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Israeli medals, tokens and keychains showing tanks and armoured vehicles.

The importance of IDF tanks in the view of the Israeli public can be demonstrated by the many medals showing a tank. The Sinai campaign, Six Day war and Yom Kippur war were all decided by Israeli tanks. In addition to this several keychains were issued by armoured units. Since small medals can easily be part of keychains, we present any medal, token or keychain related to Israeli armored vehicles.

Tank Keychain - Front Tank Keychain - Back Front: Souvenir from the armoured forces in Sinai
Sherman tank

Back: A fist on the map of Sinai desert
Tank Keychain - Front 2 Tank Keychain - Back 2 Front: Battle of the Dam

Company A, Sinai Campaign, October 1956

Back: Empty
Tank Keychain - Front 3 Tank Keychain - Back Haifa Keychain

Front: 18th Independence Day, 1966

Sherman tank

Back: National Emblem, above "Haifa"
Tank Keychain - Front 4 Tank Keychain - Back 4 Key chain

Front: 19th Independence Day, Sherman Tank

Back: 7 arm candelabre, in hebrew:"19th Independence Day"

"If I forget you, Jerusalem, may my right hand forget its skill"
(Psalm 137:5)
Six day war souvenir - front 1 Six day war souvenir - back Six Day War souvenir medal
Tank Keychain - Front 5 Tank Keychain - Back 5 Six Day War souvenir medal/keychain

Front shows the text: The War of Victory
(one of the first names of the war, before it became known as Six Day War.

Back: Rachel's Tomb
Tank Keychain - Front 6 Tank Keychain - Back 6 Six Day War souvenir medal/keychain

also celebrating 20 year Independence
French Israeli Six Day War medal - front French Israeli Six Day War medal - back French Israeli Six Day War commemorative medal, 1967; struck in silver (marked 999 on rim); no artist/maker mark; weight: 13.1g; size: 33mm

Front: a legend in Hebrew along the edge "With G-d's Will Was Saved the Peace of the World" with images of a plane, an armoured carrier, and the Torah.

Back: Flag of Israel with sword and olive branch on either side and a French text "Freedom, Peace, Brotherhood", the Hebrew word "Bazak" ("swift") and "Under the Star of David, Campaign of 6 Days" and the period underneath;

Possibly issued by French-Jewish volunteers in the war effort.
Tank Keychain - Front 7 Tank Keychain - Back 7 Keychain

Well done, Armoured Corps

5-10.VI.67
Tank Keychain - Front 8 Tank Keychain - Back 8 Front:Palmach Commanders Conference
Emblem of the Palmach
Nabi Samuel 12.9.1967
Six Days 1948-1967

Back: empty

Diameter: 35 mm

Copper
Tank Keychain - Front 9 Tank Keychain - Back 9 Front: "Wel done IDF", Independence 22
Centurion tank

Back: Itzhak Rabin, Moshe Dayan
Tank Keychain - Front 10 A keychain showing a Centurion tank, Mirage aircraft and a Parachute
7th Armored Brigade medal - front 7th Armored Brigade medal -back 7th Armored Brigade medal

Front: Armoured Corps, 25 years to the State of Israel

Back: War of Independence, Operation Kadesh, Six Days, War of Attrition.

Bronze medal, 59 mm
25 year 836th Armored Corps Training Base-front 25 year 836th Armored Corps Training Base - back Front: Merkava tank
25 year 836th Armored Corps Training Base
1974-1999

Back: Thank you for your service to the unit
Tank Keychain - Front 11 Tank Keychain - Back 11 The founders of the battalion and its successors ,March 5 1970

The picture does not show a tank, but an armoured personnel carrier M113, in Israel called "Zelda"
27th Brigade medal front 27th Brigade medal back For your service to the 27th Brigade

1952-2014

In recognition of your service in the 27th Brigade - a private, uncommon IDF medal commemorating the 27th Armored Division (Heroes of War) tank, which was manufactured in the USA in 1952 and served in the Armored Corps from the early 1960s until its final decommissioning in the reserve forces in 2014.

