It was initially named Mishmar Ayalon Bet as it was located at the road junction to the existing Mishmar Ayalon, which had been established two years before, but was later renamed Kfar Bin Nun after Operation Bin Nun, which was named itself after the second name of Joshua (1:1), who fought here in the Ayalon valley (Joshua 10:12).[4][5][6] During two efforts, IDF did not succeed to capture Latrun during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War.
^Carta's Official Guide to Israel and Complete Gazetteer to all Sites in the Holy Land. (3rd edition 1993) Jerusalem, Carta, p.259, ISBN965-220-186-3 (English)
^Yitzhaki, Aryeh (ed.). מדריך ישראל: אנציקלופדיה שימושית לידיעת הארץ [Israel Guide: An Encyclopedia for the Study of the Land] (in Hebrew). Vol. 9: Judea. Jerusalem, Israel: Keter Press. p. 383.
^Bitan, Hanna: 1948-1998: Fifty Years of 'Hityashvut': Atlas of Names of Settlements in Israel, Jerusalem 1999, Carta, p.32, ISBN965-220-423-4 (Hebrew)
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