But much remains to be achieved for the conservation of the Old City of Jerusalem.
He did not live long enough to see his dream of a city of Jerusalem shared on peace, the capital of Israel and the capital of Palestine.
When the Israel Defense Forces took the Old City of Jerusalem from the Jordanian Army, a platoon commander sent a jeep to bring Kook to the Western Wall.
Host Leone Lakhani strolls along the ramparts of the wall surrounding the old city of Jerusalem, a place of enormous spiritual and cultural significance for Jews, Christians and Muslims alike.
The fact that the West Bank was home to the major biblical sites the old city of Jerusalem, the tomb of the patriarchs in Hebron, Rachel's tomb in Bethlehem added to the sensation of a divine guiding hand.
Professor Khalili has been awarded various honours, which include Trustee of the City of Jerusalem, an Honorary Degree of Doctor of Humane Letters from Boston University, and Knight Commander of the Royal Order of Francis I (KCFO).
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Clinton and Hastert's telephone conversation took place as Israeli and Palestinian negotiators engaged in another day of long and difficult talks aimed at forging a lasting peace and permanent division of territory, with their arduous talks at Camp David reportedly stalled over the issue of the final status of the city of Jerusalem.
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The three sovereign states of Israel, Palestine and the city-state of Jerusalem would elect their own legislatures and representatives to a federal parliament.
As Shaar Haguy in 1948 and Beit Jalla in 2000 showed, with foreign forces on the outskirts of the city, Jerusalem is cut off from the rest of the country.
For much of its first 100 years, the city stood in the shadow of nearby Jerusalem, unable to compete with the capital's holy sites and history.
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The idea of a Nazi-Islamic alliance dates back to World War II, when Adolf Hitler played host to the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, that city's Muslim leader.
In 2001 he covered the chaotic funeral of Palestinian leader Faisal Husseini in Jerusalem's Old City when Israeli troops fired tear gas at a group of Palestinian youths.
Al-Aqsa mosque is in the heart of Jerusalem's old city, alongside sites also considered amongst the holiest by Jews and Christians.
On the 24th, Christmas Eve, we have a big celebration welcoming the parade of the Patriarchate of Jerusalem, our twin city, entering from this road.
Police said the incident happened outside the Damascus Gate entrance of Jerusalem's Old City last week, when about 80 Palestinians were having a snowball fight.
When, as part of the implementation of the Oslo peace process with the PLO, the government of Israel allowed for an Arab armed force to be deployed on the outskirts of the city, fear returned to Jerusalem.
It was from this gauntlet that the British-commanded Jordan Legion sought - with the help of the Arabs of Jerusalem and surrounding villages - to cut the Jews of the city off from the rest of the country and so to conquer the nascent Jewish state.
Barkat has a vision of setting up a council of metropolitan Jerusalem that will involve the heads of the Jewish communities around the city in its overall development plans.
Among other reasons, King David chose Jerusalem as his capital city because of its strategic importance.
The Israelis had an independent commonwealth in the Land of Israel, and their capital city was Jerusalem.
And it claimed responsibility for the murder of several individual Jews around the Old City in Jerusalem since August 2001.
Given that it is election season, and then-candidate Obama's stated support for Jerusalem as Israel's capital in 2008, the Obama administration could reasonably have made its own endorsement of Jerusalem as Israel's capital city.
The idea was for two states on either side of the 1967 border, with land swaps providing for the biggest Israeli settlement blocks to stay within Israel and for a political partition of Jerusalem into two capitals within one city.
In March, Israel announced plans to build 600 homes in East Jerusalem, as part of the Jerusalem mayor's initiative to construct 40, 000 homes throughout the city to ease the housing plight of young couples.
Two Polish tourists were injured by a pipe bomb at one of the entrances to Jerusalem's Old City.
But the saving grace of Jerusalem is that it is also a city.
As for Jerusalem, literally every inch of the city holds physical proof of the Jewish people's historical claims to the city.
The Palestinian officials describe the talks about Jerusalem as difficult and have said it would be almost impossible to put Jerusalem aside since the future of the city is tied to so many of the other "core" issues such as borders, settlements, and security.
The pope's obvious recognition of the danger jihadist Islam constitutes for Christians puts the Vatican, under his leadership, in a position where it could be more interested than it was in the past in working with Israel to secure the Christian holy sites in Jerusalem by supporting Israeli control of the city.
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And it stresses that Jerusalem, a city with a current Muslim population of about 280, 000, "will always be the undivided capital of Israel".
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