What It Was Like to Liberate the Old City: The Six Day War: fifty years
A third generation Jerusalemite tells of life in Jerusalem and his personal experience liberating the Jewish quarter during the opening days of the war.
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Gideon Biger was an officer in Battalion 163 of the Jerusalem Brigade in the 6-Day War, which liberated the suburb of Abu-Tor and were the first to enter the Jewish Quarter of the Old City, via the Dung Gate. Prof. Biger was born in Jerusalem in 1945, served in the Israel Defence Force (IDF) 1963-1971, Israeli Air Force (IAF) 1966-1969, and later in the Education Unit, as a Major. He received his Ph.D. in Historical Geography from the Hebrew University, 1979, and from 1980 taught at Tel Aviv University.
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My Jerusalem I appreciate everything you said but we have to remember we did not win Hashem did. My first fiancé fell in that battle. He died on kiddush Hashem. It is the one above who gives us the right to live here. This is the land Hashem gave us. Not the Brits or the UN or the US. But G-d gave it to us Alizah Hochstead