Photographs of the New Gate near 1900-1920.
The New Gate (Arabic: Bab al-Jedid Hebrew: HaSha'ar HaChadash) is the most recently built gate in the Old City of Jerusalem was built in 1898 to facilitate access to the Christian Quarter. Before Hammid Gate was named in honor of the Ottoman Sultan Abdul Hamid II. The door is located on the northwest side of the wall surrounding the Old City.
The door was closed during the Arab-Israeli war of 1948 when Jordan captured East Jerusalem (which includes the Old City of Jerusalem). It was reopened again in 1967 after Israel's capture of East Jerusalem during the Six-Day War.
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Broadcasting says decision to enforce complaints against the Middle East editor to 'serious damage' to the BBC's global image, the BBC Trust's decision to uphold complaints against Middle East editor Jeremy Bowen has the potential to be "serious damage" to the corporation of international reputation, according to the broadcaster Jonathan Dimbleby. Last month the BBC Trust accepted full or ... - The Christian Science Monitor via Yahoo! News
The May 18 meeting between President Obama and the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is crucial for both countries. American-Israeli relations at risk of deterioration of the lowest point since Dwight Eisenhower ordered Israeli troops to evacuate Sinai in 1956 an event that has contributed to the 1967 Six-Day War. The summit, the relations between these two democracies for the duration of ... - The Lebanon Daily Star
Pope Benedict a personal and powerful condemnation of the Holocaust on Friday, vowing the Israelis that the brutal extermination of the Jews by the "wicked" Nazi regime would never be forgotten or denied. His language appeared to eliminate the Jewish dismay about previous comments about the murder of six million Jews by his fellow Germans. - J Weekly
M nchen, Germany After three decades of fighting in court, John Demjanjuk was deported from the United States and the prison on May 12 in a German jail, to face charges of accessory to the murder of 29,000 Jews and others as a Nazi guard at the Sobibor death camp.
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