 Despite this bloodbath , Anita Shapira underlines that this battle didn 't remain in the Israeli collective memory . " If success has numerous fathers , [ ... ] defeat remains an orphan . [ ... ] The deaths of Qurikur did not enter into the pantheon of the Israeli national memory . [ ... ] [ While there were numerous polemics about Latrun ] , that 45 soldiers perished [ ... ] should have begged a question . But they died in a side of the arena that proved to be unimportant , given it was not to decide the outcome of the campaign . 
