Word: jerusalem
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...When I remember thee in time to come, O Jerusalem, it will not be with delight...The dreary deposits of 2,000 years filled with inhumanity, intolerance and filth lie in your evil-smelling alleys...
...aloft gleaming, unsheathed sabers. The metal coffin, encased in a wooden box and covered with a prayer shawl, was placed on a black bier and carried to a catafalque on the Mediterranean Promenade of Tel Aviv. At dawn a 300-car cortege followed the coffin to a hill outside Jerusalem which had been renamed the Givat Herzl (Herzl's Hill). In groups of ten, farmers, workers, businessmen, old settlers and new immigrants slowly walked by and emptied bags of earth into the grave. A rabbi read the Kaddish (prayer for the dead). Drums sounded. Then the great crowd, estimated...
...Jerusalem's Mount Zion, just outside the Old City, stands the towering white stone Church of the Dormition of Mary. Traditionally the place where the Blessed Virgin died, the site has long been one of the holy places of Christendom. In the Arab-Israeli fighting it has also been a prime military objective, last occupied by Israeli troops as a strategic outlook post...
...Aviv grocery store and asked him to come along for an important conference. They drove him to a schoolhouse in an abandoned Arab village. There, three Haganah officers charged him with furnishing his British superiors in the electric company with a list of important users of current in Jerusalem; that list, passed on to the Arabs, supposedly guided the Arab Legion's artillery fire to the city's most important targets...
Lena and her son Yaakov last week walked behind Meyer's coffin in solemn procession through Jerusalem, for Meyer Tobiansky was being reburied with military honors. His widow's hair had turned grey since last spring; her friends suddenly returned to her side, but she greeted them with unforgiving silence. She was bitter about the army and the press which had convicted and condemned her husband, but of Ben-Gurion she said: "He is a good...