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Brother Athanase, a Catholic monk of a monastery in Latrun, looks out on the damage caused by wildfires to the monastery's vineyards and olive groves, on July 16, 2025. (Charlie Summers/Times of Israel)
July 18, 2025, 8:26 am
After Catholic monks’ vineyard was burned in wildfires, Israelis dig in to help replant
The Latrun Monastery’s agricultural lands took a hard hit in this spring’s blazes, prompting a grassroots interfaith effort to help restore their sole source of livelihood
By Charlie Summers
View of a massive wildfire near Latrun, on the outskirts of Jerusalem, April 30, 2025. (Oren Ben Hakoon/Flash90)
April 30, 2025, 7:15 pm
Many Independence Day events nixed, public told to avoid cemeteries amid raging wildfires
Official torch-lighting ceremony called off, rehearsal footage being aired instead; flames encroach on decommissioned tanks at Latrun after Memorial Day ceremony hastily evacuated
By ToI Staff
Firefighters try to extinguish a fire that broke out near Mesilat Zion, April 30, 2025. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)
April 30, 2025, 2:12 pm
Communities evacuated as massive brushfires rage near Jerusalem, Route 1 closed
Neve Shalom, Beko’a, Ta’oz, Nachshon and Latrun cleared of people as roads blocked; dozens of firefighting units, planes battle flames
By ToI Staff
Israeli president Isaac Herzog speaks at the President residence in Jerusalem, September 6, 2023. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
September 14, 2023, 12:57 am
Herzog urges leaders to ‘end crisis,’ claims wide support for overhaul compromise
President highlights ‘moment of truth’ for political leadership, urges ‘courage and responsibility’ to reach a deal ‘in the spirit of the values of the Declaration of Independence’
By ToI Staff
From left to right: Caption (L-R): Yesh Atid MK Vladimir Beliak; Likud MK Tsega Melaku; Tod Elan, father of 2nd Lt. Carmi Elan, and his granddaughter; Ofer Gutman, CEO of Masa Israel Journey; cabinet secretary Yossi Fuchs; Stephanie Hallett, Deputy Chief of Mission at the US Embassy; US House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries; Doron Almog, chairman of the Jewish Agency for Israel; Mark Wilf, Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Jewish Agency for Israel, at the Masa Israel Journey Memorial Day ceremony in Latrun, April 24, 2023. (Masa Israel Journey)
April 25, 2023, 8:56 am
Hundreds of thousands tune into largest English-language Memorial Day ceremony
‘Forever Connected’ is theme of Masa Israel Journey event, livestreamed online and attended in person by 7,000, including US House delegation, bereaved families, Knesset members
By Michael Horovitz
Foreign Minister Yair Lapid sits with Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi in Cairo, December 9, 2021 (Shlomi Amsalem/GPO)
July 11, 2022, 6:02 am
Lapid tells Sissi he’ll probe reports of mass grave for Egyptian soldiers from 1967
President raises issue during call with PM days after Hebrew media publishes exposé on dozens of commandos buried near Latrun after they lost battle with IDF during Six Day War
By ToI Staff
Montfort was occupied by the Teutonic Order of knights for over 50 years in the 13th century. (Shmuel Bar-Am)
November 9, 2019, 8:29 am
In the footsteps of fighting monks and pilgrims: Touring Israel’s Crusader ruins
Remnants of the Middle Ages’ Kingdom of Jerusalem, including fortresses, citadels and battle sites, still dot the country and are open to visitors
By Aviva and Shmuel Bar-Am
The unfinished museum honoring Jewish World War II veterans, in Latrun, Israel, April 18, 2017. (AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov)
February 17, 2019, 2:34 pm
Netanyahu pledges funds to finally finish museum honoring Jewish WWII soldiers
After years of stalemate over funding, PM vows Latrun project will be completed to honor the 1.5 million Jews who fought the Nazis
By Agencies
View of the train and tracks during a test drive of the Jerusalem-Tel Aviv high-speed train in central Israel on January 16, 2018. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)
September 3, 2018, 6:44 pm
Disasters drilled on Jerusalem-Ben Gurion fast rail ahead of opening in 3 weeks
Israel Railways mounts exercises to extract ‘blaze victims’ from Israel’s longest tunnel, evacuate injured from underground platform
By Sue Surkes
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivers a speech during a ceremony marking the 50th anniversary of the Six Day War at the Latrun Armored Corps Memorial Site and Museum, between Jerusalem and Tel Aviv, on June 5 2017. (MENAHEM KAHANA / AFP)
June 5, 2017, 11:44 pm
Netanyahu insists Israel retain Jordan Valley military control
PM says ‘we seeks peace that will last for generations,’ but ‘we must maintain security’
By AFP
The unfinished museum honoring Jewish World War II veterans, in Latrun, Israel, April 18, 2017. (AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov)
April 24, 2017, 2:10 pm
Jewish veterans bemoan stalling of Israel’s WWII museum
$10 million needed to complete building, exhibits in Latrun for story of 1.5 million Jewish soldiers who fought the Nazis
By Aron Heller
Police officers clash with ultra-Orthodox Jewish protesters during a demo against the arrest of Jewish seminary student who failed to comply with a recruitment order in Jerusalem on February 9, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
February 9, 2017, 6:21 pm
Hundreds of Haredi protesters clash with cops at army draft demos; 33 arrested
Police use water cannons, mounted officers to clear demonstrators who halt traffic on main highways at rush hour
By ToI Staff
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends an official ceremony to receive an IDF tank captured during the First Lebanon War, in Moscow on June 8, 2016. (GPO)
June 17, 2016, 7:16 pm
Experts: Tank returned by Russia was not the one used by missing soldiers
Families of MIAs Zvi Feldman, Yehuda Katz and Zachary Baumel furious at Netanyahu’s ‘spin,’ say PM knew all along
By ToI Staff
Israeli tank from the 1982 Battle of Sultan Yacoub in the First Lebanon War seen on display at a Moscow museum. (Courtesy GPO)
June 16, 2016, 3:20 am
IDF tank held by Russia since 1982 returns to Israel
Vehicle seized by Syria during battle of Sultan Yacoub lands at Ben-Gurion Airport, in gesture by Putin to Netanyahu
By ToI Staff
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends an official ceremony to receive an IDF tank captured during the First Lebanon War, in Moscow on June 8, 2016. (GPO)
June 8, 2016, 7:53 pm
In Russia, PM receives IDF tank captured in 1982 war
Netanyahu thanks Putin for ‘touching humanitarian gesture,’ says vehicle’s return to Israel will comfort families of missing soldiers
By ToI Staff
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