Knesset Menorah

Menorat Haknesset The Knesset Menorah ( Hebrew : מנורת הכנסת Menorat HaKnesset ) is a bronze monument , about five meters high, that is located at the edge of Gan Havradim (Rose Garden) in front of the Knesset . The Parliament of the United Kingdom gave this monument to Israel in 1956 , and it had been built by Benno Elkan , a British - Jewish sculptor , who worked on it for 6 years. The Menorah built in the shape of the Menorah which appears in Arch of Titus includes engravings of about 30 important events, idioms, characters and terms from the Jewish history , and is considered as a visual "textbook" about it.

Menorat Haknesset Knesset Menorah The Knesset Menorah ( Hebrew : מנורת הכנסת Menorat HaKnesset ) is a bronze monument about five meters high that is located at the edge of Gan Havradim (Rose Garden) in front of the Knesset . Built by Benno Elkan (1877-1960), a Jewish sculptor who escaped from his native Germany to Britain and worked at the project for over nine years, it was presented as a gift to the State of Israel by the Parliament of the United Kingdom in 1956. Built in the shape of the Menorah which appears on the Arch of Titus , it includes relief depictions of 29 important events from the Hebrew Bible and Jewish history , placed above a programmatic Hebrew quotation from Zechariah 4:6. It is considered a visual "textbook".

31°46′42″N 35°12′18″E  /  31.7783°N 35.2051°E  / 31.7783; 35.2051 Knesset Menorah Knesset Menorah and the Knesset The Knesset Menorah ( Hebrew : מנורת הכנסת Menorat HaKnesset ) is a bronze Menorah 4.30 meters high, 3.5 meters wide, and weighs 4 tons. It is located at the edge of Gan Havradim (Rose Garden) opposite the Knesset . It was designed by Benno Elkan (1877–1960), a Jewish sculptor who escaped from his native Germany to Britain . It was presented to the Knesset as a gift from the Parliament of the United Kingdom on April 15, 1956 in honour of the eighth anniversary of Israeli independence. The Knesset Menorah was modelled after the golden candelabrum that stood in the Temple in Jerusalem . A series of bronze reliefs on the Menorah depict the struggles to survive of the Jewish people, depicting formative events, images and concepts from the Hebrew Bible and Jewish history . The engravings on the six branches of the Menorah portray episodes since the Jewish exile from the Land of Israel . Those on the central branch portray the fate of the Jews from the biblical return to the Land to the establishment of the modern State of Israel . It has been described as a visual "textbook" of Jewish history.

Menorah opposite the Knesset in Jerusalem 31°46′42″N 35°12′18″E  /  31.7783°N 35.2051°E  / 31.7783; 35.2051 Knesset Menorah The Knesset Menorah ( Hebrew : מנורת הכנסת Menorat HaKnesset ) is a bronze menorah that is 4.30 meters high and 3.5 meters wide and weighs 4 tons. It is located at the edge of Wohl Rose Park (Hebrew Gan Havradim , "Rose Garden") opposite the Knesset . It was designed by Benno Elkan (1877–1960), a Jewish sculptor who escaped from his native Germany to the United Kingdom . It was presented to the Knesset as a gift from the British Parliament on April 15, 1956 in honour of the eighth anniversary of Israeli independence. The Knesset Menorah was modelled after the golden candelabrum that stood in the Temple in Jerusalem . A series of bronze reliefs on the Menorah depict the struggles to survive of the Jewish people, depicting formative events, images and concepts from the Hebrew Bible and Jewish history . The engravings on the six branches of the Menorah portray episodes since the Jewish exile from the Land of Israel . Those on the central branch portray the fate of the Jews from the biblical return to the Land to the establishment of the modern State of Israel . It has been described as a visual "textbook" of Jewish history.