) In Israel, it’s often all about the andartot, the monuments placed throughout the country memorializing the fallen. They’re everywhere, and some offer a particularly significant and meaningful understanding of the event and victims being remembered. Take a drive to the Monument of the Negev Brigade outside Beersheba, known locally as the Andarta, commemorating the members of the Palmach Negev Brigade who fell in the 1948 war.
Designed by sculptor Dani Karavan, it is considered one of the first pieces in the land art movement, as the sweep of raw concrete is powerful in its impression, and physically symbolic. Visitors can scramble across its tower and through its tunnel, reading the names of the soldiers who died and passages from their diaries.
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