40 Years Later
by Adam | Monday 11 June 2007
The (famous, remarkable, inspiring) picture on the left was taken on June 7, 1967, shortly after the Israeli army won Jerusalem's Old City back from the Jordanians during the Six-Day War.
This picture captures three soldiers beside the Western Wall in this moment of awe and disbelief after delivering some of the holiest sites in Judaism back to the Jewish people for the first time in 2000 years. This event came on the heels of a military crisis which many predicted would end in the destruction of the State of Israel.
The picture on the right is from the 40 year anniversary of the reunification of Jerusalem. I'll leave further commentary out, because these pictures, in so many ways, speak for themselves.