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The memorial site was originally constructed in 1986 in the heart of a forest dedicated to the friendship between South Africa and Israel. The current project involved restoring the remarkable stone monument and memorial wall, with the updated names of the fallen. Behind every name on the memorial wall is the life story of someone who fell, and a family that grieves. The connection with KKL-JNF in Israel and in South Africa allows us to salute our sons and daughters. It is in their merit...

The JNF Bricha (Escape) Trail is the project developed by the JNF of South Africa. The commemorative trail is located in the Carmel Forest of Northern Israel and is three kilometres long. It is an educational project and includes observation points and explanatory signs along the way which tell the history of the heroic Bricha Movement. Founded by Abba Kovner and other surviving partisans of Vilna, the Bricha Movement began operating in July 1945 and was active in organising the immigration...