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Line 24: }} '''Latrun''' ({{lang-he\|לטרון}}, ''Latrun''; {{lang-ar\|اللطرون}}, ''al-Latrun'') is a strategic hilltop in the [[Latrun salient]] in the [[Ayalon Valley]]~~, and a depopulated Palestinian village~~. 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 [[Battles of Latrun (1948)\|fierce fighting]] during the [[1948 Arab–Israeli War\|1948 war]]. During the period of 1949–1967, it was occupied by Jordan at the edge of a [[No man's land (Latrun)\|no man's land]] between the armistice lines. In the 1967 war, it was occupied by Israel. The hilltop includes the [[#Trappist monastery\|Latrun Abbey]], [[Mini Israel]] (a park with scale models of historic buildings around Israel), [[Society for the Protection of Nature in Israel#Birding Division\|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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