Organization of IDF Ground Forces in

Yom Kippur War

JUNE 7, 2019 ADMIN 1973 WAR

By the beginning of the 1973 war. The IDF, with full mobilization,
reached 350,000 soldiers (including the Air Force and Navy).
There were 6 armored divisions in the IDF, which combined 12
armored and 6 mechanized brigades, as well as a number of
other subunits. Two more armored brigades (274th and 500th)
were independent. In addition, there were 4 parachute (35th,
63rd, 247th and 317th) and 2 infantry (1st and 5th) brigades, 8
(?) Territorial (infantry) brigades and a large number of other
units. The total number of battalions was 176 (apparently, not
counting the artillery battalions and the air defense battalions).

About 3/4 consisted of reservists.

Regular Units

 Special Forces of General Staff (“Sayeret Matkal”);

 three district reconnaissance patrol battalions (GADSAR
– “Gdud Siyur (Pikudi)”) – “Egoz”, “Cheruv” and “Shaked”;
 the headquarters of the 252nd armored division;
 five armored brigades (7th, 14th, 188th, 401st and 460th
tank school); at the same time, in the 188th brigade
there were only two battalions (53rd and 74th), the third
(39th) was reservist;
 There were no regular mechanized brigades, but the 7th
armored brigade had the 75th mechanized infantry
battalion, and the 141st reserve mechanized infantry
battalion of the 204th reserve mechanized brigade had
one regular company (based on the personnel of the
Gimel company of the KMB tank troops (BATAR
HASHAN) in Rafah);
 one infantry brigade – the 1st Golani;
 one parachute brigade – the 35th;
 infantry brigade of officer school (BAAD-1);
 two district tank battalions (Gashap – “Gdud Shiryon
Pikudi”) – the 181st and 182nd;
 several infantry battalions of the Nahal;
 The 209th artillery regiment of the 252nd division (3 of
its 5 battalions – Shfifon, Reshef and 403rd Eyal) and
several other artillery battalions (55th Dragon, 334th,
 405th “Namer”, about two bttalions of the artillery
school – BAAD-9);
 a number of engineering units, including the 605th
battalion of the 626th regiment, engineering battalion of
the 252nd division, District engineering troops
(apparently, battalions).

Special Forces

Below is a list of the IDF special units (except for the 13th
flotilla and naval unit 707) – reconnaissance of the General Staff
and reconnaissance patrol battalions of military districts. In
brackets are the names of the units and their commanders.

 269th detachment – “Sayeret Matkal” – special recon

force of the General Staff (Lt.Col.Giora Zora, deputy –
Maj. Jonathan ‘Yoni’ Netanyahu)
 424th Recon Patrol Bn. YUVO (Sayeret Shaked; Lt.Col.
Moshe Spector)

 483rd Recon Patrol Bn. SVO (“Sayeret Egoz”; Lt.Col. Avi

Telem)
 484th Recon Patrol Bn. TSO (“Sayeret Kheruv”; Lt.Col.
Haim Oren (Ivan) – appointed commander 2 weeks after
the start of the war; before that commanded by the
deputy – Yair Klein)
 The special forces of the General Staff (subordinate to
the headquarters of the Chief Officer of the Infantry and
Parachutists) used the reconnaissance company of the
35th armored regiment.

Divisions

After the 1967 war, IDF converted from a brigade organization

to a divisional one. There used to be divisions earlier (in 1956 –
the 38th and 77th; in 1967 – the 31st, 36th, 38th and 84th), but
their functions were to coordinate the actions of the divisions of
the brigades, regiments and separate battalions (the so-called
“Ugda Masimatit”). The brigades were independent in terms of
logistic support and had their own artillery and engineering
units.

From 1967 to 1973, the number of armored divisions increased

from 4 to 6, and one division (252nd) became regular. At the
same time, the creation of the sixth division (210th) was
planned for 1974, but it was accelerated in May 1973 due to
increased tensions (“Konenut Kahol-Lyavan”). Most of the
divisions (except for brigades) were at the initial stage of
formation at the beginning of the war. In the same period, the
headquarters of the seventh division (440th) was created,
though without troops – initially its formation was planned for
the period after 1977. In the course of the war, two more
divisions were formed – “Koah Namer” and at the end of the war
“Koah Village”. The 440th Division, Koah Namer and Koah
Village, had subunits withdrawn from other divisions, formerly
independent units and the newly formed units.

To the war of 1973, organization of the armored division was as

follows:

 armored reconnaissance battalion;

 two armored brigades;
 mechanized brigade;
 artillery regiment;
 mechanized engineer battalion;
 communications battalion;
 the regiment of TO – in the composition of the supply
battalion (GahAS – “Gdud Haspak”), repair battalion
(GASAH – “Gdud Sheruty Himush”), medical battalion
(GARAP – “Gdud Refua”) and a number of individual
companies (chemical protection, military police and
military raminata ).

The regular composition of the six armored divisions was as

follows:

 36th: 134th armd.recce.bn., 179th armd.bde., 679th

armd.bde., 9th or 4th (??) mech.bde.;
 143rd: 87th armd.recce.bn., 421st armd.bde., 600th
armd.bde., 875th mech.bde.;
 146th: 288th armd.recce.bn., 205th armd.bde. 217 (?)
armd.bde, 670th mech.bde.;
 162nd: 279th (?) armd.recce.bn., 7th armd.bde., 460th
armd.bde., 11 mech.bde.;
 210th: ? armd.recce.bn., 188th armd.bde., 164th (?)
armd.bde., 4th or 9th (??) mech.bde.;
 252nd: 189th armd.recce.bn., 14th armd.bde., 401th
armd.bde., 204th mech.bde.
Two more armored brigades were separate: the 274th (intended
for the landing operation in the Gulf of Suez in the event of war)
and the 500th. The 460th brigade, being regular, was intended
to strengthen the 252nd division before the mobilization of
reserves.

Below is the actual composition of the divisions during the war,

including the combined divisions. In addition, the forces on the
border with Jordan and Lebanon, not organic to divisions. In
brackets are the names of division commanders, deputy division
commanders and a number of other posts. Ranks of
commanders of most divisions in 1973 was Lt.Gen. deputy
commanders of divisions Maj.Gen., chiefs of divisions
headquarters – Col., commanders of regiments and brigades –
Col., brigade deputy and battalion commanders – lieutenant
colonel; exceptions are highlighted.

 36th Division (Brig.Gen. Rafael ‘Raful’ Eitan; Deputy –

Brig.Gen.(res.) Menachem ‘Man’ Aviram (Abramovich)) –
fought on the northern front.
 134th armd.recce.bn. – transferred to the 179th
armd.bde.;
 7th Armd.Bde. (from the beginning of the war);
 188th armd.bde. (from the beginning of the war);
 679th armd.bde. (from the morning of 07.10.73);
 Koah Castel (from 17.10.73);
 parts of the 1st Infantry Bde.;
 parts of the 317th bde.;
 The 212nd artillery regiment;
 ? ingat battalion;
 ? bat st;
 ? regiment MOT.

 143rd Division (so-called “Hagdat Likud”; Ariel ‘Arik’

Sharon (Scheinerman); Deputy – Col. (since the end of
the war – Maj.Gen.) Yaakov ‘Jackie’ Even; Chief of Staff –
Gideon Altshuler; Head of Communications (“Katsin
Kesher”) – Col. David Maimon) – fought on the southern
front.
 87th rbrt baht;
 14th armd.bde. (since 10.10.73);
 35th division br (headquarters and 890th division
bat, from about 10/18/73);
 247 rd br (since 10.15.73);
  421st armd.bde. (since 10.10.73);
 600th armd.bde. (from 10.10.73; 10.17.73 in the
162nd division);
 214th artillery regiment;
 626th Ferry Engineering Regiment (since
10.15.73);
 229th (?) Ingb;
 ? bat st;
 ? regiment MOT.

 146th Division (Maj.Gen. Moshe ‘Musa’ Peled; Deputy –

Col. Avraham Rotem) – fought on the northern front,
immediately after the cease-fire was transferred to the
southern front.
 The 288th rbrt bat is composed of the 205th brt
br;
 the regular composition of the 300th division;
 4th fur bro (from the night of 07 / 08.10.73);
 9th fur bro (in the period 07-11.10.73);
 205th armd.bde. (until 10.10.73, then again from
10.17.73);
 The 670th fur brigade (since 10/08/73) –
approximately 10/14/73 is directly subordinated
to the NWO headquarters and was responsible
for the defense of the southern part of the Golan,
from the Jordanian border to Quneitra;
 213rd artillery regiment;
 ? ingat baht;
 ? bat st;
 ? regiment MOT.


