Reunification of Jerusalem

The Reunification of Jerusalem refers to the June, 1967 reunification of Jerusalem following the conquest of half of the city - including the walled Old City - in 1948, and an illegal Jordanian occupation of the eastern part of the city that lasted for two decades.

The Reunification is celebrated as an Israeli national holiday, Jerusalem Day. The 50th anniversary of Reunification is being commemorate in 2017.

Jordan and an alliance of Arab states rejected the 1947 UN Partition Plan under which Jerusalem was to be a corpus separatum, choosing instead to invade and conquer the Old City and East Jerusalem, although the Arab invading armies failed to conquer West Jerusalem. The city was divided along the 1949 Armistice Line until Jordan chose to join a coalition of Arab states and invade Israel in the 1967 Six-Day War. Israeli victory resulted in the city's reunification.

The reunification is celebrated by the annual Jerusalem Day, and Israeli national holiday. However, special celebrations are planned in 2017 to mark the Jubilee of the 1967 reunification.

Under Jordanian occupation no Jews were permitted to live in the city, which was governed as part of the Jordanian occupied West Bank, and the Christian population plummeted, falling from 25,000 to 9,000.

Reunification ended the programmatic Islamization of Jerusalem by the government of Jordan, a policy that had included the destruction of dozens of synagogues; the imposition of Arabic-language, government-issued textbooks in Christian schools; a ban on teh purchase of property by churches; a ban on church funding of social and medical services, including hospitals; and a complete ban on visits to Jewish holy places by Jewish pilgrims.

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