About 560 photographs from the estate of Brigadier General Gideon Machanaymi (1928-1986). Machanaymi fought with the Palmach from 1946, joined the IDF upon its establishment, and served in the IDF until his last day.
* Album with about 85 photographs from ca. 1948-1954. Photographs from the Independence War in Safed and from Machanaymi's days with IDF during the early 1950s. Enclosed are about 40 later photographs.
* Album with about 100 photographs from ca. 1956-1959. About 70 photographs in the album are from the time of the Suez crisis and they portray, among others, Arik Sharon, Motta Gur and Avraham Vered (a military photographer who shot many of these photographs), investigating Egyptian prisoners, a burnt airplane, "Moshe Vachetzi" (Chief of Staff Moshe Levi) with Italian engineers, female-paratroopers in Sinai, and more. The album also includes about 30 photographs from 1959, a period during which Machanyami trained - with other officers - pilots in the Ethiopian army. Most photographs in the album are titled on the leaves.
* About 330 loose photographs, ca. 1960s to 1980s. Photographs of military operations, Machanaymi with senior IDF officers, family photographs, and more.
Condition varies. Good overall condition.