TOUR NOVEMBER 2
Today we will have a very rare and fleeting privilege.
Ezra Yachin, 94 yrs old and clear of mind has agreed to receive us in his home in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of "Beit Chanina”
Mr. Yachin, the author of books, is the last living "Lechi '' fighter.
He took part in every step on the way to Jewish independence in our land. The pre-state struggle for independence from the British and the war of independence are alive and clear in his memory. He was at "Deir Yassin '' and other crucial sites and times of which volumes have been written. His is the last living testimony. We will hear it all firsthand.
We will proceed to "Ammunition Hill" the key battle site for the liberation of Jerusalem in the six-day war of 1967 and tour the famous site and Jordanian fortifications, One of the paratroopers who survived the night of hand-to-hand onslaught has agreed to share his memories and thoughts with us,
Finally, we will witness a site of poetic justice.
Haj Amin Husseini, Hitler's ally and the father of the "Palestinian " people owned a hotel and land in East Jerusalem. This property was purchased through a third party and today homes for many Jewish families are built there. His hotel will be a synagogue dedicated to the millions of Jewish children he helped murder in the Holocaust.
The people we meet today are the last of a breed of heroes.
Departure from the Inbal hotel at 10:00
Return approx 4:00
Cost: 200 shekels.
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