But much remains to be achieved for the conservation of the Old City of Jerusalem.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
And it claimed responsibility for the murder of several individual Jews around the Old City in Jerusalem since August 2001.
Two Polish tourists were injured by a pipe bomb at one of the entrances to Jerusalem's Old City.
Shrugging off blunt criticism on this score from Mrs Clinton, Mr Netanyahu earlier this year approved a Jewish building project in the heart of a Palestinian district close to Jerusalem's old city.
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Benedict began the day with a busy morning in Jerusalem's Old City, including meeting the patriarchs of the Greek Orthodox and Armenian Apostolic churches.
Israeli officials this week approved the demolition of a score of Arab homes in Jerusalem beneath the most contested ground in the occupied territories, the Old City's al-Aqsa shrine which the Palestinians prize as part of their hoped-for capital and Israel reveres as the Temple Mount.
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He may well accede next week to many of Mr. Arafat's demands on Jerusalem, including a Palestinian police force in the Old City -- not prudent if you want to prevent the place from becoming another Hebron.
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