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Three Impressive Photographs from the Mandate Period - Kiryat Anavim. On the building, the inscription ”Hinenu Ve'Alinu - Ha'Hara!” (Here we are and we have climbed the mountain), a line taken from Chaim Nachman Bialik's poem ”Metei Midbar” (The Dead of the Desert). Kibbutz Kiryat Anavim was built in 1920 by pioneers from Ukraine who came to Israel on the boat ”Roslan”. It was the first Jewish settlement in the Judean Mountains. Bevingrad, Jerusalem, the end of the British Mandate. After the King David Hotel bombing on 22.7.1946, the British began to build a military complex surrounding the Russian Compound and the area near it on Jaffa Street. The Jews called the area ”Bevingrad” in the name of the British Minister of Foreign Affairs Ernst Bevin, whom they hated, and in memory of the fortifications of Stalingrad, which stood bravely during World War II. Children climbing on an armored vehicle that succeeded in breaking through to besieged Jerusalem. During the first months of the War of Independence, the armored vehicles were the only means of transportation that succeeded in bringing supplies to besieged Jerusalem. In April 1948, subsequent to Operation Nachshon and the building of the Burma Road to Jerusalem, the movement of the convoys to Jerusalem became continuous and safe. Condition: Very Good.