 The 162nd Division (Abraham (Bren) Adan;
Deputy – Dov (Dubik) Tamari; Chief of Staff – Ami
Radian (according to another source – Asher
Levy)) – fought on the southern front; in
peacetime, most of the brigade headquarters
officers were officers of the Armored Forces
(“Heusot Shirion”) headquarters, and many
 others belonged to the training units (“Maarah
Hadraha”) of the IDF
 35th pd br (headquarters and 890th pd
baht, 10.16.10.73; then – 50th pd baht,
consisting of 217th and 460th brt br);
 204th fur bro (during 07.10.73);
 217th armd.bde. (from 07.10.73);
 274th armd.bde. (12-14.10.73);
 460th armd.bde. (from the evening of
07.10.73);
 500 th brt (from the evening of 07.10.73);
 600th br br (during 10/17/73);
 215th artillery regiment;
 271st (?) Baht;
 ? bat st;
 ? regiment MOT.


 210th Division (Dan Laner; deputy – Moshe Bar-
Kochba (Bril)) – fought on the northern front
 9th Mech (from 10.10.73; in the period of
08-11.10.73 – in the 146th division);
 179th armd.bde. (until 10.20.73 –
redeployed to the southern front);
 205th br (12-17.10.73);
 317 rd br (since 10.10.73);
 679th armd.bde. (from 10.10.73);
 282nd artillery regiment;
 ? ingat baht;
 ? bat st;
 ? regiment MOT.


 Utsbat Sinai 252nd Division (Abraham (Albert)
Mandler, died 10/13/73; then – Kalman Magen;
deputy (until 10/18/73) – Baruch (Pinko) hariel;
chief of staff (until 10/18/73) – Israel’s Colonel
Israel Granite (Grinker)) – fought on the southern
front.
  189th Armored Reconnaissance
Battalion (since the beginning of the war
in the 460th Brigade);
 275th Territorial Brigade
 11th fur bro (from midnight 23 /
10.24.73);
 14th Armored Brigade (06-07.10.73);
 164th armd.bde. (from 10/08/73);
 179th armd.bde. (from 10.22.73, arrived
from the northern front);
 401st Armored Brigade
 460th Armored Brigade (06-07.10.73);
 875th fur bro (07-18.10.73);
 The 5th infantry bat (after 10/24/73);
 The 209th artillery regiment;
 ? ingat baht;
 ? bat st;
 ? regiment MOT.


 The 440th (“Ugda Masimatit”) division
(Menachem (Mandi) Meron (Markovich), until
10/23/73) – fought on the southern
front. Initially, she was responsible for the
defense of the passes of Gidi and Mitle, then for
the defense of the area south of Mitla from the
Egyptian commandos, then for the defense of
the southern part of the front. In addition, in the
event of a landing operation in the Gulf of Suez
(“Or Yarok”), it was planned to entrust its
implementation to this division. Most of the
officers of the division headquarters were
instructors and cadets of the Command-Staff
College (PIP), the National Security College
(MABAL), and the training department of the
General Staff.
 35th division (in the period 06-15.10.73,
without the 50th baht; the 202nd baht is
subordinate to the 252nd division);
 274th brt br (at first one battalion, with
20 (?). 10.73 – all brigade);
 Koah Granit (since 10/18/73).

 Combined Division “Koah Namer” (also known as
“Koah Magen”, and then “Koah Sason”; Major
General (13.10.73 promoted to lieutenant
general) Kalman Magen; from 13.10.73 – Major
General Sason Itzhaki; deputy – Colonel Shmuel
Ahlbeck) – was formed on 10.10.73 on the basis
of the headquarters of the 275th territorial
brigade for the defense of the northern sector of
the southern front.
 11th fur bro (until 10/23/73);
 204th fur bro (from the evening of
07.10.73);
 274th armd.bde. (approximately in the
period 15-20.10.73);
 564th (66th) pd baht – from 247th pd br;
 Koah Lapidot;
 Koah Vilner;
 prefabricated artillery regiment
(Mifkedet Sioua).


 The combined division of Koah Sela (Ugdat
KATZKHAR) was created at the end of the war
to defend the Jable Attack and Jable Janif areas
(west bank of the Suez Canal) and block the 3rd
Egyptian army from the west.
 several infantry and parachute brigades,
including 9100th;
 tank unit;
 anti-tank battalions;
 units of the navy


 Command of the South Zone of Sinai (“Pikud
MARSHAL”) – formed 9.10.73 to simplify the
management of the Southern Front. In the
composition were:
  440th Division (see above) – in the period
from 10.15.73 to 10.23.73;
 The 72nd Territorial Brigade (Tuv’ya
(Tibi) Shapira) – until the creation of
Pikud MARSHAL 09.10.73, was
responsible for the defense of the south
of Sinai;
 “Koah Alon” (Arie Alon (Weinberg)) –
created 10/16/73 for the defense of Ras
Sudar;
 prefabricated artillery regiment
(“Mifkedet Siua Merhav Shlomo”);
 Note: at the beginning of the war, the
forces defending the area consisted of
two battalions of the 35th battalion
(202nd and 890th), two mouths of the
“Tiran” tanks, reconnaissance company
with 6 jeeps with a battlefield, a
company of the 424th rp bat “ Shaked “,
a battery of 120-mm mortar and three
battalions of HIM (” Heil Mishmar “).


 The forces of the Central Military District – with
the start of the war, the 146th Division of the
Central Military District (also a reserve of the
General Staff) was transferred to the Special
Defense Forces. The following brigades held the
defense of the border with Jordan (from Golan to
Eilat):
 Koah Moshe;
 The 5th Infantry of Givati - occupied the
defense of the northern part of the
Jordan Valley, up to the Tirat Zvi district;
 The 16th Jerusalem infantry bat (without
the 68th infantry bat, located on the
canal, and two guard battalions (HIM)
located in Judea and Samaria) occupied
the defenses of the southern part of the
Jordan Valley, from the Dead Sea to
Maale Ephraim; at the end of October
1973 transferred to the southern front;
  The 63rd (or 417th -?) Territorial Brigade
“Xativat ha-Bek’a” – occupied the
defense of the central part of the Jordan
Valley, in the area of Djiftalik;
 612th territorial brigade – occupied the
defense of the northern part of the
Jordan Valley, from the zone of the 5th
brigade to the Golan;
 9100-I infantry – defended the roads from
the Jordan Valley towards
Jerusalem; subsequently transferred to
the southern front;
 Negev district (“Makhoz Ha-Negev”) –
apparently, the reservist infantry team
“Xativat ha-Arava”, which defended from
the Dead Sea to the Eilat region;
 District Eilat (“Mahoz Eilat”) – 99th
infantry brigade, reinforced with tanks
and artillery; defended the Eilat
area; from 10/20/07, the 99th br – on the
southern front;
 182nd tan baht TSO (GAShAP);
 several divisions of guns and mortars.

 The border with Lebanon.

 District Miron (“Mahoz Miron”) – apparently, the
territorial brigade;
 reservists of the 300th division;
 The 483rd rg bat “Egoz” – until 09.10.73.

Brigades
 Comba
t tankers 1973 : Kahalani and Ben-Hanan

After 1967, the structure of armored brigades (Khativa

Meshurenet or Khavativ Sheron) from the balanced (two tank
and one motorized infantry battalion (HERMESH – Heil Raglim
Meshuryan)) turned into a pure tank: three tank
battalions. True, in each battalion there was a company of
motorized infantry, but even in regular battalions this company
was often reservist. Since all the commanders of tank
battalions were tankers, the level of training of motorized
infantry (and previously not the highest) fell to the limit. 120-
mm mortars were removed from the brigades, and many 81-mm
mortar platoons became reservist. In addition to the battalions,
the brigade included a jeep reconnaissance unit (apparently, 14
jeeps; in any case, there were so many in the reconnaissance of
the 500th brigade).

The structure of the mechanized brigades (“Khativa

Memukenet”) compared with 1967, did not change – each had a
tank battalion and two motorized infantry battalions, although
there were changes in the structure of tank battalions at the
platoon-company level. The situation with 120 mm mortars is
not entirely clear. In 1967 the mechanized brigade had a
battalion of self-propelled 120-mm mortars, moreover, each
battalion of the brigade had one battery of such mortars. Most
likely, in 1973, the battalion at the brigade level is preserved,
the battery at the battalion is not. Like the armored,
mechanized brigade had a jeep reconnaissance unit.

