Watch List notes:

Israeli Military Industries ("Ta'as") 50th anniversary commemoration medal, 1983; struck in tombak; weight: 25.95g; size: 39.5mm. Obverse depicts the emblem of the IMI (the IDF's emblem of an olive branch intertwined with a sword, on a background of a factory wheel), with legend "50th Jubilee of the Military Industries" 1933-1983; on reverse the official emblem of Israel's 35th Anniversary with legend "Year of Bravery" and along edge "35 Years of Israel's Independence". IMI began as a cottage industry in the town of Givatayim, to equip the pre-State defence militia, the "Haganah", and developed in time into an organized body of workshops producing a variety of hand-held weapons, including the Sten and the Uzi. Today IMI is the 4th largest company in the global defence industry. In VF-EF.