Around 230 photographs belonging to Chief of Staff Mordechai (Motta) Gur (1930-1995).
The collection includes family photographs, childhood and youth photographs, photographs of squad commanders course in 1948, of operations in Qalqilya, Khan Yunes, El Arish, photographs with Yitzchak Rabin, Moshe Dayan and Shimon Peres, photographs of the Mitla, large photographs from Egypt, with head of Egyptian Intelligence during negotiations with Egypt and photographs after the occupation of the Old City in 1967, with Rabbi Shlomo Goren, in a formation held after the occupation, and more.
Among his roles, Gur, born in Jerusalem, served as the Tenth Chief of Staff of IDF, as Health Minister and Deputy Defense Minister. Gur also served as Company commander of the “Negev” Division during the 1948 war, a paratroopers company commander (led the company in most of the retaliation operations; was injured in Han Yunes and was awarded a “Medal of Courage”); was the commander of the Mitla Pass battle in the Sinai War; commander of the division which occupied the Old City of Jerusalem in the Six Day War; commander of the operation to release the Entebbe hostages, the “Litani” operation, and more. Size and condition vary.
Enclosed are dozens of family photographs