Ashdod Travelers guide

Ashdod | Sightseeing 130 Philistia on the night June 2-3 cost the lives of 54 men, all from the same Givati Battalion. While the Egyptian forces, which included an infantry brigade reinforced by armored vehicles and cannons under the command of Brigadier (Colonel) Mahmad Najib, began building a Bailey Bridge in an attempt to overcome the obstacle of the stream, the Air force's first four Messerschmitt airplanes, purchased in Czechoslovakia, assembled on the Israeli base at Tel Nof. The first squadron of the Israeli air force left immediately, under the command of Lieutenant Colonel Mudi Alon, with one of the four planes piloted by Ezer Weizman, who later became the Commander of the Air Force and, later on, the President of Israel. The attack led to the halting of the Egyptian column toward Tel Aviv, but the squadron suffered its first loss. In October 1948, following Operation "Yoav", the Egyptians retreated to the south. Now carefully go down the stairs to the left of the monument, towards the stream bed, and pass under the new railway bridge. A short walk will lead you to a beautiful observation point that overlooks the renovated historical Ad Halom bridge as well as the bed of the Lachish stream. The Ottoman Bridge, which was built at the end of the 19th century over the steam bed of Wadi Sukrir (the Lachish Stream) and crossed the route from Yavne to "El-Majdal" (Ashkelon), was built on the foundations of a bridge from the Roman period, and for decades served as the central axis on the Ashdod-Ashkelon route. At the beginning of the 1980s, traffic was diverted to a new route in the east, and the Ad Halom bridge was left standing between the Railway bridge and the new road. The original bridge, blown up by the Givati forces during Operation "Barak", was restored after the War of Independence and rebuilt in the mid-2000s as part of the development work on Ad Halom Park. If you go up to the bridge itself, you will notice a monument to your left in memory of Public Works Authority workers who died in the wars and acts of terrorism launched against . TIP During floods you can see the mighty flow of the stream from here.