The tank battalion of armored brigades consisted of five

companies: three tank (11 tanks each: three platoons of 3
tanks, a tank of the company commander and a tank of the
deputy company commander), a motorized infantry and staff. In
addition, there were 3 additional tanks in the battalion,
incl. battalion commander and deputy. Thus, according to the
state, the battalion was supposed to have 36 tanks (in reality, it
was almost always less). At the brigade level, there were no
tanks (more precisely, they were distributed among the
battalions), so the armored brigade had 108 tanks throughout
the state.

Because of the cuts in each regular armored brigade, one tank

and two motorized infantry companies were reservist. For
example, in the 14th armored brigade in the 184th tank
battalion there were two tank companies and a motorized
infantry company, and in the 9th and 79th tank battalions there
were three tank companies each, and there was no motorized
infantry company.

The tank battalion of the mechanized brigades also had five

companies, four tank and one headquarters. The structure of
the tank company was the same as in the armored brigades, so
each such battalion (and the entire mechanized brigade) had 47
tanks (44 in companies and 3 additional) in the state.

The structure of a number of armored brigades differed from the

standard. Thus, the 7th Brigade had two tank and one
mechanized battalion. The 274th brigade had 5 battalions – 4
tank and 1 amphibious reconnaissance. The 500th brigade,
being separate, had in its composition a medical company.

The 460th Armored Brigade was a brigade of a tank school,

i.e. its personnel were instructors and cadets of this school, the
head of the school was the commander of the brigade, and the
head of the course was the commander of the battalions. The
brigade personnel belonged to 4 courses: tank commanders
(CAMAT – “Mefakdei Tankim Course”), officer armored troops
(KAKASH – “Kciney Shiryon Course”), BAAD-1 officer officer (i.e.,
IDF officer school – here future armor officers passed the first
stage of the officer course, to KAKASH) and the commanders of
the motorized infantry units (“Course MAKIM KHERMESH”). In
addition, the brigade consisted of an instructor of the course for
tank occupations (“Course Miktsoot”). The support staff was
partially staffed by the tank school, and partly from other AOI
schools – BAAD-7 (telecommunications operators), BAAD-10
(medical attendants). Each course had tanks of different types,
corresponding to the types of tanks that were in service with
the regular units of the AOI during the period. During the
transition to martial law, there was a “change of mouth”, in
order to create battalions of uniform type of tanks. Thus, the
battalion personnel turned out to be mixed and the names
“KAMAT battalion” or “KAKASH battalion” rather refer to the
posts of the battalion commanders of these battalions. The
third battalion consisted of instructors of the course of
professions of tankers, his battalion commander was the head
of the company commanders course (“Mem-Peim Course”).

So, in the 460th brigade there were three battalions:

 71st – “Course Miktsoot” – “Shot Kal” tanks;

 196th – KAKASH – MAGACH tanks (6 companies);
 198th – KAMAT – Shot Kal tanks (4 companies);
 “Koah Arik” – “Course MAKim HERMESH”, motorized
infantry (2 companies).

There are detailed data on the composition of the 198th

battalion at the time of the outbreak of war. In the early 70s
gg. KAMAT consisted of 4 companies – two “Shot” tanks (“Kaf”
and “Lamed”) and two “MAGACH” tanks (“Zain” and
“Het”). KAKASH also consisted of the mouth “Shot” and
“MAGAH”. The KAMAT battalion handed over the MAGAH
companies to the KAKASH battalion (and from there two
companies were transferred to the 79th tan bat. 401th br. Br),
receiving instead a company “Shot” from KAKASH (company
“Samekh”), and also a company “Shot “(Company” Mem “),
consisting of the management of a tank school (” Segel Madorim
“), instructors and cadets of the course of tank instructors (”
Course Madrikhim “).

 Headquarters: battalion commander (MAGAD – “Mefaked

Gdud”), operational officer (KAMBATS – “Katsin
Mivtsaim”; in fact – the chief of staff of the battalion),
intelligence officer (KAMAN – “Katsin Modiin”), officer of
 the arms service (chief of technical unit; “Katsin
Himush”), liaison officer (head of communications;
“Katsin Kesher”), head of personnel (“Shalish”), 3
operational sergeants (“Samal Mivtsaim”), a signalman
(“Kashar”) and a battalion foreman (RASAG – “Rav Samal
Gududi ”). There are no 2 more posts in the lists, typical
for the battalion headquarters – the zamkombat
(SAMGAD) and the supply officer (KAHAS – “Katsin
haspak”). The advanced battalion command post
(HAPAK – “Havurat Pikud Kidmit”) moved into 2 half-
tracked armored personnel carriers.
 Staff company. It included a repair platoon, a supply
platoon, a medical platoon (TAAGAD – “Tahanat Isuf
Gdudit”). On the basis of the repair platoon, a battalion
technical unit was created (HATAG – “Julia Tekhnit
Gdudit”), which had 2 half-tracked armored personnel
carriers and a commandan (“Nun-Nun”). To supply the
battalion there were two trucks with front-wheel drive
and two tankers. The brigade headquarters, located
near the battalion headquarters, had three more
ammunition trucks and two tankers.
 4 tank companies – 44 tanks: 12 each in Kaf and Lamed,
11 in Samekh, 9 in Mem; in addition, another 2 crews
from the 77th brt baht the 7th brt br, remaining in Sinai
after the 7th brigade was transferred to the Golan). The
technical units (departments) of the company (HATAP –
“Julia Tehnit Plugatit”) moved on the B11 M113. Each
such link consisted of a commander, an armored
personnel carrier driver, a medical attendant, an
electrician, a tower technician, a communication
system technician, and 2-4 mechanics.

The infantry and parachute brigades had 3 infantry (or

parachute) battalions, a number of individual companies
(reconnaissance, anti-tank, engineering, communications), as
well as a division of 120-mm towed mortars. In the case of a
large landing operation, paratroop brigades received
reinforcement in the form of battalions of 122-mm howitzers D-
30. In addition, in the regular brigades (in the 1st and 35th), as
well as in the Nakhal, there were two additional battalions – the
course of the branch commanders (“Course MAKim”, MAK –
“Mefaked Kit”) and the battalion of the brigade training base
(BAH – “Basim Imunim Hativati”), i.e. the battalion of the KMB
brigade (“Gdud Tironim”; consisted of instructors (“Segel”) and
recruits (“Tironim”)). In 1967 the reconnaissance company of
the 80th paratrooper brigade was armed with 10
reconnaissance jeeps, 5 anti-tank jeeps (106-mm BO) and 4
commanders.

There were 6 companies in the parachute battalion battalions

(in any case, there were so many battalions in the 55th brigade
in 1967): headquarters, fire support and 4 parachute
parachutes. The company of fire support consisted of a platoon
of bombers, reconnaissance, mortar (6 81 mm), anti-tank (jeeps
with 106 mm BO) and heavy machine guns (12.7 mm М2НВ).

In addition to armored, mechanized, parachute and infantry

brigades in the composition of the AOI there were so-
called. “Territorial brigades” (terb; HATMAR – “Xativa
Merhavit”), responsible for the defense of certain areas. Each
such brigade has its headquarters and a logistic support system
in peacetime, but it does not have combat units — it receives
them from regular or reservist brigades. The HATMAR
headquarters is regular. After mobilization HATMAR turns into
an infantry (or parachute, as the 63rd) brigade. In the event that
there are no hostilities in the HATMAR zone, such an infantry
brigade continues to defend its zone, or it transfers it to some
other brigade, and it is transferred to one of the fronts.

The 16th Jerusalem Infantry Brigade, the so-called. “District

Brigade” (“Khavamat Makhoz”). Almost all the personnel of the
brigade – the inhabitants of Jerusalem. It consists of a number
of individual companies, four infantry battalions, an anti-tank
battalion, a 120-mm mortar battalion, four security battalions
(“HIM – Heil Mishmar” – were recruited by older reservists and
intended only for security and defense actions) and the
Jerusalem Civil Defense District (“Makhos hAGA”). Such a
composition is due to historical reasons. Until 1967 Jerusalem
was connected to the rest of the State of Israel by a narrow
corridor and could be easily blocked. In 1973 the situation was
different, but the structure of the brigade was preserved. In
peacetime, the brigade was responsible for security in Judea
and in southern Samaria. By the way, in 1967. the brigade was
somewhat larger – it included a separate tank company of
increased size (22 Sherman M-50 tanks) and a division of 25-
pound (87.6-mm) guns. By 1973 These units in the brigade was
not (and the 25-pound guns by that time were already
completely removed from service).
Khavativ Ha-Arava and Khavativ Eilat were also “District
Brigades” (Mahoz Ha-Negev and Mahoz Eilat,
respectively). There is no data on their structure, but it is clear
that they were much smaller than the 16th brigade.

