Latrun, Israel

Israel

Latrun, Israel holds 49 connections with 2017 other places across 11 topics, with military, government, and history threads dominant. During the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, Jordanian forces used a former British police fort at Latrun to shell vehicles on the road below, cutting off Jerusalem. Israeli forces assaulted the fort on 24 May 1948. The Yad la-Shiryon Museum at the site displays a Hotchkiss H35 tank used by the IDF. Jerusalem and Palestine share many connections with Latrun.

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