Reunified Jerusalem: Twenty-Five Years and Counting

It has been 25 years since those battle-begrimed young paratroopers stood looking up at the Western Wall, the last artifact of the Herodian Temple. Their faces graphically mirrored the awe engendered in the heart of Jewry as they stood before the wall referred to by a prominent Israeli of that day as “our place of places.” There was a look of relief on their faces too, because on that day Jewr