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Knesset Menorah Monument

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Knesset Menorah Monument
Knesset Menorah Monument
Knesset Menorah Monument
Knesset Menorah Monument
Knesset Menorah Monument
Knesset Menorah Monument
Knesset Menorah Monument
Knesset Menorah Monument
Knesset Menorah Monument
Knesset Menorah Monument
Knesset Menorah Monument
Knesset Menorah Monument
Knesset Menorah Monument
Knesset Menorah Monument
Knesset Menorah Monument
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| Lcated at the edge of Gan Havradim in front of the Knesset, Jerusalem 91950, Israel

The Knesset Menorah is a bronze Menorah 4.30 meters high, 3.5 meters wide, and weighs 4 tons. It is located at the edge of Gan Havradim opposite the Knesset. It was designed by Benno Elkan , a Jewish sculptor who escaped from his native Germany to Britain. It was presented to the Knesset as a gift from the Parliament of the United Kingdom on April 15, 1956 in honor of the eighth anniversary of Israeli independence. The Knesset Menorah was modeled after the golden candelabrum that stood in the Temple in Jerusalem. A series of bronze reliefs on the Menorah depict the struggles to survive of the Jewish people, depicting formative events, images and concepts from the Hebrew Bible and Jewish history. The engravings on the six branches of the Menorah portray episodes since the Jewish exile from Eretz Yisrael. Those on the center branch portray the fate of the Jews from the return to the land to the establishment of the State. It has been described as a visual textbook of Jewish history.
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