Below is a list of all brigades. For each brigade, both its regular
battalions and the battalions of other brigades and individual
battalions that fought in it during the war are listed. The names
of the commanders are given for regular battalions. In the event
that a regular battalion was transferred to another brigade, this
is indicated twice – both for the “donor” brigade and the
“recipient” brigade.


 1st Infantry Brigade “Golani” (Amir Drori,
wounded 10/22/73, then – Lieutenant Colonel
Yehuda Peled, wounded 10/22/73, then – brigade
operations officer Yoav Golan; deputy – Reuven
(Ruvka) Eliaz, died 10/10/73; then -?)
 reconnaissance (Major Shmaryahu Vinik,
died 10/22/73);
 12th Infantry Bn. “Barak” (Lt.Col.Yaakov
Shahar (Shvartsburd), died 09/10/73; then
-?);
 13th Infantry Bn. “Gideon” (Zeev Oren
(Unger)) – from 10.17.73 in Koah Kastel;
 17th Infantry Bn. “Araiot ha-Golan” (Dov
“Dubi” Dror, died 8.10.73; then – David
Katz) – a course of section commanders
(MAKIM) “Golani”;
 51st infantry Bn. “ha-Bok’im ha-Rishon”
(Miki Kohen; then — Yehuda (Yudka)
Peled, wounded 10/22/73);
 ? th Infantry Bn. – Bach Battalion
“Golani”.


 4th Mech.Bde. “Kiryati” (Yaakov Hadar (Fefer),
deputy – Abraham Nerfan) – from about 10/10/73,
the brigade consisted of three armd.bn.s
(including recce.bn.) and two furs baht.
 ? th tan baht (Yaakov Neufeld, died
10/12/73; then -?) – transferred the 9th
brt br 12 (?). 10.73;
  ? th fur bat (?);
 ? th fur bat (?);
 39th tank bn. – from the 188th brt br;
 61st tank bn. – from 205th brt br;
 288th rbrt bat of the 146th division, from
11 (?). 10.73;
 Koah Nati – from the middle of the war;
 Note: one of the brigade battalions is
the 95th.


 5th Infantry Brigade “Givati” (Arieh Ilon
(Weinberg) – became the commander of Koach
Ilon; then – Yehuda Golan (Ashenfeld)) – by the
beginning of the war was at the stage of
reshaping from infantry into mechanized
brigade; during the war was infantry brigade.


 7th Armored Brigade (Col. Avigdor “Janush” Ben-
Gal).
 reconnaissance – attached to the 75th
mech baht;
 71st Tnk.Bn. – from 460th Armd.Bde.;
 74th Tnk.Bn. – from 188th Armd.Bde.;
 75th Mech.Bn. (Yosef “Yossi” Eldar,
deputy Maj. Yossi Melamed);
 77th Tank Bn. “Oz” (Lt.Col. Avigdor
Kahalani); – 44 tanks

 82nd Tank Bn. “Gaash” (Maj. (according

to another source – lieutenant colonel)
Haim Barak) – 33 tanks – 6.10.73
transferred to the 188th Armd.Bde.; the
Gimel company of this battalion
(commander – captain Meir Zamir (Tiger))
gained fame as “Koah Tiger”;
 “Koah Ben-Hanan” – from 10.10.73, from
188th armd.bde.;
 combined tank bn. (Amos Katz) – from a
tank school, from 10.10.73.


 9th Mech.Brigade “Oded” (Mordechai (Motke)
Ben-Porat, deputy – Zofer Zamir).
 reconnaissance;
 ? th tan baht (Ben-Zion Padan);
 ? th tan baht – from 10/13/73, from the
4th fur bro;
 11th baht fur (Dov Elpenboym) – from 14
(?). 10.73 to 670th fur brigade;
 91st (?) Mech bat (Moshe Egozi, died
10/19/73);
 The 278th tan baht – from 10/7/73, from
the 179th br. Br.


 11th Mechanized Brigade “Yiftakh” (Aharon
Peled (Pelda), deputy – Mordezai Lahav).
 reconnaissance;
 ? th tan baht (Yehoshua Raviv);
 ? th fur baht (Gdalia Gal);
 ? th fur bat (Zeev Litman);
 126th brt baht – from 10/08/73, from
217th brt br;
 279th rbrt baht – from 10/08/73, from the
162nd (?) Division;
 Note: one of the brigade battalions is
the 128th.


 14th Armored Brigade (Amnon “Idzek” Reshef) –
the regular armored battalions were the 9th,
52nd and 184th.
 9th Tank Battalion “Eshet” (Yom-Tov
Tamir) – 34 tanks. initially under 275th
Ter.Bde. In battles on 06-07.10.73 the
battalion lost almost all its tanks and
was disbanded; revived after the cease-
fire 24.10.73;
 52nd Tank Battalion “ha-Bok’im”
(Imanuel Sakal) – 32 tanks. 6.10.73
transferred to the 401st Armored
Brigade.
 79th tan baht – from 401st brt br (after
injuring the battalion commander merged
 with the 196th tan bat; revived 10/16/73,
based on the tanks of the 196th tan bat);
 87 rbrt bat – from the 143rd division;
 The 88th amphibious rbrt bat – from 19
(?). 10.73, from the 274th brt br;
 184th Tank Battalion “Bazak” (Shaul
Shalev, died 09/10/73, then – Abraham
Almog); 22 tanks. two companies.

 196th tan baht – from 460 th brt br (after

injuring Mitsna, 10/16/73 the battalion
was abolished, its number was
transferred to Koach Lapidot, 460 th brt
br, and tanks – to the revived 79 th tan
bat);
 front bat “Koah Shmulik” – on 10.15.73;
 The 407th tan baht – from the 600th brt
br, from the evening of 10/15/73 (10/16/73
disbanded, its tanks became part of the
14th brt br);
 The 424th infantry bat “Shaked” – on
10/15/73;
 582 pd reconnaissance bat – from 317 pd
br – on 10/15/73.


 16th Jerusalem District (“Xtivat Makhoz”) Pekh
br (Zeev Ofer (Gershfeld)).
 62nd Infantry Bn. (?);
 68th Infantry Bn. (Amir Reuven) – as of 6
October 1973 was located along the
canal;
 161st Infantry Bn. (?);
 163rd Infantry Bn. (?);
 ? th anti-tank bat (?);
 ? th detachment 120 mm mortar (?);
 security bat (HIM);
 security bat (HIM);
 security bat (HIM);
 security bat (HIM);
 Jerusalem’s civil defense area (“Mahoz
HAAGA”);
 Note: in 1967 The brigade consisted of
a reconnaissance company (Sayeret-90):
 125 fighters with 13 jeeps and 7 half-
tracked armored personnel carriers, an
engineering company and a medical
company. It can be assumed that these
companies were part of the brigade in
1973;
 Note 2: Numbers 3 of the 4 battalions of
the Khim in 1967: the 495th, 962th and
963rd.


 35th (in 1956 – 202th) Parachute Brigade (Uzi
Yairi; deputy – Amnon Lipkin-Shahak).
 reconnaissance (captain Shaul Mofaz) –
subordinate to the General Staff;
 engineering company (captain Shimion
Nave);
 medical company;
 50th pd baht Nahal (“Nakhal mutsnakh”;
Major Yoram Yair (Yaya));
 202nd baht baht (Doron Rubin);
 890th battalion baht (Itzhak (Itzik)
Mordechai);
 “Koah Asaf” (Asaf Hefetz) – infantry bat
BACH;
 “Koah Shmulik” (Major (or Lieutenant
Colonel) Shmuel Arad) – a combined bat
(a company of the 890th bat, a company
of the 202 baht; according to another
source – two companies of the brigade
commanders) the composition of the
143rd division;
 The 342nd Division 120-mm mortar
throwers (Yaakov Tzur).


 63rd (or 417th -?) Territorial Brigade (wd)
“Hativat ha-Bek’a” (Amos Madroni) – Jordan
Valley; the Cherub battalion and several reserve
battalions were subordinated to it. With the
beginning of the war, the brigade was to transfer
responsibility for the area of another part, and
itself act as a brigade. In practice, the brigade
remained in its place, transferring a number of
 its units to the southern front and receiving
other units instead.
 484th rp bat “Cherub” – at the end of the
war – on the southern front;
 48th baht batch (Shimion Kahaner
(Kacha)) – 247th bd transferred;
 ? rd baht


 72nd Territorial Brigade (Tuv’ya “Tibi” Shapira) –
until 09.10.73 was responsible for the defense of
the south of Sinai.


