{"id":56888,"date":"2021-08-23T21:34:05","date_gmt":"2021-08-23T19:34:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/?p=56888"},"modified":"2025-08-23T04:44:57","modified_gmt":"2025-08-23T02:44:57","slug":"yad-la-shiryon-a-walk-through-one-of-the-worlds-largest-tank-museums","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2021\/08\/23\/yad-la-shiryon-a-walk-through-one-of-the-worlds-largest-tank-museums\/","title":{"rendered":"Yad La-Shiryon: A walk through one of the world's largest tank museums"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since its birth in 1948, the State of Israel has fought relentlessly for its survival, often resorting to tanks.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2024\/05\/22\/the-israel-air-force-museum-an-aviation-gem-in-the-negev-desert\/\">The Israel Air Force Museum, an aviation gem in the Negev Desert<\/a><\/rel><br \/>\n<rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2023\/01\/14\/aqaba-the-strange-place-where-you-can-see-tanks-cannons-and-helicopters-underwater\/\">Aqaba: the strange place where you can see tanks, cannons and helicopters underwater<\/a><\/rel><\/p>\n<p>Near Jerusalem, there is a place where you can learn in detail the history of the Israeli Army's Armored Corps: the <a href=\"https:\/\/yadlashiryon.com\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Yad La-Shiryon Military Museum<\/a>, which <strong>with 110 tanks and armored vehicles<\/strong> is one of the largest museums of its kind in the world. Its repertoire includes <strong>some German, British and American tanks used in World War II<\/strong>, as well as later vehicles of the aforementioned nationalities, also of French and Soviet origin, <strong>in addition to tanks manufactured in Israel.<\/strong> The museum was opened in 1982 and in addition to its purely museum function, it also serves as a place of tribute to the fallen of the Israeli Armored Corps.<\/p>\n<p>Israeli YouTuber <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCskFSpDpXyqQNnacB1u4k_g\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Relaxing Pedestrian<\/a> has published <strong>a very complete video tour of this museum<\/strong> (it lasts more than an hour), in which he shows us both the vehicles and the interior of the museum building. An excellent way to visit a historical place without having to leave home:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"665\" height=\"374\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/B_AQnmfKupw\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since its birth in 1948, the State of Israel has fought relentlessly for its survival, often resorting to tanks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[19536,11549,16888],"tags":[95,18458,15412],"class_list":["post-56888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-we-said-yesterday","category-military-history","category-museums","tag-israel","tag-israeli-army","tag-yad-la-shiryon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56888"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56888\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}