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The BIG Story
around Jerusalem. In November
1947, when the United Nations
voted to partition Palestine into Jew-
ish and Arab states, the organiza-
tion also demanded that Jerusalem
be placed under international
administration and jurisdiction.
Jerusalem's population was over-
whelmingly Jewish, and Jews, Arabs
and others maintained their own,
separate neighborhoods, both in
the old and new districts of the city.
Jews grudgingly accepted the par-
tition plan, but the Arabs rejected it
outright. When British mandatory
rule in Palestine ended at midnight
on May 14-15, 1948, Arabs
forces put Jerusalem under siege. As
the war raged, the Jewish popula-
tion was cut off. from supplies of
food and water. The situation grew
desperate, and on May 27 the
Jewish Quarter in the Old City sur-
rendered to the Arab Legion and
was evacuated. Dozens of Jewish
families, including some that had
lived in the Old City since the Mid-
dle Ages, were forced to leave.
By the time the cease fire was
proclaimed on June 1 1 , Jerusalem
was divided. The cease-fire line ran
north-south, with Jews on the west
and Arabs to the east. This meant
that the Jews held most of the city,
including the new neighborhoods
and suburbs. But the Arabs con-
trolled the Old Ciy, with its famous
holy places.
The U.N. continued to press for
internationalization, but in Decem-
ber 1948, Israel declared
Jerusalem the state's eternal capital.
Jordan, meanwhile, already had
annexed its portion of Jerusalem.
The line dividing the Israeli and Jor-
danian sides was marked by
barbed wire and stone walls. Dur-
ing the 19 years that Jerusalem was
a divided city, old Jewish neighbor-
hoods — now controlled by the
Arabs — underwent systematic
destruction. The Arab Legion Uor-
clan's army) wrecked almost all the
synagogues and yeshivot in the Old
City's Jewish Quarter. The Legion
toppled huncreds of tombstones in
the ancient Jewish cemetery on the
Mount of Olives and used the mon-
uments to build new barracks.
Some of the synagogues were used
as stables; others were turned into
latrines.
Later, the Jordanians allowed the
Intercontinental Hotel to build on the
Israelis rebuilt
the ruined
synagogues,
yeshivot and
houses.
Mount of Olives, and more Jewish
graves were desecrated.
Although the armistice agreement
called for Israel to have access to
Mount Scopus (upon which stood
the original building of the Hebrew
Universi -y and Hadassah Hospital),
as well as to Jewish holy places,
the Jordanians did not comply.
For Jerusalem in 1967, the Six-
Day War was actually a three-day
war. The fighting began Monday
morning, June 5, when the Jordani-
ans took over the U.N. building
and began shelling the Israeli side
of the city.
By Wednesday afternoon, June 7,
the Israeli forces controlled all of
Jerusalem. Israel immediately tore
down the barbed wire and the
walls and cleared the mine fields to
unite the two halves of the city.
Although official reunification was
declared June 28, 1967, the Israeli
government proclaimed Yom
Yerushalayim, Jerusalem Day, to be
observed on 28 lyar. This corre-
sponded to June 7, the day Israeli
forces conquered the city.
When Israeli soldiers entered
Jerusalem's Old City, the first place
they ran to was the -Kotel Maaravi,