Geva Newsreel 139, 1957

IDF Fallen Soldiers of Suez Crisis Buried on Mount Herzl

1957
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Directed by: Unknown
Subtitles: English, Hebrew

Archive footage from the Suez Crisis documents the occupation of Egyptian cities by the IDF. The coffins of 54 IDF soldiers that died in the war are brought in trucks to Jerusalem. The coffins are buried on Mount Herzl in a military ceremony in the presence of Prime Minister David Ben Gurion and Chief of the General Staff Lieutenant General Moshe Dayan.

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