 99th Territorial Brigade — see below, “Eilat
region”;


 164th (1967 – 10th) Armd.Bde. “Harel” (Abraham
Barjam (hershkowitz); from 10.10.73 – Major
General Baruch (Pinko) Harel; the deputy –
Yaakov Ziso, wounded ?? ..73.73; then – Amnon
Eshkol) – most of the soldiers of the brigade
were students of the so-called. “Contractual
yeshivas” (“Yeshivot hesder”). In fact, on
October 10, 1973, the brigade split into two
parts – the headquarters and one of the
battalions united with the 875th Mech brigade
and held the front on the east bank of the
channel against the 3rd Egyptian army, the other
two battalions commanded by Pinko and fought
on its west bank.
 reconnaissance;
 ? th tan bat (Moshe Gal, wounded ??.
10.73; then Major Haim Ziv (Zelozer or
Zalosetser), died 10/24/73);
 ? th tan baht (Amnon Eshkol);
 ? th tan baht (hagai kohen);
 Note: in 1967 the battalion numbers of
the brigade (then – the 10th fur) were 95
(tan bat), 104 (bat fur) and 106 (bat
fur). The number of the reconnaissance
company is 41 (“Yehidat Siyur-41”).

 179th (1956–67 gg. – 37th) Armd.Bde. (Ran Sarig,
wounded 10/07/73; then Gideon Tsimbal, 10/8/73
died; then – Major General Moshe Bar-Kochba
(deputy division commander 210 Division);
Deputy – Gideon Zimbal, 10/8/73 died). 10/16/73
brigade assigned to regroup in the area of Nafah
and 10/20/73 sent to the southern front.
 reconnaissance;
 96th Tan Bat (Israel Levin, wounded
10/07/73; then – Gideon Tsimbal, 10/8/73
died; then – Captain Giora Birman
(Biran));
 134th rbrt bat of the 36th division;
 The 266th tan bat (Uzi Mohr, wounded
10/07/73) – 10/7/73, after heavy losses,
including the wounding of the battalion
commander and the death of the castle,
the battalion ceased to exist until the
end of the war, his tanks poured into 679
th br;
 The 278th tan baht (Yossi Amir) – from
10.10.73 as part of the 9th Mech br.


 188th (in 1956 – the 18th, in 1967 – the 45th)
Armored Brigade “Barak” (Col. Yitzhak Ben-
Shoham, 7.10.73 died; after midday Oct 7th ,
Yoav Vaspi (72 tanks, Centurions), then after Oct
8 Col. Yossi Ben Hanan commanded remnants of
the 188th , which was put under command of the
7th Brigade. This unit was known as Ben Hanan
Force then, from 16.10.73 – lieutenant colonel
(or colonel) Dan Vardi wounded ??. 11.73; then –
Colonel Amos Katz; deputy – David Israeli,
10/07/73 died; then, from 10.10.73 – reserve
lieutenant colonel Symha Apelboym; chief of
staff – captain Beni Katsin). By 10/08/73 the
brigade ceased to exist for several days, the
remnants of its tanks fought as part of the 7th
br. Br. During the war, Koach Zvika was
particularly famous – 1-2 tanks under the
command of captain Zvi (Zwika) Gringold. The
 brigade was restored by Dan Vardi after the
cease-fire.
 39th Tnk.Bn. (Col. Yoav Vaspi, died
16.10.73; killed in action against 9th Div
Oct 19th, then Lt.Col. Haim Porat) – as
part of the 4th mech.bde.;
 53rd Tnk.Bn. “Sufa” (Maj. Oded Erez);
 74th Tnk.Bn. “Saar” (Lt.Col.Yair Nafshi) –
from 10.10.73 in the 7th armd.bde;
 82nd tan baht – from the 7th brt br, from
10/6/73;
 “Koah Ben-Hanan” (Yosef (Yossi) Ben-
Hanan, seriously wounded on 10/12/73) –
team tan bat, created 10/09/73 from the
remnants of the brigade, in the 7th bert
br.


 204th (in 1956 – 27th, in 1967 – 60th),
Mechanized Brigade (Zvi Ram (Rami), deputy –
David Ron (Suliymani)).
 reconnaissance (Major Roni Shiloh);
 The 19th tan bat (Haim Adini, wounded;
then – Major Yakov Zaire) – from 10.10.73
in the 460th brt br, in the period of 20-
22.10.73 – in the 217th brt br;
 The 86th Baht fur (Nahum Baruhi) – from
10/8/73 to 460th brt br;
 141st baht fur (Haim Rosenblit);
 units of infantry, paratroopers, tanks and
artillery (after 08.10.73).


 205th (in 1967 – the 200th) Armd.Bde. “Egrof ha-
Barzel” or “Egrof ha-Plada” (Yosef (Yossi,
“Japka”) Peled (Mendelevich), deputy – Simha
Apelbaum).
 reconnaissance;
 The 61st tan bat (Moshe Meler, wounded
19 (?). 10.73) from 10/7/73 in the 4th
Mezzanine;
 94th Tan Bat (Guy Jacobson);
 125th tan bat (Tuv’ya Toren (Tron), died
10/16/73; then – Major David Caspi);
  The 288th battalion of battalion of the
146th division – in the period of 07-
11.10.73.


 217th Armd.Bde. (Natan “Natke” Nir (haberfeld);
deputy – Heike Giora, wounded ??. 10.73; then –
Giora Kupel).
 reconnaissance;
 19th tan baht – from the 204th fur bar, in
the period of 20-22.10.73;
 50th baht baht – from 35th bd, at the end
of the war;
 The 113th tan bat (Asaf Yaguri, captured
10/08/73; then – Major Shmuel (Mule)
hermet, died 10/10/73; then – Zeev Ram);
 126th tan baht (? – not confirmed) –
transferred to the 11th fur bar;
 The 134th tan bat (Natan Piram,
wounded ??. 10.73; then – Guy Koghba);
 The 142nd tan bat (Giora Kupel,
wounded ??. 10.73; then – Major Micha
Kgel);
 The 484th rp bat (“Sayeret Cheruv”) – in
the period of October 22-24, 1973;
 front company (? Benzi Wiener) – since
the beginning of the war.


 247th (in 1967 – 55th) Parachute Brigade (Dani
Mat, deputy – Yehuda Bar (Yud-Byte), Arik
Ahmon).
 reconnaissance (Uzi Lavita);
 Engineering Company (Avik Tamir);
 48th baht baht – from the 63rd ter (bd) br;
 57th baht baht – from 317th bd;
 The 416th (in 1967 – the 28th) front bat
(Zviki Nir) – on 10.24.73 in 460th brt br;
 564th (in 1967 – 66th) pd baht (Yosef
(Yossi) Jafe, wounded 10/24/73) –
10/24/73 in the 500th brt br;
 The 565th battalion (1967 – 71st) bat
(Dan Ziv) – part of the battalion (led by
 the deputy commander Uzi Eilat) fought
separately, as part of the 162nd division;
 Note: during the forcing period (from the
night of 10/16/10/73), a reduced front bat
(Yosef Fredkin) was in charge of the
defense of the bridgehead area; perhaps
it consisted of the forces of the 247th br,
or parts attached to it.


 274th Armd.Bde. (Yoel Gonen (Gorodish), deputy
– Akiva Karmi); in the period 07-12.10.73 brigade
(three battalions) was a reserve of the Southern
Military District.
 The 25th tan bat (Itzhak Piryam,
wounded ??. 10.73; then – Amitai Sar);
 The 88th amphibious (10-15 BTR-50 and
5-6 PT-76) rbrt bat “Dov Lavan” (Yosef
(Yosle) Yudovich) – at the beginning of
the war was in Sharm el-Sheikh, from 19
(?). 10.73 in the 14th brt br;
 227th tan bat (Uri Berez, wounded ??.
10.73; then – Shlomo Peled);
 The 228th tan bat (Shlomo Sarig
(Schichter));
 453rd (?) Tan baht (Abraham Madliah) –
was in Sharm el-Sheikh during the war;
 ? th infantry bat – out of? th? br – c 17
(?). 10.73;
 Koah Lapidot – 10/06/10/73, from 460 th
brt br.


 275th Territorial Brigade (Pinchas “Elosh” Noah
(Naidik)) – north of Sinai (headquarters – in
Baluza); 10/07/73 on the basis of the brigade
headquarters created “Koah Nemer”. Below are
the parts subordinated to the brigade at the time
of the outbreak of war.
 9th brt baht 14th brt br;
 68th infantry bat; 16th infantry battalion;
 ? th Art Division “Shfifon”;
 company of the 424th rp bat “Shaked”.

