About half an hour after midnight, the journey began: Minister Naftali Bennett launched the first 'Jerusalem Night with Bennett.' He expected a few dozen people, but thousands arrived. He claimed, 4,000.
During the journey, the minister who led the journey stopped at all the paratroopers' landmarks and told anecdotes from the war. He told the story of the paratroopers who reached Sheikh Jarrah and liberated the tomb of Shimon the Righteous, after the heavy fighting on Ammunition Hill, and from there began a quick drive towards the ancient city.
Near the large monument commemorating the fallen paratroopers from the 28th Battalion, Bennett told the story of soldier Shimon Getz, the 14th, the only son of the Western Wall rabbi, Rabbi Yehuda Getz, who was also killed in the war.
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Near the new gate, Bennett told the story of the nun who stood one day in the window of the Rotterdam Monastery, looking out over Jordanian territory. Her dentures fell down into Jordanian territory, while the monastery was in Israeli territory. A day and a half of discussions and the intervention of UN forces succeeded in returning her teeth from Jordanian territory to Israeli territory.
Near the Jaffa Gate, the youth, together with Bennett, formed one large circle and sang songs of Jerusalem.
The police who secured the event, which passed without incident, prohibited the procession from passing through the section between the Consulate and the Nablus Gate inside the Arab neighborhood. This apparently proved that the mission of the Six-Day War to unify all of Jerusalem was not yet complete.
Ultra-Orthodox photographer 10 with photos from the trip.
