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    Issue 39 | September 2017

    Issue 39 | September 2017

    Paratroopers lean against the Western Wall just after its liberation | Photo: Bamahane magazine, courtesy of the IDF Archive in the Ministry of Defense

    Articles

  • New Life Among The Ruins – Jewish Quarter

    Barak Brenner

    With the reunification of Jerusalem, Jews could once again dwell in the Old City. But Jordanian occupation had destroyed the Jewish Quarter, and rebuilding required funding and organization on a national scale. A group of young soldiers – b

  • Command car passing through Lions’ Gate behind the advance attack force

    De-Classified Comments

    Itamar Brenner

    Fifty years after the Six-Day War and the reunification of Jerusalem, Israel’s state archives released the government protocols and stenographic records from the war. These choice quotations from the Ministerial Committee on National Securi

  • Paving the Past – Second Temple Floor

    Assaf Avraham

    If Jewish sources are anything to go by, Herod’s Temple in Jerusalem was one of the most magnificent edifices ever built. After years of painstaking archaeological research, sifting through rubble illegally removed from the Temple Mount, we

  • The Kaiser’s Cap – Tiferet Israel

    Tamar HaYardeni

    Fact and fiction intertwine in the tale of Jerusalem’s historic Tiferet Israel Synagogue, which tipped its hat to Austria’s Kaiser Franz Joseph Tamar HaYardeni For the Middle East, 1869 was a critical year: after much planning a

  • Columns

  • ירושלים בשלג. שמן על בד

    Portrait of a People | Painter of Jerusalem

    Naomi Samuel

    Naomi Samuel Jerusalem in SnowOil on canvas, 192741 x 61 cmPrivate collection Ludwig Blum1891-1974 Im

  • History Live | Through Lions’ Gate

    Tehila Bigman

    Uzi Eilam’s rich and fascinating military career peaked when he commanded his paratrooper unit to retake the Old City of Jerusalem Tehila Bigman Courtesy of the Eilam family Reserve General Uzi Eilam 1934

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