MAGAL Division HQ (Rishon LeZion)
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(former) School for Non-combat Officers (Bahad 12)now used as MAGAL Division HQ
Used to be a school for non-combat officers (particularly female officers), located in Tzrifin. Now serves as MAGAL div. Headquarters. Machal (Hebrew: מח"ל, an acronym for Mitnadvei Hutz LaAretz (Hebrew: מתנדבי חוץ לארץ), lit. Volunteers from outside the Land [of Israel]) is a term used to describe both Jewish and non-Jewish volunteers who went to Israel to fight in the 1948 Arab-Israeli War including Aliyah Bet. About 4,000 volunteers from all over the world came to fight on the Israeli side.
In recognition of that tradition overseas Israeli citizens (and non-citizens Jews) are able to enrol in a 5-month long pre-IDF servie training & preparation programme under the name of the Magal. The former facilities of the Bahad-12 are now used to facilitate this programme.
This facility is due to close by the end of 2014 / early 2015 when the functions are due to be transferred to the new Central Training Base, in the Negev Desert : Kiryat Ben-Gurion (IrHaBahadim) instead
wikimapia.org/#lat=31.0784096&lon=34.8284313&z=13&l=0&...
www.mahal-idf.org/
Used to be a school for non-combat officers (particularly female officers), located in Tzrifin. Now serves as MAGAL div. Headquarters. Machal (Hebrew: מח"ל, an acronym for Mitnadvei Hutz LaAretz (Hebrew: מתנדבי חוץ לארץ), lit. Volunteers from outside the Land [of Israel]) is a term used to describe both Jewish and non-Jewish volunteers who went to Israel to fight in the 1948 Arab-Israeli War including Aliyah Bet. About 4,000 volunteers from all over the world came to fight on the Israeli side.
In recognition of that tradition overseas Israeli citizens (and non-citizens Jews) are able to enrol in a 5-month long pre-IDF servie training & preparation programme under the name of the Magal. The former facilities of the Bahad-12 are now used to facilitate this programme.
This facility is due to close by the end of 2014 / early 2015 when the functions are due to be transferred to the new Central Training Base, in the Negev Desert : Kiryat Ben-Gurion (IrHaBahadim) instead
wikimapia.org/#lat=31.0784096&lon=34.8284313&z=13&l=0&...
www.mahal-idf.org/
Nearby cities:
Coordinates: 31°57'25"N 34°50'23"E
- Tze'elim Army Base (MATBAT-B) : IDF Tactical Training Center (TTC) 90 km
- (site of) Kiryat Ben–Gurion Base 99 km
- Camp Har Tsavua 103 km
- Shivta Army Base : BAHAD 9 115 km
- Camp Lahav Training Base & Armor Reserve 122 km
- Military Combat Engineering School (Bahalatz 14) 213 km
- Sayarim Army Base : Armor Corps Training School 226 km
- Red Mountain 399 km
- Armor School, Education and Tumen Command 910 km
- US Naval Support Activity - Souda Bay 1072 km
- Camp Yigael Yadin ('Tzifrin') 0.2 km
- Nir Tzvi 2.3 km
- Rambam Neighbourhood 3.1 km
- Lod Valley Regional Council 3.5 km
- Zeitan 5.1 km
- Lod Industrial Zone 5.4 km
- Ben Gurion International Airport 6.5 km
- Hemed 6.8 km
- Holon Industrial zone 7.3 km
- Ariel Sharon Park 9 km