The badge is connected to a long gold colored pin.
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Here a similar badge, but marked "Zechovoy":
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Jenka Ratne and Michael Shore in 1959 at Israel Defense Prize Ceremony, with David Ben-Gurion and Haim Laskov
Ilan Arbel receives the Israel Defense Award from Defense Minister Yitzhak Rabin, 1989
Major General (now Professor) Yitzhak Ben Yisrael, twice recipient of the Israel Defense Award (1972,2001). Note the award badge, mounted on the campaign ribbons - remarkable, but not according to the rules
Certificate of the award to David Leibowitch, posthumously in 1973.
Foto @Avishai Teicher
David Leibowitch (1904-1969), demonstrating the heavy mortar Davidka, invented by him.