Ad Halom

Ad Halom (Hebrew: עַד הֲלוֹם) is a site at the eastern entrance to the city of Ashdod, Israel, where three bridges cross the Lakhish River.

The mission was flown by Lou Lenart, U.S.A., Ezer Weizman, Modi Alon, Israel, and Eddie Cohen, South Africa, to attack the Egyptians between the Arab village of Isdud and the bridge over the Lachish River.

The Egyptian forces were later defeated in Operation Yoav; the pillbox and defensive wall remain as memorials of the events.

At the Camp David Accords, Israel and Egypt convened for a monument dedicated to the fallen Egyptian soldiers to be erected at the site, in exchange for the Israeli memorials to fallen Israeli soldiers from the Sinai Peninsula being protected and preserved by the Egyptian authorities.

The short distance between the railway and poor planning of the Ad Halom junction on Highway 4 cause traffic jams.

Jisr Isdud , restored section of Mamluk bridge, 2005
Ad Halom, the northernmost point reached by the Egyptian army, was within the area allocated to the Arab state in the United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine
Two of the three bridges at Ad Halom side by side; the railway bridge on the left, and Jisr Isdud on the right.