Delhi's Teen Murti Chowk Has Been Officially Renamed After Israeli City Haifa

Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Israeli counterpart, Benjamin Netanyahu, attended the solemn ceremony at the Teen Murti Memorial recently, and marked the formal renaming of Teen Murti Chowk to Teen Murti Haifa Chowk.

They laid down a wreath and signed the visitor’s book at the memorial, in order to honour the friendship between India and Israel. 

Here’s What It’s All About | The new name of the war memorial located in a roundabout near the Teen Murti Bhavan has been renamed officially to Teen Murti Haifa Chowk. 2018 marks the 100th anniversary of the end of World War I and the Battle of Haifa, and the move was done to honour this milestone.

The Teen Murti War Memorial has three life size bronze statues representing the Hyderabad, Jodhpur and Mysore Lancers, who were a part of the 15 Empirical Service Cavalry Brigade. It was the victorious operations that these Indian soldiers carried out on 23rd December, 1918 that let to the fortification of the city of Haifa! 

We applaud this move!

Sourced Via The Hindu