 To achieve this objective Yigal Allon in entrusted 5 brigades : the Harel and Yiftach ( now totalling five battalions ) , the 8th armoury brigade ( newly constituted as the 82nd and 89th battalions ) , several infantry battalions from the <unk> and Alexandroni brigades , and 30 pieces of artillery . The 7th brigade was sent to the northern front . In a first phase , between 9 and 13 July , the Israelis took Lydda and Ramle and reasserted the area around Latrun by taking <unk> , but the forces are exhausted and the High Command renounced to the objective of taking Ramallah . Two attacks was launched against Latrun . 
