Keys to the Kingdom By Chava Burstein | July 13, 2021
This is a story about an old iron key that opened the gate to the Western Wall
It was June 7, 1967, and there they stood, in front of the locked, looming gate these battle-weary soldiers who suddenly found themselves leading the way to liberating the Kosel. The abandoned Wall loomed up just on the other side of the gate, but although they’d come this far, it was out of reach. They tried to move the heavy iron handle, but the gate wouldn’t give. Should they break through by force?
And suddenly, out of nowhere, there he was an ancient Arab with a huge key hanging from a rubber string under his robe. “Here, open it,” said the mysterious Arab, who vanished just as suddenly as he had appeared. The key was inserted into the lock. The gate swung open. The way to the Kosel was clear.
In Our Hands: The Battle for Jerusalem
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JERUSALEM, Israel – In less than a month, Israelis will celebrate the 54th anniversary of one of the biggest military victories of all time – the Six-Day War. As a tribute to what many see as God s victory, CBN Documentaries produced In Our Hands: the Battle for Jerusalem.
The docudrama tells the story of Israel s victory in the city during the 1967 Six-Day War through the eyes of the paratroopers.
CBN s Scott Ross interviewed the film s writer and director, Erin Zimmerman, at Ammunition Hill in Jerusalem. Ammunition Hill is the site of what is still today the bloodiest battle in Arab-Israeli history, Zimmerman said.
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Jewish worshipers pray at the Western Wall in Jerusalem, Israel. Jan 24, 2011:
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Fifty-four years ago today, Jerusalem was liberated and reunited. The war was short, only six days, but the longing for Jerusalem had lasted for centuries. Rabbi Yehuda Halevi lived in Medieval Spain but wrote that his heart was in Jerusalem. A thousand years later, when Shai Agnon received the Nobel Prize, he told the world that although he was born in the Diaspora, he always felt as if he had been born in Jerusalem. Natan Sharansky was tried and sent to prison for many years but declared to the trial judges: “Next year in Jerusalem!” And every time a couple marries, in any place throughou