A People Who Refuse to Forget Celebrate the Recapture of Jerusalem
The two Dov Gruners.
May 18, 2023
A People Who Refuse to Forget Celebrate the Recapture of Jerusalem
The two Dov Gruners.
Tonight begins Yom Yerushalayim, the anniversary on the Jewish calendar of the liberation of the Old City of Jerusalem during the Six-Day War. On that day in 1967, an IDF commander selected a young soldier named Dov Gruner to be the first to reach the Western Wall. He did so in recognition of another man with the same name, who had died for the Zionist cause after serving in the British army during World War II. Meir Soloveichik reflects on the legacy of the two Dov Gruners:
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