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(IsraelNN.com) The Jewish National Fund (JNF) announced its Wall of Honor project to honor the soldiers who fell in the 1948 and 1967 wars to defend and reunify Jerusalem. The wall will be erected at Ammunition Hill where some of the two wars’ most intense fighting took place between Israeli and Jordanian forces.

A portion of the wall will pay special tribute to the overseas volunteers, Machal, who participated in the War of Independence. “Going to Israel and establishing a Jewish state there after a 2,000-year exile was the most important thing we ever did,” said Jason Fenton, who joined the fighting as a 16-year-old British youngster.