Latrun
Sign in to saveLatrun (, Latrun; , al-Latrun) is a strategic hilltop in the Latrun salient in the Ayalon Valley. It overlooks the road between Tel Aviv and Jerusalem, 25 kilometers west of Jerusalem and 14 kilometers southeast of Ramla. It was the site of fierce fighting during the 1948 war. During the period of 1949–1967, it was occupied by Jordan at the edge of a no man's land between the armistice lines. In the 1967 war it was captured by Israel and had been under Israeli control since then.
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- Latrun
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- Village
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- 250
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- Trappist Monastery
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- Location of Latrun
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- 148/137
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- Israel
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- Israel and Palestine
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- Israeli district
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- Jerusalem
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- Palestinian governorate
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14 sectionsContents
- Etymology
- History
- In the Hebrew Bible
- Hellenistic period
- Crusader period
- Ottoman period
- Village
- Trappist monastery
- British Mandate
- 1948 and 1967 Arab–Israeli Wars
- Since the Six-Day War
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Latrun (, Latrun; , al-Latrun) is a strategic hilltop in the Latrun salient in the Ayalon Valley. It overlooks the road between Tel Aviv and Jerusalem, 25 kilometers west of Jerusalem and 14 kilometers southeast of Ramla. It was the site of fierce fighting during the 1948 war. During the period of 1949–1967, it was occupied by Jordan at the edge of a no man's land between the armistice lines. In the 1967 war it was captured by Israel and had been under Israeli control since then.
The hilltop includes the Latrun Abbey, Mini Israel (a park with scale models of historic buildings around Israel), The International Center for the Study of Bird Migration (ICSBM), the Yad La-Shiryon memorial to armored corps soldiers killed in action, and military tank museum. Neve Shalom (Oasis of Peace) is a joint Israeli-Palestinian community on a hilltop south of Latrun. Canada Park is nearby to the east.
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