 After the Suez Crisis and the Six @-@ Day War , the army came to arm the most important place . For technical reasons ( distance of communication with bases ) and because new places of historical interest were accessible , the top brass debated whether to transfer the postings of new recruits at <unk> to a more appropriate place . It was Latrun that was finally chosen . In the 1980s , a commemorative site and a museum was built on the old police site . The complex has a wall listing all the names of the fallen soldiers since the War Of Independence , and a monument to the glory of the heroes and another for reverence . The museum has nearly 200 tanks and other armoured vehicles of many kinds . 
