Yiftach Brigade

[1] The Palmach memorial website records 274 of its members being killed whilst in the Yiftach Brigade.

It fought in the Egyptian front of the Yom Kippur War in 1973.

After the war it was regrouped and its unit number was changed to 576. in 2006 the brigade fought in Operation Defensive Shield.

Most of the soldiers off the brigade completed their service in the Egoz unit.

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.

Emblem of the brigade
Yiftach Brigade parading in Haifa . April 1949
Yiftach Brigade Second Battalion on parade marking first anniversary of the 1948 Arab-Israeli war , Haifa
Yiftach Brigade Memorial near Beit Kama