Searches of metal scrap yards and warehouses have thus far been in vain.
By YIGAL GRAYEFFstolen memorial 298.88(photo credit: Channel 2)
Thieves have stolen an aluminium sculpture that reconstructed the battles of the War of Attrition, police said on Saturday.
The three-ton edifice was a memorial to David Esin and seven other soldiers who died in the war, which was a low-level conflict that took place between Israel and Egypt in 1969-70.
Despite searching the metal scrap yards and warehouses near the site of the sculpture - in Mitzpar Hacarmel, south-east of Haifa - police hadn't found it by Saturday night.
David Esin's brother, Ilan, said he worked in co-operation with the army for a year and a half to construct the memorial.
"It was a lot of work and now it could be nothing, just metal," he said.
