Maale Akrabim, Skorpionikukkula 1954
- The Ma'ale Akrabim massacre was an attack on an Israeli civilian passenger bus, carried out the night of 16-17 March 1954. Eleven passengers were shot dead by the attackers who ambushed and boarded the bus. Four passengers survived, 2 of whom had been injured by the gunmen.
- Scorpions Pass (Hebrew: Ma'ale 'Akrabim) is a narrow, winding grade on the old road connecting Eilat and Beersheba, just south of Makhtesh Katan, and roughly 60 miles south of Beersheba. The pass was on the primary route between Eilat and central Israel in 1954. The 1948 Arab-Israeli war ended with the signing of several armistice agreements between Israel and her neighboring Arab states, but border clashes began almost immediately after the signing agreements.
- On the night of 16 March, a bus operated by the Egged Israel Transport Cooperative Society on an unscheduled journey carrying 14 passengers made its way from Eilat to Tel Aviv. As it was climbing up the steep grade, it was ambushed by gunmen who shot and killed the driver as well as passengers who tried to escape; they then proceeded to board the bus and shoot and pilfer from the remaining passengers. The male driver, eight male passengers and two female passengers were killed. The four survivors were a five-year-old girl, Miri Firstenberg, after one of the soldiers riding the bus defended her with his body, two Israeli soldiers and a woman.
SKORPIONISOLA ( Ruotsiksi Skorpionhöjden) on kapea, jyrkkä kalteva vanha tie, joka yhdistää eilatin ja beersheban aivan Maktesh katan- pienen kraterin eteläpuolella ( noin 60 mailia Beershebasta) . Vuonna 1954 oli tämä sola pääreittiä Eilatin ja keski-Israelin välillä. Vuoden 1948 arabien ja israelilaisten välinen sota oli päättynyt usean aseellisen osapuolen sopimuksella Israelin ja sitä ympäröivien arabi-naapurivaltioiden kesken, mutta miltei välittömästi sopimuksien allekirjoituksen jälkeen alkoivat rajakahakat.
16.3. 1954 oli Eggedin bussi vakiovuorosta poikkeavalla ajalla kuljettamassa 14 matkustajaa Eilatista Tel-Aviviin.Kun se oli nousemassa jyrkkää kaltevaa tietä, väijytyksessä ollut ampuja ampui ja surmasi ajajan ja matkustajat , jotka koettivat paeta. Miesajaja, kahdeksan miespuolista matkustajaa ja kaksi naismatkustajaa sai surmansa. neljä eloonjäänyttä olivat eräs 5-vuotias tyttö, Miri Firstenberg,sillä yksi bussissa matkustanut sotilas suojasi häntä omalla kehollaan, sekä kaksi sotilasta ja yksi nainen.
Miten Israel muistaa terrorinuhrien ja orpojensa kohtaloa?
HALALEI MA´ARACHOT ISRAEL
2018 On Tuesday, the eve of the Day of Remembrance for the Fallen Soldiers of Israel and Victims of Terrorism, hundreds of members of bereaved families attended the annual ”Songs in Their Memory” event in the Knesset`s Chagall Hall.
The main national event on the eve of the Day of Remembrance was held in the presence of President Reuven Rivlin and Prime Minister MK Benjamin Netanyahu, with the participation of Speaker of the Knesset MK Yuli Yoel Edelstein, Supreme Court President Esther Hayut, Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman, Minister of Labor, Social Affairs and Social Services Haim Katz, Police Commissioner Roni Alsheikh, Deputy IDF Chief of Staff Maj.-Gen. Aviv Kochavi, Prison Service Commissioner Ofra Klinger and Mossad Director Yossi Cohen, all of whom recited poems in memory of fallen soldiers.
https://m.knesset.gov.il/EN/News/PressReleases/pages/Pr13843_pg.aspx
- The story of Miri Firstenberg, who survived the Ma`ale Akrabim massacre on March 17, 1954. Miri`s parents were among the 11 people who were murdered when terrorists ambushed and boarded a passenger bus travelling from Eilat to Tel Aviv. Miri, who was five years old at the time of the attack, was saved by a soldier who defended her with his body and was killed in the process. Her brother, who was nine, was shot, and he spent 32 years in a state of paralysis and partial recognition until he died. Miri`s granddaughter Tomer, a commander at the Bahad 1 officers` training base, will attend the event.
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