JERUSALEM on EARTH by Abraham Rabinovich

Author:Abraham Rabinovich
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Primary Publishing
Published: 2014-09-14T16:00:00+00:00

On a winter day in 1972, Israel Radio’s Arabic station broadcast a special message to ex-Jerusalem Mayor Ruhi el-Khatib in Amman, informing him of his mother’s death in Jerusalem and advising him that he would be permitted to attend her funeral the following day. Khatib, who was mayor of Jordanian Jerusalem during the Six Day War, had been expelled a year later for incitement.

The mother’s body was carried the next day from the Temple Mount to the Muslim cemetery outside Lion’s Gate. For two hours the mourners waited beside the open grave for Khatib to come. Israeli officers stood by at the Jordan River bridges past closing time in order to rush him to Jerusalem. But the void was too deep for him to cross and his mother was laid to rest in his absence.

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