India, April 7 -- Jerusalem, which literally means "The City of Peace", has a history which perhaps no other city in the world has, riven as it has been through centuries and the present geography of the city is a little over half a century old when Israel decisively won the six-day war in 1967 and pushed out Jordan from the old and Eastern parts of the city. Till that date, the city, also Capital of the country, was divided in the middle with the old parts with Jordan and the newer parts with Israel. On that day, Jews had complete control of the city, Temple Mount and Western Wall, the holiest shrine for them, after almost 2000 years when the Romans had destroyed the temple and Jews had to flee the place to different parts of the world. Th...
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