Searches of metal scrap yards and warehouses have thus far been in vain.
By YIGAL GRAYEFF
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.
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