The Menorah, which stands in the area in front of the Knesset gates, was designed by the Jewish English sculptor Benno Elkan, and was donated to the Knesset by the members of the British Parliament on April 15, 1956. The subjects depicted on its reliefs are drawn from the Jewish tradition. The nation is represented as a single whole, which is made up of many links. The glorious spiritual creations of the nation, its influential personalities and the fateful events that befell it, are depicted on the Menorah. The scenes on the Menorah are scattered with no chronological order, where every relief on a branch on the left side is complemented by one on a branch on the right side. The central branch presents th