High up on a strategic ridge overlooking the main thoroughfare connecting Tel Aviv and Jerusalem stands a massive, scar-ridden concrete fortress. This is Latrun, home to Yad LaShiryon, Israel’s official memorial site for the Armored Corps and one of the largest, most diverse collections of tanks and combat vehicles anywhere on earth. For thousands of years, whoever controlled this specific hill controlled the gateway to Jerusalem, from the biblical battles of Joshua and the M