The tank shown is a Merkava tank
The Armored Corps - front The Armored Corps - back Israel Coins and Medals Corporation medal

The Armored Corps

Front: He shall come with fire, and like a tempest, His chariots (Isaiah 66:15)

Diameter 70 mm
Armored Reconnaissance 330 - front Armored Reconnaissance 330 - back Armored Reconnaissance 330
Brigade "Adam" 195 - front Brigade "Adam" 195 - back Brigade "Adam" 195

Armoured Forces School
IDF Ordnance Corps, Chief of Ordnance

Diameter 46 mm
Elbit Systems

Launch of Tank Training System

September 2024

Diameter 57 mm

Weight 41 gram

Source:AM-ART
7421 Reserve Armored Battalion 7421 Reserve Armored Battalion 7421 Reserve Armored Battalion

Iron Swords War

Diameter 58 mm

Weight 43 gram
"Men of Steel - Generation of Victory" "Men of Steel - Generation of Victory" "Men of Steel - Generation of Victory"

Iron Swords War

Diameter: 62 mm

Weight 59 gram
Israel Tank Brigade 188 medal Israel Tank Brigade 188 medal With Appreciation - The Armored Corps' 188 th Brigade

"Barak"

Diameter 50 mm 
Israel Hativa 7 Armored forces Israel Hativa 7 Armored forces With Appreciation - The Armored Corps' 7th Brigade, the "Sa'ar" family from the Golan Heights.

Armored Corps

Produced by Zechovoy company
Medal of the 36th Armored Division IDF Medal of the 36th Armored Division IDF Medal of the 36th Regular Armored Division of the IDF Northern Command

Weight 96 gram

Diameter 59 mm 
IDF Brigade 847 “Steel Chariots” medal IDF Brigade 847 “Steel Chariots” medal Brigade 847 'Steel Chariots',

medal marking the brigade's activity between 1978-2020

Weight 46 gram

Diameter 50 mm 
36th Division of the IDF medal 36th Division of the IDF medal  36th Division of the IDF

Front: the emblem of the Armored Corps appears in the center, surrounded by the prominent inscription "36th Division"

Bronze
Weight 77.6 gram
Diameter 59 mm

Produced by Zechovoy company 
Israel Armored Corps Workshop medal Israel Armored Corps Workshop medal Armored Corps Workshop

A medal of the period after the Six Day war
The front bears the Hebrew inscription 'Corps Workshop' and depicts a tank against a map of Israel, including the Sinai Peninsula.
The back features the Israel Armored Corps insignia.

Diameter 45 mm
Israel armored Corps Keychain or Medal Israel armored Corps Keychain or Medal Israel Armored Corps Keychain

 
Keychain medal with Israel Armored Corps emblem; the reverse bears the Hebrew inscription 'Sa'ar 5736' (430th Battalion).

Diameter 30 mm
Israel Armored Batallion Reshef Keychain Israel Armored Batallion Reshef Keychain Israel Armored Batallion Reshef Keychain

"Proud to belong" 
Israel Armored Batallion Reshef Keychain Israel Armored Batallion Reshef Keychain Israel Armored Batallion Reshef Keychain

Front: With Appreciation Reshef Batallion

Back: Traveler's Prayer

Produced by Ravda Canada Israel
Ashot Ashkelon Industries, 50th Anniversary Medal Ashot Ashkelon Industries, 50th Anniversary Medal Ashot Ashkelon Industries, 50th Anniversary Medal (1967-2017)

50 Years of Excellence

Weight 71.7 gram

Diameter 59 mm 
Yad Mordechai keychain

Front: the Egyptian tank that was stopped by the residents of kibbutz Yad Mordechai and Haganah fighters in the War of Independence in the battle that lasted from 19 to 24 May, 1948

Back: The statue of Mordechai Anielewicz, the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising leader, after whom the kibbutz is named. It stands on a hill overlooking the kibbutz and is a prominent feature of the site, which also includes a museum and a reconstructed battle site.
Keychain

82th Batallion- 7th Brigade
Keychain

82th Batallion- 7th Brigade

See also this page with IDF Armored Corps Commemorative Medals