50 years of reunification: Western Wall exhibition on Six-Day War opens
The "Touch the Moment" exhibition will present the moments, symbols and items from the emotional moment that the Western Wall was liberated and Jerusalem was unified in the Six-Day War.
The "Touch the Moment" exhibition, opening on Independence Day, will present the moments, symbols and items from the emotional moment when the Western Wall was liberated in the Six-Day War. The exhibition will be held at the Archaeological Park at the Davidson Center in the Jewish Quarter of the Old City.
Hundreds of submissions for items and testimonies related to the moment Jerusalem was unified were sent to the organizers of the exhibition. After an extensive screening process, the most exciting stories were chosen.
Eliezer Ansbacher, 85, a Holocaust survivor who immigrated to Israel in 1949 and fought in all of Israel's wars, decided to send the emergency draft order he received for the Six-Day War.
"I kept the order, and only then did I realize how significant it was," Eliezer told Yedioth Ahronoth.
Other authentic items in the exhibition include the shofar used by Rabbi Shlomo Goren at the Western Wall at the moment of the declaration, a copy of Naomi Shemer's song "Jerusalem of Gold", maps of the entrance to the Old City during the war and more.
Shlomit Etzeva, curator of the exhibition, said, "The purpose of the exhibition is to perpetuate this moment, which changed the reality of all of us."
