"From a vantage point near the Western Wall, I could see the Porat Yosef synagogue soaring above the city. The Porat Yosef synagogue, with its adjoining Talmudic schools and academy, was disintegrating behind billows of smoke. The massive walls were coming down in a rising torrent of stone debris. I wondered how much TNT the Arab Liberation Army would waste in order to grind this place of learning to dust. For the 11 days that followed, the documentation of the destruction of the Jewish Quarter was the focus of my life.” |
