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Jul 30, 2019
1 Abraham Ferrera, Jerusalem, Israel
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LOT 110:

Photographs - Jerusalem after the Six Day War

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Photographs - Jerusalem after the Six Day War


10 photographs of Jews and Arabs after the conquest of the Western Wall in the Six-Day War.


In the photographs: Jews pray at the Western Wall (no separation between men and women. Three days after the war, the residents of the Mughrabi neighborhood were asked to evacuate the 135 houses in the neighborhood, including a mosque in the neighborhood, in order to level the area and establish a public square for the Western Wall worshipers). A temporary memorial monument commemorating the soldiers of Sayeret 75 (Of the Paratroopers Brigade 80, In the battles of Jerusalem, the commando unit operated under heavy fire. The heroic story of the fighter Israel Schindler from the commando unit at the height of the war on June 6 in the Battle of Gethsemane  was about to evacuate the injured under fire. He evacuated one wounded man and returned to evacuate another one. The wounded man's clothes burned and Schindler tried to extinguish the fire with his bare hands. During the evacuation they were shot, the wounded man was killed, and Schindler jumped from the bridge from a height of seven meters to a shelter. Stabbed in the leg and his hands burned, he came to the evacuation station on his own. He was awarded a commendation by the Chief of Staff, Lieutenant General Yitzhak Rabin, and was later converted to a medal of courage), A preliminary photograph of Yad Avshalom and the dirt path beside it (today a road), Arabs being evacuated on trucks, and more.

9x9 cm. Very fine condition.


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