 317th (in 1967. – 80th) Reserve Parachute
Brigade (Haim Nadel, wounded after 10.24.73;
then – Tsuri Sagi (Shinkin); the deputy – Mara
Elami).
 57th baht baht (Ephraim Bernad) – 247th
bd;
 65th baht baht (Hezi Shelah);
 The 98th (or 567th -?) Front bat (Elisha
Shalem);
 582nd SD reconnaissance bat (Natan
Shunari)
 the battalion included a reconnaissance
company and an anti-tank company (106-
mm BO in jeeps) of the brigade,
therefore, in many sources this battalion
is called “anti-tank reconnaissance”;
 Note: in one of the sources mentioned
417 th baht baht (sweep Kuneutra 317 th
br). Perhaps the numbers “57”, “65” and
“98” are the old numbers of battalions of
the brigade, i.e. numbers for 1967; then,
by analogy with the 247th license, the
new numbers are “417”, “567”,
etc. Moreover, in 1973. There was the
57th tan baht in the 679th br. br.


 345th Infantry Brigade (Shmuel Alvek) –
established immediately after the war, based in
the Rafidim area of Sinai.


 401st Armored Brigade (Dan Shomron).
 reconnaissance;
 46th tan baht (David Shuval);
 52nd tan baht – from 10/6/73, from the
14th brt br;
 79th tan bat “Sufa” (Shlomo (Moni)
Nitsani, wounded 10/07/73; from 10/16/73
– Major Nathan Ben-Ari) – from 10/6/73 in
the 14th br, received two companies
from the 196th tan bat 460 th brt
br; after wounding the battalion
 commander 10/7/73 fused with the 196th
tan bat, revived again 10/16/73;
 195th tan bat (Uzi Lev-Zur (Lanzner)).


 421st Armored Brigade (Chaim Erez, deputy –
Israel Saar (Potes)); This brigade became the
first BRL to force the canal, so later it was
called Hativat Ha-Tsliha.
 reconnaissance;
 257th tan bat (Shimon Ben-Shushan);
 264th tan bat (major (or lieutenant
colonel) Giora Lev);
 599th tan baht (major (or lieutenant
colonel) Ami Morag).


 460th Armored Brigade “Utsbat Bnei Or” of the
tank school (Gabriel (Gabi) Amir, the deputy –
Shila Sason).
 The 19th tan baht – from the evening of
07.10.73, from the 204th fur br, (20-
22.10.73 – to the 217th brt br);
 50th baht baht – from 20 (?). 10.73, from
35th bd;
 71st Tank (or Mech.) Battalion (Mishulam
Carmel (Retes), died 10.10.73 (or 9 Oct.)
at Valley of Tears) – from 10.10.73 in the
7th armd.bde; – 30 tanks – after Oct
9th Lt.Col Amos Katz, who has returned
from the USA. The 71st included Jews
returning from abroad and wounded
soldiers that have recovered during the
war. Hence 71st was called Katz Force.

 86th Mech baht – from 10/8/73, out of the

204th mech bbr (perhaps, from 10/8/73
the battalion was in the 162nd division,
but it joined the 17th brigade (?). 10.73);
 100th tan baht (Ehud Barak) – formed
during the war;
 189th rbrt bat of the 252nd division
(since the beginning of the war);
  196th tan baht (Amram Mitsna, wounded
10/16/73; then – Yaakov Lapidot) – 06-
16.10.73 – at the 14th britter br (after the
wounding of Mitsna, the 196th tan baht
in the 14th brt br abolished, the number
referred to Koah Lapidot);
 The 198th tan bat (Amir Yafe) – 06-
07.10.73 divided into two reduced
battalions – “Koah Amir” (Amir Yafe) and
“Koah Sason” (Shilo Sason); 08-11.10.73
– in the 500th br; br;
 The 271st combat brigade of the 162nd
(?) Division – from 18 (?). 10.73;
 416th (28th) pd baht – on 10/24/73, out of
247th pd br;
 430th tan baht – in the period of 08-
11.10.73, from the 500th brt br;
 “Koah Arik” – 2 motorized infantry
companies;
 “Koah Lapidot” (Yaakov Lapidot) – tan
baht, consisting of three mouths of 196th
tan baht (after injuring Mitsna, 10/16/73
and abolishing 196th tan baht in the 14th
britter, “Koah Lapidot” was called 196th
tan baht); 06-10.10.73 – to the 274th br.
Br.


 500th Armored Brigade (Arieh Keren, deputy –
Yitzhak Carmeli, wounded) – the brigade
commander was the commander of the Tseelim
test site, part of the personnel was the
command staff of this test site.
 reconnaissance (captain Yossi Sidon);
 medical company (captain Menachem
Stern);
 198th tan bat – 08-11.10.73, out of 460th
brt br;
 The 429th tan baht (Dan Sapir, died
10/08/73; then major Arieh Arzi, died
10/21/73; then major Yitzhak Rabin) –
10/17/10/73 – in the 274th br 460 th brt
br;
  430th tan bat “Saara” (Eliashiv Shimshi)
– 8/11/10/73 in 460 th brt br;
 433rd Tan Bat (Nahum Zaken);
 564th (66th) pd baht – from 247th pd br,
10.24.73.


 600th Armored Brigade “Netiwei ha-Esh” (Tuvia
Raviv; deputy — Yehuda Bahar, wounded 10/9/73,
then Moshe Nahurai).
 reconnaissance (captain Beni Telmi);
 407th tan bat (Major Oved Maoz,
wounded; from 10.15.73 – Major Ishiyahu
(Shia) Beitel, wounded at night 15 /
16.10.73); from 10.10.73 on the evening
of the 14th brt br; after heavy casualties
on the night of 15 / 16.10.73, the
battalion was disbanded until the end of
the war, the 9 remaining tanks became
part of the 14th brt;
 409th Tan Bat (Major Uzi Ben-Itzhak);
 410th tan baht (Amnon Marton, wounded
10/09/73; then – Yehuda Bahar, injured
10/09/73; then – Major Haim Elkin; from
10/10/10/73 – Major Yehuda Geler).


 612th Territorial Brigade “Carmeli” (Ihezkel
Ravid (Treiber)) – north of the Jordan Valley,
adjacent to the south of Golan; Headquarters – in
Tsemah.


 670th Mech. Brigade (Gideon Gordon, deputy –
Yigal Reuven) – from about 10/14/73 turned into a
reinforced brigade defending the south of the
Golan, and on 07.11.73 it was redeployed to the
south, to the 252nd division (with th mech baht
in the 205th brt br, received in return for the? th
tan baht, and then was reinforced? th mb bat
(Menashe Anber, tanks “Tiran”)).
 reconnaissance;
 The 11th baht fur – from 14 (?). 10.73,
from the 9th brigade;
  58th baht fur (Dov Keli);
 83rd baht fur (Uri Atzmon);
 181st tan baht – from 10/10/73, GASHAP
SVO;
 The 268th tan baht (Tuvya Leshem) –
from 10.10.73 in Koah Moshe;
 ? -th Division 120-mm mortars (Israel
Shani);
 prefabricated artillery regiment with 14
(?). 10.73.


 679th Armored Brigade (Ori Or) – the soldiers of
the brigade were young reservists, including
students of “contractual yeshivs” and fighters of
the Nakhal, who underwent retraining for
tankers.
 57th Tan Bat (Moshe Charles);
 The 93rd tan bat (Ran Gottfried,
wounded 10/7/73);
 The 289th tan bat (Rafulle Schaefer);
 Note: according to one of the sources,
the battalion commander of one of the
battalions, Lieutenant Colonel Amnon
Rimon (Greenboym), was killed, two
other battalions were injured;
Apparently, Rimon replaced one of the
above commanders, who was injured.


 820th Territorial Brigade “Alexandroni” (Zvi Bar
(Barazani), deputy – Pinchas (Piña) Cooperman) –
Golan (therefore this brigade was also called
“Golan”); in addition to holding the line of
contact with the Syrians, the brigade was
responsible for the territorial defense (HAGMAR
– “Nagana Merhavit”) of the settlements, as well
as for the artillery deployed on the Golan
(commander of the artillery of the brigade
commander of the 334th artillery battalion
permanently stationed on the Golan); battalions
are listed at the start of the war.
 The 13th Infantry Bat from the 1st
Infantry Bat Golani;
  50th Infantry Bat from the 35th br;
 55th Art Division “Dragon”, 2 batteries
(Shraga Ben-Zvi);
 334th Arty.Bn. (Col. Arieh Shaham
(Schwartz)); Had two 160mm self-
propelled mortar batteries and a 155mm
SPG battery
 405th Arty.Bn. Namer;
 Arty.bn. of BAAD-9 artillery school
cadets (Ben-Ami Kohen).


 875th (in the past – 8th) Mech.Brigade (Arie
Dayan (Biru), wounded 10/18/73; then – Abraham
Bar-Am (hershkovits)).
 ? th tan baht (?);
 89th baht fur (?);
 ? -th fur bat (?).


