Kammala wannan jumla: Kauyen shine tunanin Uba Bruno Hussar. An haife shi a Masar ɗan Yahudawa marasa aiki, ya koma addinin Kirista yayin da yake karatun injiniya a Faransa. Kasancewa da shaida na farko game da mummunar ƙiyayya da yaƙi na Faransa a lokacin yaƙi ya kara fahimtarsa game da tushen yahudawansa. Ya shiga cikin Dominican Order, an naɗa shi firist a 1950, kuma an tura shi zuwa Urushalima don kafa cibiyar nazarin yahudawa a 1953, inda ya sami ɗan ƙasar Isra'ila a 1966. A shekara ta 1970, don inganta tattaunawar tsakanin addinai, ya sami kadada arba'in (120 acres) na ƙasa da aka sanya a matsayin ƙasa ba a cikin yankin.
Latrun ya yi fice, a kan 'albashi mai tsami' na 3 pence a shekara a kan hayar shekara 100 daga gidan ibada na Trappist na gida. Yankin ya zama kufai, ba shi da itace, ba shi da ruwa kuma an rufe shi da ƙaya, kuma ba a noma shi ba tun zamanin Byzantine. Da farko 'yan kasashen waje sun zo su raba kwarewar tare da shi, amma kaɗan sun kasance fiye da wata ɗaya ko biyu, sai dai Anne LeMeignon wanda ya zauna a cikin wani gida kuma ya zauna.