Yfaat Weiss

It all started with the UN: in November 1947, the United Nations General Assembly adopted the plan to partition the British Mandate of Palestine – with the exception of Jerusalem. This city, to which all three monotheistic religions laid claim (and still do today), was to be entrusted to the UN. But the 1948 Arab–Israeli War thwarted this plan. Jerusalem was divided into east and west, with an...