Palsar 7 Overnight Camping Site

A camping site and memorial site in the northern Golan Heights, near Buq'ata. The site, located next to the Golan Trail, has picnic tables and wind-sheltered camping spaces for hikers on the Golan Heights Trail to stay overnight. The impressive monument is located in the area where the 7th Reconnaissance Platoon (Palsar 7) fought a fierce, bloody battle. The monument is made of a concrete platform painted white, slanted in a shape reminiscent of the front of an armored personnel carrier (used for ferrying armed soldiers). A battered armored personnel carrier that was used by the platoon’s soldiers during the Yom Kippur War is on the stage. The monument bears the names of those members of Palsar 7 who fell in both the Six-Day War and the Yom Kippur War.
 
Directions: 1.2 km north of the entrance to Kibbutz Elrom, on the western side of Route 98.
Palsar 7 Overnight Camping Site. Photograph: Yakov Shkolnik, KKL-JNF Photo Archive