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Send your question to the curator at Latrun. I'm sure they have a file on each vehicle, and will be able to respond to most questions.

In general, there is a neutral spirit of sharing with museums when it comes to acquisitions. What does X have that Y covets? What does Y have that X needs to fill a spot in its collection? It doesn't matter whether you are talking tanks, paintings, bronze nudes or stamps. At a certain level money talks, and collections are just that - money. Every so often governments or foundations top up the collecting budget, but all artifacts have value.