Qualla: Israeli Air Force Museum https://qualla.com/israeli-air-force-museum en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:30 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/s/v/8/9/israeli-air-force-museum-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Israeli Air Force Museum https://qualla.com/israeli-air-force-museum Israeli Air Force Museum: Introduction https://qualla.com/israeli-air-force-museum/ Photo credit Oren Rozen, CC BY-SA 3.0. A MiG-21 bearing the tail number 007 sits in the Negev sun, its Iraqi Air Force markings long since replaced with Israeli roundels. This particular aircraft never fired a shot in combat. It was flown out of Iraq in 1966 by defecting pilot Munir Redfa during Operation Diamond, a Mossad intelligence coup that gave Israel detailed knowledge of its adversaries' frontline fighter. At the Israeli Air Force Museum on Hatzerim Airbase, every aircraft on display carries a story like this one -- not just of engineering, but of espionage, survival, and the air wars that shaped the modern Middle East.

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]]> Fri, 27 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/v/8/9/israeli-air-force-museum-wp/sv89-israeli-air-force-museum-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Israeli Air Force Museum: Machines with Kill Marks https://qualla.com/israeli-air-force-museum/ Photo credit Bukvoed, CC BY-SA 3.0. The collection reads like a combat ledger. A Dassault Mirage III Shahak, tail number 159, bears thirteen kill markings from its service during the Six-Day War and beyond. An F-15 Baz displays four kills, while an F-16 Netz, number 107, carries the unusual tally of six and a half ...

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]]> Fri, 27 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/v/8/9/israeli-air-force-museum-wp/sv89-israeli-air-force-museum-machines-with-kill-marks.mp3 0:06 2 full Israeli Air Force Museum: Spoils and Trophies https://qualla.com/israeli-air-force-museum/ Photo credit Bukvoed, CC BY 3.0. Walking the tarmac at Hatzerim, you encounter the aircraft of a half-dozen air forces. A Syrian Aerospatiale Gazelle helicopter captured during the 1982 Lebanon War. A MiG-23 flown to Israel by a defecting Syrian pilot in 1989. The tail section of an Egyptian Sukhoi Su-7 shot dow...

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]]> Fri, 27 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/v/8/9/israeli-air-force-museum-wp/sv89-israeli-air-force-museum-spoils-and-trophies.mp3 0:06 3 full Israeli Air Force Museum: A General's Obsession https://qualla.com/israeli-air-force-museum/ Photo credit No machine-readable author provided. Bukvoed assumed (based on copyright claims)., CC BY 2.5. The museum owes its existence largely to Brigadier General Yaakov Turner, who championed the project from its cornerstone laying on July 16, 1985, through its public opening on June 20, 1991. Turner was so personally invested that he regularly piloted the museum's Boeing-Stearman...

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]]> Fri, 27 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/v/8/9/israeli-air-force-museum-wp/sv89-israeli-air-force-museum-a-generals-obsession.mp3 0:06 4 full Israeli Air Force Museum: Desert Airfield, Living History https://qualla.com/israeli-air-force-museum/ Photo credit No machine-readable author provided. Bukvoed assumed (based on copyright claims)., CC BY 2.5. Hatzerim is an active air force base, and during Passover and Independence Day the boundary between museum and military blurs entirely. Active-duty F-15I Ra'am and F-16I Sufa fighters park alongside their retired predecessors, while Apache helicopters perform flyovers and childre...

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