Within These Walls Page #3

Jewish Quarter ready to fall,

the Holy Books are removed.

Jerusalem is a divided city.

For 19 years the Old City will

be ruled by Jordan.

In 1967, as the Six Day War rages,

Israeli paratroopers storm through

St. Stephen's Gate.

Defense Minister Moshe Dayan arrives

at the Western Wall...

in Jewish hands again for

the first time in 2,000 years.

According to ancient custom,

General Dayan writes a prayer

to place in the wall:

"May peace come to the Jewish people."

Today, a fragile peace reigns

in the Walled City.

The Supreme Muslim Council has remained

in charge of the Dome of

the Rock the Israelis

reclaimed the Western Wall,

cherished relic of their lost temple.

Jews from more than one hundred

cultural backgrounds

have come to live in their

ancient capital.

Many are Ashkenazi, from Europe

and the Americas;

the rest, Sephardic and Oriental Jews,

are from Mediterranean regions,

the Middle and Far East.

When the Jewish community in Yemen

heard of the establishment of Israel,

Joseph Zadok and his family decided

to emigrate immediately.

For them, the Biblical prophecy of

the return to Zion was fulfilled.

His grandson, Shalom, explains:

"My family knew from the Bible

and from our tradition that Jerusalem

was the Holy City.

When my family came from Yemen,

they wanted to live only in Jerusalem.

We call it center of the world."

Isolated in remote southern Arabia

for some 2,000 years,

persecuted by their Muslim rulers,

the Jews of Yemen had long dreamed

of redemption

in the promised land.

They clung to their beliefs,

and kept the ancient observances

in their purest form.

Now, celebrating Passover,

the Zadoks commemorate

the Jew's deliverance

from slavery in Egypt,

just ad Jesus did at what has come

to be known as "The Last Supper."

The Bible promised "They that wait

upon the Lord...

shall mount up with wings as eagles."

In 1949 the Zadoks joined the flood

of Jews

crossing hundred of miles

of desert on foot,

donkey back, and by truck to Aden.

Those who survived the

torturous journey

were flown to the Holy Land

by an airlift dubbed

"Operation Magic Carpet."

Restricted to certain

occupations in Yemen,

many Jews were shoemakers

weavers, jewelers.

Joseph Zadok was a court jeweler

for the King of Yemen.

"Our family has been making jewelry

for more than seven generations.

It is our heritage, our tradition.

When we came from Yemen,

we tried to keep our traditions."

"Most of the Yemenite brides

in Jerusalem

use our wedding dress and jewelry."

The bride, of European ancestry,

carries on her groom's

family tradition.

She wears the elaborate jewelry

and costume the Zakods lend

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