Specializing In • Custom Bedrooms • Wall Units • Dining Rooms at the end. of the road, where Salah e-Din Street meets Herod's Gate and the Old City , walls. We could travel no far- ther and turned around. Haim Bar-Lev took the wheel. Back on Nablus Road, we en- countered all the terrible and pathetic remnants of war: death and destruction and chaos. Nothing stirred. "I think they've all run away," I said to Bar-Lev. The next day proved me wrong. The residents of East Jerusalem had simply hidden in their cellars, to emerge when the shooting stopped. By 9:45 a.m. we were on Mt. Scopus, gazing at the town below, which seemed idle and empty. All at once I saw smoke rising inside the Old City, behind the walls. I contacted Arik: "Are the paratroopers shelling the Old City?" When he said that they were, I ordered him to stop immediate- ly, and at the same moment, heard the paratroop G. Branch officer commanding his mortar units to stop shooting. "We're going in:' he cried. "Where are you?" I called. "At the Lion's Gate." Before his last word was uttered we were back in our vehicles, rac- ing down the mountain, our hearts as loud as the motors. We were going into the Old City! Nineteen years earlier we had broken through the Zion Gate and entered the Jewish Quarter, only to leave it again in despair and bitter disappointment. "Let us not go in if it's just to go out another time," I breathed. "We shall never leave again," said Haim Bar-Lev. Our convoy was on the slope of the hill below Rockefeller, where the road branches towards Gethsemane. From the corner position on the wall op- posite, shots were still coming, and beneath, on the traffic island, was a silent Sherman tank. Ahead, on the road from the valley to the Lion's Gate, was a column of paratroopers, led by General Rabbi Shlomo Goren, chief army chaplain, a sefer torah under his arm, a shofar in his left hand, his beard bristling like the point of a spear, and his face bathed in perspiration. "Rabbi," I called out. "Come aboard. We're going to the same place." "No;' he replied. "lb the Tem- ple Mount one goes on foot." "Then we'll meet there." The jeep sprang forward. On the way I contacted Motta to find out where he was. "The Temple Mount is ours!" I couldn't believe it. "I repeat;' said Motta. "The Temple Mount is ours. I'm stan- ding near the Mosque el-Omar Tasteful Gifts! 737-2450 • Cookie & Candy Trays • Special Occasion Baskets • Custom Orders Welcome WE DELIVER! tow e rr,- DESIGN IT INC. Keith Schare Designer COCKTAIL TABLE 471-3223 Sandee Nabat Elaine Kovinsky Khaki Coordinates SPRING INTO FASHION WITH EXCITING NEW COLORS. Our exclusive Coralite and Wood lace Agate Collection is a fresh new look. The perfect addition for your spring wardrobe. Choose any one of these exciting gift ideas. Specially discount priced. These designs won't last long. Quantities are limited. A. 36" Beaded Necklace Now only $5900 B. 16" Bolder Bead Choker Specially priced $7900 C. Day Drop Earrings Discount priced Matching Bracelets Starting from Tapper's... we discount our prices, not our quality. FREE GIFT WRAP / CASH REFUNDS rf =NW ORDER BY PHONE CALL 357-5578 FINE JEWELRY AND GIFTS Mon.-Sat. 10 till 5:45. Thurs. till 8:45. MasterCard and Visa accepted. SAVINGS, SELECTION AND PERSONAL SERVICE 26400 W. 12 Mlle Rd. (N.E. corner of Northwestern) in the Franklin Savings Center. Continued on next page 23