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The 84th "Givati" Brigade (Hebrew: חֲטִיבַת גִּבְעָתִי, lit. '"Hill Brigade" or "Highland Brigade"') is an Israel Defense Forces infantry brigade formed in 1947. During the 1948 war , it was involved in capturing Palestinian villages in operations Hametz , Barak , and Pleshet .
The Givati Brigade's official history states that after these operations, the brigade HQ acted to 'curtail the instinct to loot and maltreat prisoners [hit'alelut beshvuyim]'. [31] In 1949, the Israeli moshav of Kidron was established on Qatra's land. [5] The current Israeli towns built on Qatra's land are Gedera and Kidron.
84th Givati Brigade. 89th Oz Brigade. 130th Brigade. 188th Armored Brigade [formerly 2nd Carmeli Brigade] 205th "Iron Fist" (Reserve) Armor Brigade. 214th Artillery ...
401st Brigade [7] 460th Brigade [7] Givati Brigade [8] Nahal Brigade [9] 143rd Division [10] Central Command. 99th Division. 900th Brigade [11] Israeli Air Force; Palestinian Joint Operations Room al-Qassam Brigades Al-Quds Brigades; Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades Abu Ali Mustafa Brigades National Resistance Brigades Al-Nasser Salah al-Deen Brigades
Tell es-Safi (Arabic: تل الصافي, romanized: Tall aṣ-Ṣāfī, "White hill"; Hebrew: תל צפית, Tel Tzafit) was an Arab Palestinian village, located on the southern banks of Wadi 'Ajjur, 35 kilometers (22 mi) northwest of Hebron which had its Arab population expelled during the 1948 Arab–Israeli war on orders of Shimon Avidan, commander of the Givati Brigade.
As mentioned, the Yiftach Brigade failed to capture Huleiqat and its outlying position (Hill 138.5) on October 17–18. Givati, on the other hand, succeeded in capturing Kawkaba to the north, and on October 18–19—the adjacent Bayt Tima. No further attempts were made to attack Huleiqat from the south, and instead Givati set out to capture it ...
The Givati Brigade (on the west side) and Harel Brigade (on the east side) were engaged in fighting, notably in the Latrun area. [11] [13] Between 9–11 May, a battalion of the Harel brigade attacked and took the village of Bayt Mahsir, used by Palestinians as a base for the control of Bab al-Wad. The "Sha'ar HaGai" battalion of the Harel ...
The Israeli defenders of Nitzanim consisted of two platoons from the Givati Brigade's 53rd Battalion, one of which was made up of new recruits, for a total of 74 soldiers. The recruits had been brought in from the reserve 58th Battalion during Operation Pleshet , in order to free up a more experienced platoon from Nitzanim for the operation. [ 13 ]