 9100th Infantry Brigade (Shmuel “Shmulik”
Pressburger) was created within 48 hours
immediately after the start of the war from
soldiers and officers who for various reasons
were not assigned to other units (“Maagar”). A
significant number of its fighters came from the
military base and other elite units, so this
brigade is often called “Xativa 9100 HIRAM”
(HIRAM – “Heil Raglim Meule” – “excellent
(selective) infantry”). At the beginning, the
brigade was in the Central Military District, then
on the southern front (it was planned to use it in
the operation to take Port Said and Port Faud,
perhaps – as part of Koah Sela), then the brigade
was divided (headquarters and one of the
battalions sent to the northern the front, another
battalion – sent to the zone of the Gulf of Suez,
the third – fought on the west bank of the Suez
Canal). After the cease-fire, the brigade was
again concentrated on the southern front within
the framework of Koah Sela.
 infantry bat (Matan Vilnai) – came from
the front br;
  infantry bat (?) – emigrants from br and
Nakhal;
 infantry bat (?) – consisted of 450
officers.


 Negev district (“Makhoz Ha-Negev”; Yehuda
Mitel (Mitelman)) – Territorial Brigade “Hativat
ha-Arava”, possibly – reinforced.


 District Eilat (“Makhoz Eilat”; Uri Bidets) – 99th
Territorial Brigade, reinforced with tanks and
artillery.


 Miron district (“Mahoz Miron”; Tsuri Sagi
(Shinkin), at the end of the war – the commander
of the 317th division) – the border with Lebanon.


 Nakhal. In 1973 there was no infantry brigade
of the Nakhal, but there was a command of the
Nakhal (“Pikud ha-Nakhal”; the commander was
Colonel Asher Dar (Dreyzin)), which included the
following infantry battalions:
 The 50th baht of the bat “Nakhal
Mutsnakh” (Major Yoram Yair (I-I)) – in
the 35th bd;
 904th – settlement (“Gdud ha-hahzuyot”);
 906th – a course of branch commanders
(“MAKIM”) of Vakhal;
 908th – course KMB Nahal (“Gdud
Tironim”);
 Apparently, several more battalions (for
example, in 1967 there existed the 903rd
baht and 907th baht).


 “Koah Moshe” (Moshe (Moshe) Yosef) – team
anti-tank brigade
 268th tan baht 670th fur br;
  anti-tank units (apparently, a company of
106-mm recoilless rifles from the
composition of the brigades).


 “Koah Kastel” (Yosef (Yoske) Kastel) – team
brigade, created 10/17/73 in the 36th division for
the defense of Tel-Shams.
 The 13th Infantry Bat, the 1st Infantry of
Golani;
 ? th tan baht;
 engineering company.


 “Koah Alon” (Arie Alon (Weinberg)) – a team of
two tank battalions, a paratroopers battalion
and a 120-mm mortar unit.


 Koah Bishop (Haim Benyamini) – part of the
officer school (BAAD-1). In the course of the war,
they were on the southern front, in particular,
they defended the front command post (Dvela,
on Mount Um-Hashib).
 Koah Granit (Israel Granit (Grinker)) – reinforced
brigade, created on 10.10.73 as part of the 440th
division (part of the 875th br defense, battalion of the
164th brt br, strength of the 52nd battalion , reduced
artillery regiment). Apparently, on October 22, 73, the
brigade headquarters was disbanded, and its units were
merged into the 440th division.

Separate battalions

Below are several battalions that were separate before the war
or formed during the war. These battalions were separate in
peacetime states, during the war they usually fought as part of
various brigades. Commanders – in the rank of lieutenant
colonel. It is known that during the war and immediately after it
(approximately until mid-November) 6 tank battalions were
formed (18 mouths of tanks and 4 motorized infantry
companies), 4 infantry battalions (3 of them are apparently
battalions of the 9100th brigade) 3 anti-tank battalion.
District tank battalions (GAShAP). Their existence is due to
historical reasons. Until 1967 In the IDF there was one regular
armored brigade – the 7th, belonging to the Southern Military
District. Therefore, separate tank battalions (one per district)
were created as part of the SVO and TsVO, so that in peacetime
there would be at least some regular tank unit in these districts.

 The 181st tan baht SVO (Reuven Ben-Alon) – from the

night of 10 / 11.10.73 at the 670th fur bar;
 The 182nd tan bat of the Central Military District (?) –
during the war was on the defensive in the Jordan
Valley.

Reconnaissance armored battalions of armored divisions

(GADSAR – “Gdud Siyur (Meshuryan)”). Each of the 6 IDF
armored divisions had such a battalion. The state-owned
battalion had 2 tank companies (21 tanks) and 2 motorized
infantry companies.

 36th Division: 134th rbrt bat (Hanani Tavor);

 143rd Division: 87th rbrt bat (Ben-Zion (Benzi) Carmeli,
died 10/8/73; then – Yoav Barom, died 10/16/73);
 146th Division: 288th rbrt bat (Zvi (Zwika) Dahav);
 162nd Division: 279th (?) Rbrt bat;
 210th Division:? rbrt baht;
 252nd Division: 189th rbrt bat (Major Menashe Inbar,
wounded ??. 10.73; then – Major Mark Yames, dead ??.
10.73; then – Major David (Dudu) Halevi).

Other individual battalions:

 Koah Nati (Natanel (Nati) hravits) – combined tan bat (30

Shot crews, a motorized infantry company on M113);
10/12/73 one of the mouth transferred to the 179th br br;
 Koah Ben-Ari (? Ben-Ari) – combined tan bat (27 Shot
crews, a motorized infantry company);
 “Koah Ehud” (Ehud Barak) – combined tan bat (26 crews
of IRAH, a motorized infantry company on M113) – the
so-called. 100th tan baht, 460th brt br;
 Koah Vilner (Zeev Eitan);
 “Koah Yusuf” – combined tan bat (in fact, the company
“Shot”);
 “Koah Hasdai” (Yaakov Hasdai) – the combined infantry
battalion, in the center of the war he fought in the
 framework of the 162nd division (battle in Suez
10/24/73);
 46th – a course of department commanders (MAKim);
 225th – at Sinai, possibly – training;
 The 300th subdivision (Amos Gilboa) – the subdivision of
national minorities (“Yehidat ha-Myuthim” – mainly
Druses) – reinforced infantry bat;
 450th – course commanders offices.

Artillery regiments and battalions

By the beginning of the war, all 6 IDF armored divisions had an

artillery regiment (including the 209th — regular). Below is a
list of these regiments with the names of the commanders (in
the rank of colonel), as well as a list of divisions that included
them with the names of the commanders (in the rank of
lieutenant colonel):

 The 209th artillery regiment (Yaakov Erez) of the 252nd

division:
 404th Diva “Shfifon”
 ? th bn.
 ? th bn.
 ? th bn.
 ? th bn.
 The 212nd artillery regiment (Beni Arad) of the 36th
division:
 ? th bn.
 ? th bn.
 ? th bn.
 ? th bn.
 ? th bn.
 213rd Artillery Regiment (Daniel Avidar (Finstein)) of the
146th Division:
 ? th bn.
 ? th bn.
 ? th bn.
 ? th bn.
 ? th bn.

 The 214th artillery regiment (Yaakov Aknin) of the 143rd

division:
 ? th bn.
 ? th bn.
  ? th bn.
 ? th bn.
 ? th bn.

 The 215th artillery regiment (Chaim Granit) of the 162nd

division:
 402nd bn. “Reshef”
 ? th bn.
 ? th bn.

 ? th bn.
 ? th bn.
 The 282nd artillery regiment (Moshe Levy) of the 210th
division:
 334th bn. “Ha-Raam” (Aharon Zohar or Arieh
Shaham (Schwartz))
 405th bn. “Timer” (Arie Mizrahi)
 411st bn. “Keren”
 ? th bn.
 ? th bn.

Divisions, whose submission I do not know:

 The 285th Diva fought in Sinai.

 313rd div (Giora Riftin, then – Eli Kline) – fought at Sinai.
 The 325th div (Israel Shimoni) fought on the Golan.
 The 352nd Diva fought in the Golan.
 the combined art division of the BAAD-9 art school (Ben-
Ami Kohen; deputy – Major Shmuel Golan) – fought in the
Golan, at the time of the beginning of the war he
submitted to the 820th ter br.

