The hanging Jeep junction on Golan Heights 🚙

Hi,
During the eve of the day we passed a monument on the way south – an old military SUV on top of a column. Looking on Amud Anan This place is called the hanging Jeep Junction.

There are some many memorials in Israel in especially on Golan Heights, but this isn’t on of those . The vehicle was raised to the top of the column after Six Day War as a frank of Artillery reserve of 336 Mortar Battery, using only a winch.

After Six Day War the Junction was with no significant to the buses of tourist passing by, and as the reserve soldiers wished for some activity the decided to make a monument to make the buses stop. It seemed to work, as one one  of the soldiers has pic showing him with two tourists from US

Later a dull of Syrian soldier has been seat on the driver seat. The UN soldiers passing by were shocked and asked to bury to corpse, but laughed when soldiers showed them it is only a dull.

Some call it The Don’t Call Me Black Junction, over the graffiti that was written on wall standing nearby. The full sentence was: Don’t call me black but a tank crewman.

Back on the days, the place was a junction and you could take the road to the east, to a place that was given to Syria as part of after Yom Kippur War agreements. Now it is more a turn on the road, as you can only go West or North to the Petroleum road

In Hebrew a Jeep is a generic name for SUV, be it a Luxury Mercedes or a military Hummer, like the one we ride on this Military reserve.

Rethinking about it, the post headline should be The Hanging SUV corner

Take Care
Gad

 

The hanging Jeep from North

The hanging Jeep junction from South A closer look on the Jeep from South

The junction location on a map

The military reserve soldiers with their work on December 1967. The signs says:
To Damascus with love.
Made (without a crane) by  Mortar Battery 336
27.12.1967
(Source: Naamoush Blog)