Word: jerusalem
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Then there was Jerusalem. For reasons deeper than strategy or security, Jerusalem is the one Israeli prize that is not negotiable. Any government that returned Old Jerusalem to Jordan would surely collapse. Already the Israelis have razed the bunkers and blockhouses dividing the city's two sectors, and bulldozers have leveled Arab huts to open a broad square before the Wailing Wall -all that remains of the Second Temple, destroyed by the Romans in A.D. 70. Last week, for the festival of Shavouth, which commemorates the handing down of the Law to Moses, the Old City was opened...
...Pogroms. Much the same kind of progress was made in the captured Jordanian territory, where Brigadier General Chaim Herzog ruled as military governor from the office that King Hussein had used when he visited Old Jerusalem. Uniformed Jordanian police went back on duty, and the water and electricity systems opened up again. The U.N. agreed to resume the feeding, housing, education and medical care of some 400,000 Palestinian refugees in the area...
...according to Genesis, Abraham received the title deed from God. This religious tradition has maintained a sense of community among Jews scattered over the world since the Romans destroyed the Palestine Jewish community in A.D. 135. For centuries, Passover and Yom Kippur services have ended with "Next year in Jerusalem!" And the Psalmist sang...
...correspondent came up with some arresting insight or detail. Covering the war for the Chicago Sun-Times, Cartoonist Bill Mauldin reported that at least some Arabs living in Israel were content with their lot and even fearful of Nasser. Los Angeles Times Correspondent Joe Alex Morris Jr. reported from Jerusalem that the Palestinians blamed King Hussein or the Arabs in general for not fighting harder. "But at the same time, there were greetings of 'shalom' to Israeli patrols as they crept up the narrow, sun-baked streets...
...stoned in Sumatra, shot in Laos, charged with bayonets in Java. "You have to stick your neck out a mile," he explained. "That is why this kind of program isn't done very often." His documentaries were taut, full of action, rarely bland. During the fighting in Jordanian Jerusalem, Yates was supervising a camera crew from the doorway of the Intercontinental Hotel. When a volley of firing began, everyone else ducked. Yates, typically, raised his head to see what was going on-and was struck by a bullet...