The regular strength of the artillery regiment was 5 battalions:

three 155-mm self-propelled guns and two self-propelled mortars
(120 mm and 160 mm each). The staff number of the division is
12 guns or mortars (3 batteries with 4 barrels; in addition, each
battalion had a staff battery – “Solat Mifkada”). However, 10 M-
50, 3 L-33 and 2 M109 divisions allowed us to provide 155-mm
ACS with only 5 regiments. Therefore, the 282nd regiment,
which was in the stage of formation, although it had 5 divisions,
but 155-mm ACS among them was not. The battalions of this
regiment were as follows: 155 mm towed guns; 105 mm self-
propelled guns Priest, three self-propelled mortars – one 120 mm
and two 160 mm. During the war, the 213rd artillery regiment
also had the Priest division (apparently, as reinforcement).

Part of the brigades (for example, parachute and 16th infantry)

had their own battalions of 120-mm towed mortars. Perhaps the
division (or divisions) of the 122-mm D-30 guns was intended to
enhance the parachute brigades. Apparently, all 6 mechanized
brigades in the division had 120-mm self-propelled mortars (in
any case, in the 670th fur division there was such a division).

In addition, additional divisions (mainly mortar and towed

artillery) were combined within the territorial districts (South of
Sinai, the borders with Jordan and Lebanon) and the artillery
regiment of the Chief Artillery Officer Headquarters. The
reserve artillery of the General Staff included divisions of long-
range artillery (M107 / 110, M-46, part of the towed 155-mm) and
MLRS.

In general, there were the following battalions:

 4 battalions of 175/203 mm ACS M107 / 110 Roma / Card

(55th Dragon, 329th, 412th and 647th);
 2 155 mm ACS M109 “Rohev” (405th “Timer” and 899th);
 10 155-mm ACS M-50 (2 each in 5 artillery regiments;
including the 404th Shfifon, the 402nd Reshef, a
collection of art schools);
 3 155-mm ACS L-33 “Roem” (including the 403rd “Eyal”);
 2 105 mm ACS M7 Priest;
 1-2 240 mm MLRS BM-24 (including the 270th; its
commander, Lieutenant Colonel Uriel (Uri) Kidar (Kola),
died October 10, 1973);
 1,290-mm MLRS MAR-290 (“Ivry”);
 6 160-mm self-propelled mortars (one in each artillery
regiment; given that there were 2 such divisions in the
282nd regiment, there should have been at least 7 of
them; on the other hand, the second division could
belong to another regiment; h.: 313rd, 325th, 334th “ha-
Raam” and 352nd; in the 334th division there were 2
batteries of mortars and one – 155 mm SAU M-50);
 12 120-mm self-propelled mortars (6 in artillery
regiments and 6 as part of mechanized brigades;
perhaps divisions of brigades during the war were
attached to artillery regiments; including: 285th);
 2 155-mm towed guns M-50;
  2 130 mm M-46 towed guns (including the 405th; in
1969, this division had a battery armed with 122 mm D-
74 guns);
 4 (?) Of the 122-mm towed howitzers M-30 and D-30
(including the 327th, in 1969.);
 1 (?) 105 mm M102 towed howitzers (rather, there was a
separate M102 battery or M102 battery as part of a
division of other types of guns);
 ? 120 mm towed mortars.

A few general comments on artillery:

 on 07.10.73, 24 artillery battalions were deployed in the

Golan region;
 most divisions fought on the same front; only two
batteries of the 55th Dragon Division, as well as the
899th and 270th divisions, were redeployed 14 (?). 10.73
from the north front to the south;
 in the Golan, all the divisions of the M109 fought (899th
moved 14 (?). 10.73 to Sinai), M-46 and M7 Priest;
 ACS M107 / 110 were used on both fronts; by the
beginning of the battles, the 55th Division was divided –
the headquarters and 2 batteries in the Golan, the third
in Sinai; 14 (?). 10.73 division was merged at Sinai; The
329th and 647th divisions fought the entire war in Sinai,
the 412th battalion on the Golan;
 The 214th artillery regiment of the 143rd division acted
during the war with 5 divisions: one 175-mm self-
propelled gun, two 155-mm self-propelled guns and two
self-propelled mortars (120 mm and 160 mm
each); before forcing the canal on the night of
10/15/10/73, the 215th artillery regiment of the 162nd
division and the 270th division of the MLRS were
subordinated to it, the total number of divisions in the
regiment reached 12;
 The Shahifon division, the mortar divisions of the 215th
artillery regiment, and Koach Eli (the combined division
of two batteries of 120-mm self-propelled mortars taken
from two different divisions) were part of the combined
artillery regiment “Koakh Namer”;
 The 334th Division, permanently stationed in the Golan
in peacetime, was mixed – it included two batteries of
160 mm self-propelled mortars and a battery of 155 mm
self-propelled guns (presumably M-50);
  the prefab art division of the BAAD-9 art school did not
have a number and existed for only 13 days – from the
moment of the improvised formation on October 5 and
until disbanding on October 18 (its tools – ACS M-50 –
were transferred to the reservist division). The cadets
referred to various courses held at that time at BAAD-9
— officer (“ktsinim” course), telecommunications
workers (“kasharim course”), retraining to gunners
(“total exchange rate course” course), and “target
technical course”. Batteries were not divided by
courses, but were mixed.
 except for the above, the following divisions are found in
various sources: 322nd (self-propelled mortars), 425th
(in 1969 – 120 mm self-propelled mortars), 436th (155
mm), 839th (155 mm, 215th artillery regiment), 872th
(214th artillery regiment).

Engineering troops

Shelves (“Egged”) engineering troops:


 626th Ferry Regiment (“Eged Tslikh”;
commander – Colonel Menashe Gur
(Georgie)); composition:
 The 605th ferry battalion (“Gdud Sirot ve-
Gsharim”) – worked with Uniflot ferries,
and possibly with a roller bridge; there
was a company of engineering
equipment (“Pugat TsAMA” – “Ciyud
Mechanical Handasi”);
 The 630th ferry battalion (“Gdud Dovrot
ve-Gsharim”; commander – Lieutenant
Colonel Avi Zohar) – 2 companies of the
“Uniflot” ferries and 2 companies of the
boats;
 The 634th Ferry Battalion (“Gdud
Timsahim”) – apparently an organization
similar to the 630th, but with the
“Timsah” ferries; there was a company
of TsAMA;
 631st repair battalion (“Gdud Sadnaot
Gishur u-Tslikh”).
  The 572nd regiment of engineering equipment (“Eged
TsAMA”) was created after the end of the war in the
Southern Military District.
 Engineering regiments (Eged Handas) – two such
regiments were created immediately after the end of the
war to carry out large-scale work to strengthen the
Israeli springboard on the west bank of the canal and
the approaches to the canal from the east. To the west
of the canal, a regiment under the command of Colonel
Michael Reichuk acted, to the east – Colonel Moshe
Shoham. Both regiments were part of the 143rd
division.

A few years before the war, mechanized (on halftracks)

engineering battalions (“Gdud handas Meshuryan”) were created
on the basis of engineering companies of armored brigades. In
each such battalion there were several sapper companies
(“Plugat Palasim”) and a company of TsAMA.

 36th Division:? Th ingb bat (?);

 143rd Division: 229th (?) Ing Baht (Baruch Dilion -?);
 146th Division:? Th ingb bat (?);
 162nd Division: 271st (?) Eng Baht (Oded Livne) – by 18
(?). 10.73 in 460th brt;
 210th Division:? Th ingb bat (?);
 252 Division:? Th ing bat (Aharon (Joni) Tana
(Tenenboym) -?).

Other units of the engineering troops:

 The 606th bn. of engineering tanks (“Gdud Tankay ha-

handas”) was formally part of the Armored Forces. This
battalion was equipped with tank bridges and tanks-
bulldozers. The equipment of the battalion was
distributed between the divisions of the Northern
Military District and the Southern Military District.
 As part of the Northern Command, by the beginning of
the war, there was a district engineering troops
battalion under the command of Lieutenant Colonel
Moshe Peled and a battalion of the Officers’ Course of
engineering troops. The reservist units mobilized since
the beginning of the war included 2 engineering
battalions (“Gdudei Palasim”) and other units. In the
district armored divisions were mechanized engineering
 battalions. In the last days of the war, the existence of
the TsAMA battalion is mentioned in Central Command.

 The Southern Military District under the command of

Lieutenant Colonel Aharon (Joni) Tan (Tenenboim) had 2
battalions at the beginning of the war (perhaps the
605th battalion and the engineering battalion of the
252nd division are meant – both regular), TsAMA and
demining units (Siluk Ptsatsot) . After mobilizing
reserves, the engineering battalion was deployed in
each of the 3 armored divisions (143rd, 162nd and
252nd) districts.
 During the war, the Central Military District and the
South Sinai Zone also included engineering units,
including TsAMA.