Myanmar, June 10: A makeshift bypass road/track built by Israeli forces during the early phases of the War of Liberation (1948) by (American volunteer) General Mickey Marcus, during the Siege of Jerusalem. The road name was inspired by the WWII allied route into China.
The main road from Latrun into Jerusalem (now Israel Highway 1) had been under repeated ambush/blockade by local Arab village sympathizers (of the Bab el Wad Valley) and by Jordanian forces. Food and water supplies had been intermittently cut off as well. The makeshift “Burma Road” broke the second component of the siege of Jerusalem.