 Anita Shapira considers this "New myth" was necessary not to reject identity with the past and to be able to renounce their common memory.While Israel in the 1980s was under much criticism from myths about the state's founding, the reception of this idea was mitigated and "this version of Latrun that was destined to blow up the myth that the regathering was solely in the hands of a group of radicals in the middle of the [Israeli] intellectual community".A battle fought in this zone and tragic for the Israelis was completely eclipsed from their collective memory.