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This is a photo of four Israeli Air Force (Heyl Ha'Avir) Dassault Mirage III fighters (probably the Mirage IIICJ variant) flying somewhere (presumably) over Israel.

That may be Mt Hermon, Golan Heights. See: [1] [2]

Further, if you plug in these coordinates to Google Map, 33.416111,35.8575- and then switch to Google Earth mode and rotate the map around a bit. you'll get a view which appears to match this. I have a screencap you can view with this guest pass. I could be wrong and the Google satellite imagery wasn't very detailed to confirm, but it's sure close.

Kevin Wow, that is awesome!

US Air Force McDonnell F-4E Phantom II (F-4E-32-MC), USAF Ser. No. 66-0313 (c/n 2528). As per the Joe Baugher site: www.joebaugher.com/usaf_serials/1966.html [C]redited with shooting down MiG-19 over North Vietnam Oct 6, 1972. To Israel in Oct 1973, Nickel Grass. As 331 with Israeli Defense Force Air Force. Assigned as ground trainer at Holtz Technical School, Tel Aviv, Israel. Preserved as gate guard at Ramon AB with fake serial 119 in Jul 2012. Another photo of the same aircraft in the SDASM's Flickr Commons collection:

Looks like gun camera footage of a MiG 21. Probably from the '73 war.

The note seems to be from Avihu Ben-Nun (Hebrew: אביהו בן-נון‎), “the 11th commander of the Israeli Air Force between 1987 and 1992”. I see some Google hits for "Avihu Ben-Nun Randy MiG" mentioning a Randy Ball, who could be the same one that this inscription refers to:

Randy W. Ball / MiG Pilot is a sixth generation Texan who spent his early years in rural Texas, the same as most of his ancestors, graduating from high school with a class of only 29.All of Randy’s time, however, wasn’t spent on the ‘ranch’. His father took him flying and he spent countless hours with one of his heroes, his Great Uncle Gilbert Ball, who flew 56 missions over Europe flying the B-17 Flying Fortress. Randy would ask questions and listen to his uncle’s stories by the hour. Even before college, Randy knew he wanted to fly. By the time he was 13 years old, he had already taken off and landed a plane with his father and soloed at the age of 18.To date, Randy has appeared on TV and Film, in dozens of magazines, and flown in front of millions of air show fans.Today Randy is recognized as one of the premier air show pilots flying jet aerobatics.