![]() ![]() It was the first independent Jewish military base in modern history. The base was taken over by the Haganah on December 16, 1947, and renamed Camp Yehoshua after Yehoshua Globerman (1905–1947), who was killed near Latrun while returning from a mission to Jerusalem. The base was the site of the first-ever unconcealed Haganah attack on a British installation. After the war, the German prisoners were deported, mostly to Australia, and Sarona became a British military and police base. ![]() In World War II, the British forces took control of Sarona and converted it into a prison camp for Germans. Sarona was an agricultural colony, and kept this nature despite the expansion of Tel Aviv and attempts by the city to buy some of Sarona's lands. Much of the Kirya today is located on the lands of Sarona, a Templer settlement founded in the 19th Century. Being located in a dense urban environment, the base serves mainly command, administrative, communications, and support functions. It was one of the first IDF bases and has served as the IDF's headquarters since its founding in 1948. HaKirya contains the Tel Aviv District's government center and the major Israel Defense Forces (IDF) base Camp Rabin ( Hebrew: מַחֲנֶה רַבִּין, Mahaneh Rabin), named for Yitzhak Rabin. The Campus), is an area in central Tel Aviv, consisting of an urban military base north of Kaplan Street, and a civilian area south of it. HaKirya, or The Kirya ( Hebrew: הַקִּרְיָה, lit. Marganit Tower, an old landmark of the Kirya ![]()
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