Following the ceremony in Beersheba commemorating the 100th anniversary of the historic ANZAC battle that triumphed over the Ottoman Empire during WWI, leaders from Israel, Australia, New Zealand and KKL-JNF came together to inaugurate the ANZAC Museum established by the Keren Kayemet Le’Israel (KKL-JNF) and JNF Australia.
It is hard to describe the feelings of being in Israel at this very special moment. Particularly, that of being an Australian in Israel and more specifically, spending yesterday in Beersheba...writes Ron Weiser.
On October 30-31, exactly 100 years since the heroic victory of the ANZACs in the Battle of Beer Sheba, Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull will become the first Australian prime minister to visit Israel to attend the centennial commemoration...and going for the ride is Australian cycling legend Cadel Evans.
At the annual ceremony commemorating the 1917 Battle of Beersheba, the city's mayor referred to a proposed project with the Australian government to establish a permanent museum in the city.