Uzi Narkiss, Moshe Dayan, and Yitzhak Rabin approach the Western Wall
On July 7, 1967, at 8:30 a.m., Israeli
Defense Force paratroopers launched a three-pronged assault on
Jerusalem from the hills surrounding the city taken from the Jordanians
in the previous two days of fighting. Israeli Colonel Motta Gur led his
battallion into the Old City through St. Stephen's Gate where they met
little resistance. Climbing to the Temple Mount, the holiest site in
Judaism, Gur radioed a message to Israeli commanders stating "The
Temple Mount is in our hands."