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Rabbi Doron Perez The of Creation REMARKABLE DAYS THAT CHANGED THE COURSE OF HISTORY
he six days from June 5 to June to attack, their unexpected entry into The great Biblical prophets had pre- 10, 1967 are without parallel in the war precipitated the Jewish peo- dicted both the return to Israel and the story of human warfare. ple’s return to the holy and ancient the rebuilding of Jerusalem in scores T city of Jerusalem, the Kotel and the of ancient prophecies – an integral The sensational speed and brevity Temple Mount for the first time in part of the Messianic drama and the of the war, the sudden and startling almost 2,000 years. Jewish people’s historic mission. In drastic twists, its seemingly super- six short days, they touched on the natural features, the remarkable The sovereign return of the Jewish essence of their existence and caught reunification of Jerusalem, and the people to Jerusalem was a spiritual a glimpse of the end of the story. totally unforeseen new political real- and politi