A paratrooper's account of liberating the Kotel

24 May 2023

UIA celebrated Yom Yerushalayim with Alan Jackson, a paratrooper who fought in Jerusalem during the Six Day War in 1967.

Gary Max from J-Air recorded Alan’s story.

Listen to Alan’s account about the battle for Jerusalem and the Kotel.

 

Alan Jackson
Soldiers surround then-IDF Chief Rabbi Shlomo Goren as he blows a shofar at the Kotel in Jerusalem’s Old City on 7 June 1967.
Alan Jackson is on the right (Bamahane Magazine/Defence Ministry’s IDF Archive)

 

Alan Jackson
Paratroopers surround then-IDF Chief Rabbi Shlomo Goren at the Kotel on 7 June 1967. (Micha Bar-Am/Defence Ministry’s IDF Archive)