war. The Latrun memorial in the Armored Corps park was unveiled on 5 June 2018.
The Ein Zivan site pairs the battalion's story, inscribed on a stone panel installed in 2013, with the sculpture "A Mother Mourns Her Son" by Rivka Keren, whose son Ilan, a tank officer in the battalion, fell on 8 October 1973 near the Oil Route. A Sherman tank the unit used to open a route on the Hermon and a captured Syrian 122 mm gun stand beside it.
The site is accessible by foot and can be reached using local transportation from nearby communities. It is best to visit during daylight hours and plan your route in advance for easier navigation.
The Ein Zivan memorial centers on a Syrian 122 mm gun and a Sherman tank the battalion used to open a route on Mount Hermon. In 1977 Eitan Sad had the tank driven on its tracks along Golan roads from the Hermon to the site, where Ezra Tal and Ilan Gal-On parked it.
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